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(TheBRHM.com) Some bands grab you by the collar. Others slip a blade between your ribs so clean you don’t notice the wound until the song ends. Crimson Glory did the second thing. Five dudes out of Sarasota, Florida, decided the world didn’t need another look-alike act in denim and bullet ...
(TheBRHM.com) Back around 1980, a Danish teenager named Lars Ulrich was living in California, digging through British heavy metal magazines and ordering records from overseas. He’d spotted the name Diamond Head in Sounds, then heard “It’s Electric” on an MCA compilation called Brute Force. That song got its hooks into ...
(TheBRHM.com) Picture a basement somewhere in the East Bay around 1982, tape decks humming, kids dubbing demos onto cassettes and mailing them across the country like contraband. That was the cradle. Thrash grew up poor, loud, and proud of having nothing, built as a fist swung at the hairspray crowd ...
(TheBRHM.com) There’s a band out of Florida that half the metal faithful will swear got robbed by history. Savatage. A pair of brothers from the Tampa Bay area cooked up a sound few American metal bands had the nerve to chase, part Sabbath doom and part Broadway theater. Yet the ...
(TheBRHM.com) A few bands get the arena. Others get the magazine cover, the platinum plaque, the festival billing in letters you can read from the parking lot. Then there is the outfit that earned the respect of every musician in the room and somehow missed the party anyway. That is ...
(TheBRHM.com) Word reached the Legions on October 1st, and the floor shifted under everyone who ever worshipped at the altar of distortion. Conrad Lant, the Newcastle force the planet knew as Cronos, was gone at 63. No cause has been named. His son Nathan spoke for family and faithful at ...
(TheBRHM.com) Forty autumns back, a chrome skull with its eyes bolted shut and its ears clamped tight stood before the United Nations, hoisting a For Sale sign over the whole rotten transaction. Vic Rattlehead, the Megadeth mascot grinning through welded metal, put a face on an argument most people in 1986 ...
(TheBRHM.com) Most folks meet Fleetwood Mac inside a golden California haze, all mirror ball harmonies and “Dreams” pouring from a car radio on some lazy afternoon. Wind the clock back nearly a decade before that, though, and you land somewhere dirtier and louder, way closer to the swampy roots that ...