(TheBRHM.com) I’m a fan of those 80s Canadian metal bands such as thrashers Razor, Voivod, and Strappado but we’re going to get into a band we’ve touch on with Thor. The band goes back to 1973 as Centaur and began playing under the Thor name in 1977. Centered around the ...
(TheBRHM.com) While looking around on Apple Music for some older power metal to listen to, I noticed that Jag Panzer were missing their 1984 debut Ample Destruction and the 1994 release Dissident Alliance. Now, there was an album that was recorded in 1987 but that wasn’t released until 2004 as ...
(TheBRHM.com) While listening to Invincible Shield, I realized that I hadn’t done a review or album dive into Redeemer of Souls or Firepower for The Black Rock and Heavy Metal. Now, I find it very easy—and even relaxing—to look at older albums from decades ago and decide what albums were ...
(TheBRHM.com) This time we’re looking at extremely strong debuts! We’ll start with a band we’ve discussed a bit before in Blind Guardian with their 1988 debut Battalions of Fear. What Type of Vibe Is Blind Guardian? To be honest, there are different vibes with Blind Guardian’s music. It can depend ...
(TheBRHM.com) Let’s go a little more modern with a great debut album from the past eight years. This time it’s Burn the Night, the 2019 debut from Riot City. What Kind of Vibe is Riot City? At first, I was thinking “Wow, Riot City gives me Riot vibes.” Riot is ...
(TheBRHM.com) Among 1980s hard rock and heavy metal bands with either an entirely Black roster or featuring Black band members of some tenure, a few bands immediately come to mind. There’s Hirax headed up by Katon W. de Pena. You also have Black Death out of Ohio, New York City’s ...
(TheBRHM.com) German band Sacred Steel dropped their tenth album Ritual Supremacy in late April 2025 and we’re going to check it out by look at the A-side and B-side separately, highlighting the standout tracks on both sides, and looking at the strength of the opening track—the first impression. A-Side of ...
(TheBRHM.com) I touched on Three, a Cleveland-based band featuring Black Death singer Siki Spacek in his usual roles as vocalists and guitarist. Is it a continuation of Black Death Resurrected and Black Death? Not exactly, but with Siki’s involvement, you’ll notice a lot of the two aforementioned bands’ influences on ...
(TheBRHM.com) Stone Vengeance is an all-Black thrash band out of the Bay Area that formed in 1978. The band has kept the same line-up of Michael Coffey on guitar, Anthony Starks on bass, and Darren Tompkins on drums with Coffey doing primary lead vocal duties, Tompkins often in the backup ...
(TheBRHM.com) In the latter part of the 1980s, thrash was thriving in the U.S and Germany. These were the two main regions I’d hear about in my introduction to old school metal but it wasn’t unusual to hear about bands from the UK, Canada, and Brazil. Canada’s metal scene at ...