(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 ...
(TheBRHM.com) We haven’t had a Head 2 Head on here in a while! Let’s look at the three debuts of three metal legends from the same period in Motörhead, Black Sabbath, and Judas Priest. All of these debuts come in the 1970s with Sabbath’s being the earliest and best known ...
(TheBRHM.com) What are some of your favorite lyrical themes in metal? I use Encyclopedia Metallum a lot for my reviews as it’s cleaner than Wikipedia when it comes to getting the information I need such as album release dates and track listings. Of course, if I want the history of ...
(TheBRHM.com) I often find myself asking “What happened?” while listening thrash metal releases from the late 1980s to early 1990s. If you’re a long-time metalhead then you know that time period in relation to thrash, it was a pretty good period but the good times wouldn’t last. You could say ...