(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 ...