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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) It’s March 1992 and Ice T just had a strong 1991 with the success of New Jack City, the solid performance of Ricochet, and a landmark album in O.G. Original Gangsta. His 1992 would kick off with his band Body Count’s self-titled debut. This was an album I saw ...
(TheBRHM.com) German band Sacred Steel dropped their tenth album Ritual Supremacy in late April 2025 and we’re going to check it out by look at the A-side and B-side separately, highlighting the standout tracks on both sides, and looking at the strength of the opening track—the first impression. A-Side of ...
(TheBRHM.com) Let’s head to Japan for our first in a trifecta of album dives. This one looks at the debut release from Saitama’s Hellhound called Tokyo Flying V Massacre. I discovered this album roughly a year after its 2006 release. My initial thought were that it was some good Japanese ...
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(TheBRHM.com) Something cracked open in the summer of 1991, and you felt it before you could explain it. “Enter Sandman” came slinking out of car speakers with that heavy, dragging riff, and all of a sudden the guys who used to live on the fringes were sitting right there in ...
(TheBRHM.com) Some voices you recognize inside two seconds. Three rooms away, dishes running, somebody talking over the stereo, and still that wail cuts clean through and you know exactly who owns it. Ozzy had one of those. Not pretty in the trained sense. Never powerful the way opera measures power. ...
(TheBRHM.com) Something happened in the space of about twelve months that split the story of loud guitars into before and after. Heavy metal did not get invented in 1980. Anybody who tells you that skipped a whole decade. The loud stuff had been rumbling since Sabbath opened 1970 with that ...
(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) Chart position has never been an honest scorecard for what actually shapes a genre. Ask any serious listener to name the architects of heavy music and the same handful of arena acts get recited on loop. Metallica. Iron Maiden. Sabbath, obviously. Those names deserve their pedestals. But something gets ...
(TheBRHM.com) Ask anyone raised on thrash which names carry weight and the answer arrives on cue. Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax. Those four names would eventually harden into thrash metal scripture and cling so tightly that whole legacies got graded against a club nobody ever held elections for. Parked just outside ...
(TheBRHM.com) Most people slap a label on this band and walk away satisfied. Funk rock. Two words, case closed. That tag has followed them since the mid eighties, and it flattens something that deserves a much closer listen. What they built over four decades refuses to sit still inside any ...
(TheBRHM.com) Go through the metal albums that actually stuck around and you keep bumping into the same thing. Somewhere on the track list sits a cut that has no business being there, and half the time that misfit is exactly why the whole record still lands. Distortion does a funny ...