(TheBRHM.com) Somewhere past the six minute stretch of Sleep‘s “Dopesmoker,” a track that rolls on for over an hour, the whole idea reveals itself. Almost nothing has shifted. That is the design. A riff loops, sags, bends, and breathes, and if you can settle into that groove without your thumb ...
(TheBRHM.com) By the middle of March 2020 the entire live circuit had just seized up. Took maybe two weeks. There was a virus spreading across the world by then, and governments started padlocking anything that drew a crowd, so the clubs closed, and the arenas closed, and the festival fields ...
(TheBRHM.com) Every origin story wants a clean starting line, and the one heavy metal tells on itself usually points to Black Sabbath’s self-titled debut, unleashed in February 1970 with Tony Iommi’s ominous tritone announcing that something darker had arrived. Tidy tale. Also missing a chapter. Because a solid five years ...
(TheBRHM.com) Every genre keeps a canon, and heavy metal guards its own with near religious fervor. Iron Maiden gets the arenas. Judas Priest owns the leather and the reverence. Accept earned credit for welding precision onto aggression before half the world caught up. And then there is a name that ...
(TheBRHM.com) I have loved heavy music since long before I understood why it gripped me the way it did. Blasted Sabbath through cheap headphones on the school bus. Taught myself the riff to Ace of Spades before I could legally drive. So when I speak on the culture, know that ...
(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) 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) During VH1’s 2006 “Metal Month”, the network ran several documentaries and a few films such as Spinal Tap and Rock Star. It was a given that I was going to enjoy Spinal Tap and at the time I thought Rock Star was something entertaining to watch. Having watched it ...
(TheBRHM.com) Nu-metal was an odd wave of rock music. As with any wave, you’ll have bands that really standout and are the best representatives of the sound. Then you have the bands that make up the rest and are decent at best. Bands are included or considered as nu-metal tend ...
(TheBRHM.com) We’re diving into the band Skunk Anansie headed up lead singer and guitarist Skin (Deborah Anne Dyer). Established London in 1994, the band called it quits in 2001 before reforming in 2008. In 1999, the band dropped its third album Post Orgasmic Chill. This is the album that turned ...