Power metal is not a genre that has been praised and adulated in recent years, at least in America. To most American fans, especially newer ones, the grandiose style associated with power metal does not coexist with their idea of what current metal should sound like. Well real metal fans know that metal is more [...]
Before “Photograph” and “Pour Some Sugar On Me”, Def Leppard was a bonafide heavy metal band. Contrary to what Joe Elliott espouses these days in interviews, they weren’t a “pop band” in the 70’s, they played straight up New Wave of British Heavy Metal. I am actually happy that Joe doesn’t try to play off [...]
I just recently discovered this band, and there’s only one word to describe their sound: fantastic. Despite being on the fairly well known indie label Lifeforce Records, Raintime has largely flown under the radar. Combining the best elements of power metal and melodic death metal (better or comparable to both Children of Bodom and Norther), [...]
Featuring horrific cover art and perhaps even more horrific, a malignant sound combining brutal thrash, grindcore and black metal that was rarely heard, Holocausto made it’s way through the tape trading circuit in 1987 with their debut Campo de Exterminio which still stands as one of Brazil’s most violent and controversial albums to date. This [...]
Right before the onslaught that became grunge in the early 90’s, there was a regional Seattle powerhouse by the name of Sanctuary, which is best known as the original band of Warrel Dane, Jeff Loomis and Jim Sheppard of Nevermore and Alice in Chains fame. However, unlike the modern metal sound of Nevermore, Sanctuary and [...]
Before becoming one of the greatest modern rock guitarists of our time, Zakk Wylde was involved in a little country and blues inspired metal outfit by the name of Pride & Glory. Combining traditional country rhythms with hard hitting riffs that would later show up in Wylde’s Black Label Society, PnG was truly a demonstration [...]
Welcome to a new featue here at All Metal Resource. The Underground Forgotten will feature albums, EP’s and demos that were instrumental to the metal sound but have been largely forgotten about or even disregarded despite their impact on the modern metal landscape. To begin with, we feature P.O.D. (Payable on Death) and their first [...]
