#MetalMonday: “Donner and Blitzen” by Rob Halford with Family and Friends
Light the tree and throw up the horns.
#MetalMonday: “Heavy Metal Lover” by The Darkness
“Heavy Metal Lover” stands out as a sonic smorgasbord, a veritable heap of metal tropes packed tight (like leather pants) and tasty.
#MetalMonday: “Evin” by Confess
Good luck on being more extreme than that, every other metal band in the world.
#MetalMonday: “Freedom” by Alice Cooper
The PMRC had seized national attention with their (literal in their minds?) witch hunt, and a new generation of traveling preachers were making their careers by telling ghost stories of…
#MetalMonday: “Go To Hell” by Megadeth
Really, it’s the perfect soundtrack contribution. The track ostensibly complements the film’s theme, albeit at a darker, almost humourless level, and stands on its own as a bridge between the…
#MetalMonday: “Time—Rotterdam” by VUUR
The album’s second track, “Time—Rotterdam,” encapsulates the progression embedded in this return to van Giersbergen’s “old” metal roots. The song is heavy, yes, but playful.
#MetalMonday: “Might As Well Be On Mars” by Alice Cooper
Too long for radio, the wrong fit to feature in Cooper’s conceptual concert setlists, two parts glam metal but one part Frank Sinatra’s Only The Lonely—it’s a “deep cut” if…
#MetalMonday: “The Battle of Tyr/Odin’s Court/Valhalla” by Black Sabbath
If you’re not gonna write your umpteenth song about the devil, might as well do a suite about Thor & Odin instead, amirite?
#MetalMonday: “From the Dead” by Vengeance Rising
From the brutal to the sludgy to the experimental to the symphonic, we raise our horns in welcome and warning to the coming week: we are here to ROCK. What…
#MetalMonday: “Demons on the Wall” by Andromeda Anarchia
And with “Demons on the Wall,” what heavy does is to twist common metal language about fallen angels and hellfire into a progressive panorama of the interior of a terrified…
#MetalMonday: “Head of a Pin” by Overkill
Every element of the song is driving, loud, aggressive...what more do you want from classic thrash in 2019?
#MetalMonday: “The Thin Line Between Love and Hate” by Iron Maiden
it’s all here in an extended track that reflects philosophically on the meaning, not only of death—as we’d come to expect from Maiden—but of life.