(TheBRHM.com) Every genre keeps a canon. This one guards its like a family heirloom, maybe tighter. Ask somebody where the music came from and you’ll get six names, tops, said in the lowered voice folks save for church. Fine. But notice who never makes that list and something starts to ...
(TheBRHM.com) Every genre eventually has to reckon with its own history, but few have let that history calcify quite like heavy metal has. For a style built on rebellion and volume and the refusal to sit still, the modern fanbase has grown strangely comfortable, strangely protective, strangely allergic to anything ...
(TheBRHM.com) There is a band whose name belongs in every serious conversation about American heavy metal, and most people have never heard it. They had everything the moment demanded. And the world still slept on them. Not because they lacked the goods, but because four Black men plugged in and ...
(TheBRHM.com) There are certain bands whose influence runs far deeper than their record sales ever suggested, and Black Death belongs near the top of that list. Long before the rest of us had the language to describe what they were doing, four young men out of Cleveland were quietly rewriting ...
(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) 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 ...
(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) We’ve touched on the late Thin Lizzy lead singer and bass player Phil Lynott several times. Now, it’s time for an ultimate list! Here are five greatest Thin Lizzy songs that cemented Lynott’s name in Black rock and heavy metal. Most of these songs are from the band’s hot ...