(TheBRHM.com) In the 1980s, heavy metal really made use of emerging music videos to add visuals to their tunes. I also like that music videos remove some of the mystery and vagueness of some songs by showing the story or referencing imagery from the song. Sure, many artists leave their ...

(TheBRHM.com) Blues music is dead, they said. This is the modern era, they echoed. Such notions are as absurd as a moon made of cheese. The modern blues scene doesn’t only live on. It flourishes with the same spontaneity that’s normally exclusive to infants. Today’s blues connoisseurs are a battalion ...

(TheBRHM.com) Let’s get into another wave of heavy metal in the “New Wave of Thrash Metal”. This wave came along in the late 90s-early 2000s following an odd downturn in quality albums from major thrash metal bands. Thrash Metal In the Early 90s There was this odd period in metal ...

(TheBRHM.com) So, back in 2021, we featured three albums to check out before Darkthrone released Eternal Hails….Now we’ll look at a classic album from a band considered to be an inspiration on Darkthrone’s early sound. This is the 1984 self-titled debut by Bathory.   What is Bathory? Bathory was a ...

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(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) In 1975, Hall of Famers AC/DC dropped a double dose of Australian hard rock. I gave the debut album High Voltage a listen and figured “Well, High Voltage is right there. Might as well.” So, instead of a “Greatest Debut Album,” we’re looking at the 1970s releases and seeing ...

(TheBRHM.com) I had gone through the 1970s AC/DC albums and finished taking notes on Highway to Hell but knew 1980’s Back in Black was right there. Featuring new lead singer—well, new at the time—Brian Johnson and the electric approach to hard rock that the band was known for, this had ...

(TheBRHM.com) Welcome to another “Greatest Album Debuts” where we look at debut albums that either caught my attention or are generally beloved. Many of them are albums I checked out when I began listening to metal—such as our featured album 1981’s Too Fast for Love from Mötley Crüe. When it ...

(TheBRHM.com) I’ve discussed it before as far as comics are concerned but Judas Priest has created enough characters on its albums to spin that out into sci-fi lore. I’m certain I’m not the first to mention this, hell it had to be obvious to the band during its most marketable ...

(TheBRHM.com) Guns N’ Roses is a band that gave me some trouble while doing this edition of ‘Best of the Decade’. It’s a band known for some classic bangers and albums but strife among the band members—as well as partaking in whatever devilment suited their fancy—meant that the discography output ...

(TheBRHM.com) While diving into metal in the late 2000s, I ran into a lot of new thrash—or retro thrash, thrash revival—as well as some speed metal revival bands. Some of these bands featured members from black metal bands or who had a background or influences in black metal and maybe ...

(TheBRHM.com) On October 21, 2024, the world of metal, music, and entertainment lost a vocal legend in 64-year-old Paul Di’Anno. Hailing from London, England, Di’Anno arrived on the scene as the lead singer for Iron Maiden between 1978 and 1981. Like Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, and Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Iron ...