(TheBRHM.com) Guns N’ Roses is a band that gave me some trouble while doing this edition of ‘Best of the Decade’. It’s a band known for some classic bangers and albums but strife among the band members—as well as partaking in whatever devilment suited their fancy—meant that the discography output ...
(TheBRHM.com) While diving into metal in the late 2000s, I ran into a lot of new thrash—or retro thrash, thrash revival—as well as some speed metal revival bands. Some of these bands featured members from black metal bands or who had a background or influences in black metal and maybe ...
(TheBRHM.com) On October 21, 2024, the world of metal, music, and entertainment lost a vocal legend in 64-year-old Paul Di’Anno. Hailing from London, England, Di’Anno arrived on the scene as the lead singer for Iron Maiden between 1978 and 1981. Like Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Iron ...
(TheBRHM.com) We’re going ‘Into the Mailbag’ again as we look at the comments for our piece on Kiss’ self-titled debut! Kiss is a band that I could take or leave. When the hits are played, you know the hits and their compilation albums tend to be extremely fun listens because ...
(TheBRHM.com) It’s spring 2006 and VH1 is heavy into its reality television bag. By this time, the network had gotten its mitts on The Surreal Life, the blueprint show for what would be an onslaught of reality shows where celebrities or those interested in dating the celebrity stay in a ...
(TheBRHM.com) Let’s go back a few years to the summer of 2006. I was 21 and had a little familiarity with heavy metal through my dad listening to hard rock and some metal. He’s more of an Elton John, Frank Zappa, AC/DC, and Blondie guy—a lot of stuff that you’d ...
(TheBRHM.com) There are some comments that I’d love to answer in a mailbag setting and I have a couple I’m working on that I feel should have a detailed answer. Plus, long answers in comments sections lead to this unholy wall of text. So, in our first “Into the Mailbag” ...
(TheBRHM.com) In metal, the live album still has a place of reverence. They’re like the blend between a full-length release and a compilation only with an audience. It’s something I would’ve loved to have seen adopted in hip-hop or R&B. We seen live performances regularly but only recently have we ...
(TheBRHM.com) Let’s get into another classic debut album and see what stands out the most with Holy Diver by Dio. Now, Dio was the solo act of Ronnie James Dio, a powerful lead singer who was known for heading up Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow and Black Sabbath. I’d say it was ...
(TheBRHM.com) During the early-mid 1980s, there was a shake-up in the Los Angeles metal scene which saw several thrash bands and future thrash artists leave the area for San Francisco, forming the Bay Area Thrash scene. It kind of gave Los Angeles the reputation for being the home of glam ...