Album: Look At Yourself
Label: Mercury Records
Year: 1971

Back in the 60’s and 70’s, rock music was presented with a new breed that pushed the envelope just a little bit further, with bands like Led Zeppelin, Blue Cheer, Deep Purple, RUSH and others forming a posse that would later be termed as proto-metal, meaning rock music that set the tone for what metal [...]

To say that Black Tide are merely an immature band capitalizing on their age like so many underage artists do these days would be criminal. Combining traditional metal riffs and vocals, and Trivium level production values with crisp drums and solos, the only thing odd about Black Tide is the fact that they don’t play [...]

If you are into power metal, the name Avantasia should immediately ring true. Hailed as one of the premiere metal side projects, Tobias Sammet’s (singer of Edguy) outlet for his works outside of Edguy have truly shown his ability to create music outside of his Edguy sphere. Putting together a slew of melodic vocalists to [...]

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Album: The Scarecrow
Label: Nuclear Blast
Year: 2008

Between the Buried and Me decided to change things up in 2006. After three albums of original material, the band then decided last year to take their unique sound and apply it to a recording consisting entirely of covers. While this is not an original concept, the band’s choice of covers is very unexpected (actually, [...]

Old School personified in 2007! Who else wants to see a 3 Inches of Blood/Dream Evil tour? I would sell my nephew for that opportunity! (just kiddin man…)
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Breaking news folks, Dio era Black Sabbath group, Heaven and Hell, have kindly allowed for their recently released live DVD Live at Radio City Music Hall to be streamed for free, in its entirety, at this location. Man it’s good to be a metalhead!