#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: “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.
#MetalMonday: “Demons In You” by Tarja (featuring Alissa White-Gluz)
Alissa White-Gluz (Arch-Enemy) plays the demonic shadow shelf to Tarja Turunen’s radiant goddesshood...
#MetalMonday: “Stargazer” by Rainbow
“Stargazer” is epic, complex, heavy, dark, majestic—everything that power metal would later claim as job #1.
#MetalMonday: “Our Most Desperate Hour” by Nita Strauss
There’s riffage galore and soaring melodic hooks—grab your blackest t-shirt and refill your lighter for this reminder of the joy of metal.