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A Funked-Up Fairy Tale: Extreme’s ‘Pornograffiti’ at 30

September 1, 2020September 1, 2020 Bryan Rolli 0 Comments 1990, Extreme, Extreme II: Pornograffitti, Faith No More, Gary Cherone, More Than Words, Nuno Bettencourt, Pat Badger, Paul Geary, Poison, Pornograffiti, Queen, The Beatles, Van Halen, Warrant, White Lion

This is the story of a great band caught between hair metal and alternative rock until they hit big with a Beatlesque ballad

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Experimental Hardcore Metal! Progressive Rock 

Greater Colorful Complexity:  Between the Buried and Me’s The Great Misdirect Turns 10

December 3, 2019December 2, 2019 Jordan Blum 0 Comments 2009, Between the Buried and Me, The Great Misdirect, The Parallax II: Future Sequence, Victory Records

A look back at a loud rock classic that stood at the crossroads of death metal and prog

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Metal! 

Stronger Than Hate: Sepultura’s Beneath the Remains at 30

October 17, 2019October 17, 2019 Kelley Simms 0 Comments 1989, 30th Anniversary, Andreas Kisser, Beneath the Remains, Igor Cavalera, Jairo Guedz, Max Cavalera, Obituary, Paulo Jr., Roadrunner Records, Sepultura


Brazilian thrashers opened up a whole new can of worms with its third studio album

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Heavy Metal Metal! 

The Priest They Called Them

May 21, 2019May 21, 2019 Kelley Simms 0 Comments Ian Hill, Judas Priest, Rob Halford

Lifelong Judas Priest bassist Ian Hill discusses his band’s legacy

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Heavy Metal Metal! 

Fade To Blackie

April 30, 2019April 30, 2019 Lily Moayeri 1 Comment 1989, 30th Anniversary, Blackie Lawless, Quiet Riot, Uriah Heep, W.A.S.P.

The Headless Children by W.A.S.P. turns 30

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Alternative Rock Electronic Experimental Metal! Punk 

Spiraling With Nine Inch Nails

March 27, 2019March 27, 2019 Meghan Roos 0 Comments 1994, 25th Anniversary, Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor

Trent Reznor’s psychological thriller turned 25 this month

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Heavy Metal Metal! 

Appetite for Vernichtung

March 27, 2019March 27, 2019 Phil Freeman 0 Comments Sweden, Tenebre, Wolfsblood

Sweden’s Wolfsblood goes for the jugular on their brutal debut album Vomit & Lice

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Hard Rock Metal! Psychedelics 

Chinese Rocks

March 12, 2019April 11, 2019 Phil Freeman 1 Comment Box sets, Deep Purple, Original Album Series

Cheap multi-album box sets bring joy to those of us who still buy CDs

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Blues Hard Rock Metal! Rock 

Radio Resonance

February 1, 2019February 1, 2019 Katherine Turman 0 Comments 1989, 30th Anniversary, Tesla

Tesla’s “controversial” classic turns 30

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Metal! Punk Remembrance Rock Soul 

He Is The Highway: A Rock God Memorialized

November 22, 2018November 22, 2018 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments Box Set, Chris Cornell, Seattle, Soundgarden, Temple of the Dog

A lovingly compiled new box set pays tribute to the understated versatility of the late Chris Cornell

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Metal! 

What Happened to Disturbed?

November 8, 2018November 8, 2018 Phil Freeman 1 Comment David Draiman, Disturbed, Nu-Metal

Why didn’t the multiplatinum Chicago metal group’s new album debut at no. 1 like the five other albums that preceded it?

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