Thousands of years after the Bronze and Iron Ages, the true Metal Age dawned half a century ago. In 1970, Black Sabbath convincingly evoked the true essence of evil with the lumbering, three-chord opening guitar riff to the song “Black Sabbath,” consecrating the first pure heavy-metal cru...
Half a decade after shaking up the genre with his innovative guitar playing, Edward Van Halen added pop-friendly keyboards to his repertoire on1984and once again completely transformed modern hard rock. After the chart-topping success of "Jump," pretty much every other band in their peer group ...
a very synthwave style song fused with progressive metal that incorporates the traditional odd-tempo rhythm and guitar melodies, setting the stage for the album's grand journey. Once the turn comes for the second track'Before The Fall', the vocals join alongside the established instrumentation, ma...
Were you to steal a glance into the window of this listener's heart, the anatomically-minded might be able to identify precisely the place that will always exist there for the kind of hi-octane trad metal / NWOBHM thatHaunthave become so adept at blazing their way through. No doubt there...
structure both musically and vocally. The eight plus minute song is a strong complement of whatCortezdoes very well. “Odds Are” has a traditional metal feel to it with blazing guitar leads and staggered step drumming. It’s a cool song that has great dual guitar harmonies akin toIron ...
" there is no break from the thrash legends' unique and specific brand of heavy metal on72 Seasons. There are no ballads or acoustic moments; instead, what Metallica deliver is 77 minutes of new riffs, dark lyrics and one of the heaviest bass and drum combinations we've heard in decades...
" there is no break from the thrash legends' unique and specific brand of heavy metal on72 Seasons. There are no ballads or acoustic moments; instead, what Metallica deliver is 77 minutes of new riffs, dark lyrics and one of the heaviest bass and drum combinations we've heard in decades...
" there is no break from the thrash legends' unique and specific brand of heavy metal on72 Seasons. There are no ballads or acoustic moments; instead, what Metallica deliver is 77 minutes of new riffs, dark lyrics and one of the heaviest bass and drum combinations we've heard in decades...
” I was not trying to make fun of it, but make light of it. Metallica subsequently did too. Chris Wright, the founding partner of Chrysalis Records, is the one who came up with the idea for the ad, “The flute is a heavy metal instrument.” That’s what went inBillboardand it ...
MR. BIG, formed in 1988, have produced numerous hit songs that ranged across a wide array of rock genres – be it ballads, heavy metal, or blues rock. Their hits include, but are not limited to,“Alive and Kicking,”“Just Take My Heart” and the chart-topping ballad, “To Be With...