(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) 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 ...
(TheBRHM.com) Bring up Hendrix and folks reach for the tie-dye first. The scarves. That burning guitar at Monterey. Flowers in the hair, incense curling through some California afternoon in 1967. That picture stuck, and it flattened him. What got buried underneath all the soft-focus mythology was the pure menace in ...
(TheBRHM.com) Somewhere along the way the story got sanded down. The Beatles became the tidy soundtrack of your grandmother’s china cabinet, all handclaps and moon and June couplets, something you hum in an elevator without anyone flinching. That picture is a lie of omission. Buried in the catalog runs a ...
(TheBRHM.com) Somewhere along the way a lot of critics decided who Bruce Springsteen was and quit paying attention. They handed the man a uniform. Blue collar poet. Bard of the assembly line. The voice of some guy clocking out at the plant with grease under his fingernails and a mortgage ...