(TheBRHM.com) Angel Witch never got their due, and that has bothered me for forty years. The London band recorded a debut in 1980 that most metalheads now count among the defining records of the new wave of British heavy metal. Iron Maiden came up in that same wave. So did ...
(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) Serious students of heavy music tend to agree on a lineage. Black Sabbath conjured the darkness. Deep Purple supplied the velocity and the roar. Judas Priest bolted on the leather and the twin guitar assault, and Iron Maiden lifted the whole enterprise toward opera. Recite that bloodline in any ...
(TheBRHM.com) Funny how a whole group shrinks down to a single tune. Bring up Thin Lizzy at a cookout and watch it happen, somebody grins, hums the one about the boys strolling back into town, and figures that settles it. Great tune, no argument. Treating a single hit as the ...
(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) Somewhere between the endless hunt for the next big thing and the tired grumble that nothing good gets made anymore, two groups from different corners of America have been doing something quietly radical. They stopped chasing. Sumerlands out of Philadelphia and Eternal Champion out of Austin looked at the ...
(TheBRHM.com) Here in 2026, most people still meet these four through a six minute operatic swan dive, all piano and mock Galileo and a headbanging coda that soundtracks car commercials and karaoke meltdowns. Fair enough. That song rewrote what a single could be. But it also buried something. Long before ...
(TheBRHM.com) Most of us shelve AC/DC under hard rock, and the purists have a strong case for keeping them there. Walk into any shop that still sells the physical stuff and you’ll likely find the Youngs tucked into hard rock, exactly where Angus wanted them. He didn’t reach for a ...
(TheBRHM.com) Rock bands are supposed to fall apart. That is more or less built into the job the second real money shows up. One guy develops a habit. Another decides he wrote all the good parts and everybody else is dead weight. A manager skims, a lawyer gets involved, and ...
(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 ...