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(TheBRHM.com) We’re looking at a band from the “thrash revival” era in Merciless Death’s 2006 debut Evil in the Night. At eight tracks and a little over 25-minutes, Evil in the Night is a fast-paced thrash thrill ride but how does it hold up as a debut? A quick intro ...
(TheBRHM.com) I’m big on vocalists in rock and metal. The right singer can help bring everything together for a band and add life to lyrics. It’s time for a Genre Challenge! Here, I take five musicians and put their talents in a genre outside of what they’re known to perform. ...
(TheBRHM.com) Metal and music history was made during the 63rd Grammy Awards as Body Count took home the award for Best Metal Performance. It marked the band’s first Grammy Award win and the first time that a band comprised of Black and Latino members won any award for heavy metal ...
(TheBRHM.com) When talking about music with my younger brother—peep his writing over on ThyBlackMan and AfroGamers—the topic of musical consistency comes up often. You want an artist’s material such as full lengths/LPs to be consistent from album to album and track to track. Even if some tracks don’t lands the ...
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(TheBRHM.com) We recently took a “Greatest Album Debuts” jaunt to Canada for some power metal stylings. As a country for metal music, I dig Canada for its speed metal and thrash offerings but acts like Smoulder, 3 Inches of Blood, metal OG Thor, and Gatekeeper show that the Great White ...
(TheBRHM.com) In the late 1990s, I wasn’t familiar with Kiss at all. Sure, I most likely heard some of their hit tunes in commercials or films but I didn’t actually match them with those songs. It wouldn’t be until the release of the Psycho Circus comic book from Image Comics ...
(TheBRHM.com) My metal listening recently has been more on epic metal of the 1980s. A lot of the acts come from traditional heavy metal roots—somewhat different from the German bands that came from speed metal and became power metal with future albums. Let’s check out five albums that I’ve had ...
(TheBRHM.com) In the late 1990s-early 2000s, my city had two rock radio stations: one for classic rock and hard rock and another for alternative rock. Both stations had its own blocks of music with the hard rock station—The Eagle—playing more of a mix since it had more decades to pull ...
(TheBRHM.com) Since we’ve taken a look at Mötley Crüe’s 1981 debut Too Fast for Love, I figured “Well hell, we gotta do W.A.S.P.” For those who have never heard of W.A.S.P, they’re a band hailing from Los Angeles. The band as well as the Crüe has its roots in the ...
(TheBRHM.com) It’s an 80s L.A metal trifecta for “Greatest Album Debuts”! We looked at the debuts from Mötley Crüe and W.A.S.P, now we’ll look at opening salvo from a pretty “If You Know, You Know” band in Lizzy Borden with their 1985 full-length debut Love You to Pieces. What stands ...
(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 ...