(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) There is a conversation that never seems to die in metal circles, and it comes right back the second anybody says Big Four. For the newcomers, that title means Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax. Four bands, crowned as the faces of American thrash. Should it have been the Big ...
(TheBRHM.com) Drop the needle on Rust in Peace and about ninety seconds in you’ll get everything worth knowing about Megadeth. None of it has a thing to do with Metallica. I figured that out young, back when I was a Black kid falling hard for heavy metal and making it ...
(TheBRHM.com) Few loyalties in music run as deep, or defy logic as boldly, as the bond between a metalhead and the band that raised him. Let me tell you something I figured out standing in a pit at sixteen, one of maybe three brothers in a sea of denim and ...
(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) This music had me before I had the words to explain why, and the band has held my attention long enough that honesty about them feels earned rather than borrowed. So here is the truth of it. A Brother who came up on loud guitars, often the only face ...
(TheBRHM.com) 3 Inches of Blood is a Canadian power metal act from British Columbia known for their fast tempo of use of two vocalists. That was probably the main thing that gave 3IOB that little extra umph. In each of their full length releases the act always had the goods ...
(TheBRHM.com) Some records you listen to. A few of them hit you. Back in Black did the second thing to me before I even understood what was happening. Somewhere in my teenage years, standing over my uncle’s milk crate of vinyl, flipping through it, and I slid that one out ...
(TheBRHM.com) Let me set the scene for you. I’m sixteen, headphones busted on one side, volume shoved way past any safe level, and the opening of Battery comes creeping out the speaker all gentle and Spanish guitar pretty. Then the riff drops and my whole spine snaps straight. I had ...
(TheBRHM.com) At the time of this piece, the 20th anniversary of VH1’s “Metal Month” would’ve just passed. You could also look at it as a way to use all those music videos and films that weren’t aired on VH1 Classic at the time. Maybe it was a vehicle for their ...