metal Archive
08 Dec 2016
Album Mini-review: Opeth — Sorceress
File next to: Porcupine Tree, Metallica On their 12th studio album, Swedish group Opeth continues its move away from its death metal origins. Fans who cherish Mikael Åkerfeldt‘s Cookie-Monster-from-Hell vocal […]
13 Jul 2016
Act of Defiance Lives Up to Its Pedigree
In their 30-plus years together, metal group Megadeth has seen eleven different musicians occupy the lead guitar spot. Chris Broderick – Megadeth’s lead guitarist for more than six years – […]
14 Jul 2015
Some Long-lost Artist Biographies
Way back in the depths of the Great Recession (2007-2009), one of my former writers (from my time as Editor in Chief of a now-defunct magazine I won’t dignify by […]
16 Dec 2014
Album Review: Screaming Headless Torsos — Code Red
This charmingly-named outfit weds aggressive, metal-riffage styles to funk textures (a la Red Hot Chili Peppers), and some hip-hop vibe. The result is difficult to pin down, but it’s a […]
09 Dec 2014
Morelouderfastermore: The “Cacaphony” of GWAR
Anyone who’s ever viewed the 1982 film classic This is Spinal Tap will recall the famous “eleven” dialogue between filmmaker Marty DiBergi (Rob Reiner) and Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest). Tufnel […]
22 Oct 2014
Concert Preview: Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath
Shine a light into some of rock history’s less well-lit corners, and you’ll discover some strange yet intriguing detours. Among the most remarkable of these is the conceptual mash-up: combining […]
19 Aug 2013
Album Review: Volto! — Incitare
In the related and sometimes overlapping fields of marketing and customer service, “bait and switch” is – quite rightly – considered a bad thing. Drawing a potential customer in with […]
12 Jun 2013
Book Review: Louder Than Hell
For journalist-authors, there are myriad ways to tell a story. The easiest – and often most effective – is to write the story as narrative, and insert quotes from those […]
27 May 2013
Opeth: Mixing Metal and Melodicism
Initially a Swedish death metal band, Opeth has since its 1990 inception in Stockholm expanded both its sound and its appeal. While the band was an exemplar of the hard-edged […]
21 May 2013
Album Review: Blue Cheer – Rocks Europe
They didn’t call it garage when ? And the Mysterians were playing “96 Tears.” They didn’t label it punk when The Stooges sang about “No Fun.” And they didn’t use […]