(TheBRHM.com) Genre labels tend to outlive the accuracy that earned them, and no American act has lived more comfortably inside an incomplete label, or profited from it more handsomely, than Van Halen. Ask a room full of purists and half of them will swear those four dudes out of Pasadena ...
(TheBRHM.com) Aerosmith engineered one of the strangest comebacks in American music, and hardly anybody frames it as a cautionary tale. Eleven years separate Permanent Vacation from the moment this band finally scored a number one single, and across that stretch an outfit the industry had written off became a permanent ...
(TheBRHM.com) There is a persistent myth in music writing that says loud guitars were dying in 1987 and five degenerates from Hollywood arrived to resuscitate them, which is a nice story that happens to be false in almost every detail. Guitars were doing just fine. You could not escape them. ...
(TheBRHM.com) Every time somebody in the group chat drops that “greatest rock composition ever” take, they reach for the same six minutes. Mama, just killed a man. Scaramouche. The headbang scene in Wayne’s World. I get it. I grew up with it too, and I’m not about to sit here ...
(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) 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) 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 ...
(TheBRHM.com) We’re getting into a bit of hard rock for “Greatest Album Debuts” with the 1973 self-titled release by Queen. On this release, you’ll get a mix of 70s hard rock and progressive rock but the prog element when mixed with that hard rock gives us something similar to speed ...
(TheBRHM.com) I often dive into funk, quiet storm, trap and something of the Latin persuasion when I’m not listening to rock and heavy metal. When you take in different genres, it’s not usual to see influences of some act on another or elements from one genre having a home in ...