(TheBRHM.com) Walk into any argument about the titans of heavy music and someone always reaches for a sales figure. Platinum plaques, chart peaks, stadium gates, the full scorecard of commerce. That scorecard lies far more often than it tells the truth. A handful of the most vital names in this ...
(TheBRHM.com) In a recent Drumeo clip, Ray Luzier’s drum tech Mark Bennett held up a discontinued Pearl Copper Free Floating snare and let a secret slip. That copper drum, he explained almost offhand, is what Luzier used while tracking the new Korn record. Fourteen albums in and now working on ...
(TheBRHM.com) Forty years is a long time for anything to stay dangerous. Most records that old have softened into nostalgia by now, the kind of thing you nod along to at a cookout while somebody younger asks who these guys even are. Then there’s the heavy metal monster Slayer let ...
(TheBRHM.com) Somebody always ends up holding the short straw. In every gang of legends there’s the name spoken last, with a touch less reverence, the one folks nod at politely before circling right back to the heavy hitters. For the better part of forty years that role landed on five ...
(TheBRHM.com) The 2000s was period that saw a lot of more modern thrash bands put out their early works. You had some that went the extended demo route of releasing several demos and splits in the early 2000s before dropping their debut. Then you had those who ran one or ...
(TheBRHM.com) Most bands that chase reinvention lose the thread and come out sounding like somebody else entirely. Mastodon spent twenty odd years morphing and never once stopped sounding like Mastodon. Go back to their 2002 arrival with Remission. Nobody hearing that thing would have bet a nickel on where this ...
(TheBRHM.com) Some singers step to a microphone and you believe them. That was the whole trick with Ronnie James Dio, except it wasn’t a trick at all. When he sang about a rider crossing a burning desert, you saw the horse. When he warned you about the thing waiting in ...
(TheBRHM.com) Heavy metal was not dead in 1995. It was becoming more dangerous. The verdict came down hard in 1994 and 1995. Grunge had eaten rock radio alive. Flannel showed up where leather used to hang, and the folks who once handed Headbangers Ball its late-night slot just went quiet ...
(TheBRHM.com) Something cracked open in the summer of 1991, and you felt it before you could explain it. “Enter Sandman” came slinking out of car speakers with that heavy, dragging riff, and all of a sudden the guys who used to live on the fringes were sitting right there in ...
(TheBRHM.com) Some voices you recognize inside two seconds. Three rooms away, dishes running, somebody talking over the stereo, and still that wail cuts clean through and you know exactly who owns it. Ozzy had one of those. Not pretty in the trained sense. Never powerful the way opera measures power. ...