(TheBRHM.com) The distance between what Mötley Crüe swore in public and what the group eventually started selling at the merch table has stretched wide enough by now to qualify as the defining fact of their late career. Table needs setting first, though. My records never sorted themselves properly. Shout at ...

(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) Certain records demand to be reconsidered, and the four acts I want to lay out here have waited long enough for their due. Growing up, I was the one kid on the block whose speakers didn’t fit the profile. Folks expected one thing rolling out of my window and ...

(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) Pick any argument about when heavy music grew up and somebody will eventually say 1986, then fold their arms like the matter is settled. They have a point. Squeeze the twelve months of that year together and you get a stretch of albums so strong that the groups who ...