(TheBRHM.com) The distance between what Mötley Crüe swore in public and what the group eventually started selling at the merch table has stretched wide enough by now to qualify as the defining fact of their late career. Table needs setting first, though. My records never sorted themselves properly. Shout at ...
(TheBRHM.com) There is a persistent myth in music writing that says loud guitars were dying in 1987 and five degenerates from Hollywood arrived to resuscitate them, which is a nice story that happens to be false in almost every detail. Guitars were doing just fine. You could not escape them. ...
(TheBRHM.com) Certain records demand to be reconsidered, and the four acts I want to lay out here have waited long enough for their due. Growing up, I was the one kid on the block whose speakers didn’t fit the profile. Folks expected one thing rolling out of my window and ...
(TheBRHM.com) Pick any argument about when heavy music grew up and somebody will eventually say 1986, then fold their arms like the matter is settled. They have a point. Squeeze the twelve months of that year together and you get a stretch of albums so strong that the groups who ...
(TheBRHM.com) Something’s been eating at me lately. It’s one of those questions that won’t leave me alone once it shows up, and it shows up every time somebody puts these two names next to each other. I have had this argument my whole life. Barbershops. Parking lots after shows. Text ...
(TheBRHM.com) Metal circles have been repeating something for thirty years without checking it. Pantera invented groove metal, they say. Nah. Anybody who tells you that either was not listening close or was not listening long. Exhorder was down in New Orleans developing that slow, mean, swaggering attack on late eighties ...
(TheBRHM.com) There is a habit in music writing of filing a band away the moment it becomes convenient, and few bands got filed more carelessly than the one Lemmy Kilmister ran for forty years. Say the name in most rooms and you get the same reflex answer. Heavy metal. Loud, ...
(TheBRHM.com) It’s not unusual to see bands with a past they tend to not acknowledge or don’t include in their discographies. Part of this is that the band becomes so associated or known with a sound or genre that those early albums or that transitional album has to go into ...
(TheBRHM.com) There is a band whose name belongs in every serious conversation about American heavy metal, and most people have never heard it. They had everything the moment demanded. And the world still slept on them. Not because they lacked the goods, but because four Black men plugged in and ...
(TheBRHM.com) There are certain bands whose influence runs far deeper than their record sales ever suggested, and Black Death belongs near the top of that list. Long before the rest of us had the language to describe what they were doing, four young men out of Cleveland were quietly rewriting ...