Heavy Prog defines progressive rock music that draws as much influence from hard rock as it does from classic progressive rock. In simple terms, it is a marriage of the guitar-based heavy blues of the late 1960s and 1970s - artists such as Cream, Led Zeppelin, and Black Sabbath - and ...
Dig DeeperThe Best Songs on Megadeth's Album 'The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead!' Also ranks #2onRock Bands With The Coolest Custom Beers Also ranks #2onThe 100+ Best Thrash Bands, Ranked 7 Dio 395 votes Founded by the enigmatic frontman Ronnie James Dio, this eponymous band made...
I’ve not had my typical run up to Christmas this year. Usually I’d be enjoying wintery walks to and from work while listening to all my favourite Christmassy rock: 80s stuff from bands like KISS, Whitesnake, Magnum, Van Halen etc… but my knee has been knackered for a couple of w...
There are so many bands over the last couple of years that I’ve found on here (thanks to Paul’s reporting) that I somehow never heard of when they were out, even though their popularity was in a midst of my obsession with EVERYTHING new that was coming out at the time. I always...
Vintage rock with hot running amplifiers, songs that approach the wisdom of that time in a new way. Started by frontman Stephan Theis in the summer of 2018, the aim of this band was to bring new energy to the charms of the well known bands out of the 1970s era. During a trip to ...
Vocalist Jon Paquin looked like he stepped out of the 1970s with his tan slacks, dress shoes (or boots?), button up big collared shirt, scarves and a white fringe jacket (he would later don a sailor’s cap as well, completing the yacht rock look). Granted, he looked cool, but the...
List of Canadian heavy metal bands, listed by popularity with photos when available. This list includes more than just bands, as heavy metal solo artists from ...
“It Begins Here” was never truer based on so very many listeners viewing this as the crushing beginning of the Heavy Metal sound. It was different from the type of Rock that bands like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Cream had delivered before them and while holding some similar roots ...
rock criticismthink-piecethird-generationwhite bluesThis article debates (with Deena Weinstein's work, in particular) the origins of the adjectival phrase heavy metal, as it is seen to emerge from rock criticism in the early 1970s. Drawing on an...
Die Integration der älteren Hard Rock-Bands als neue Säulenheilige des Heavy Metals und die Etablierung einer »New Wave of British Heavy Metal« konstruier- ten ein ex-post-Narrativ, eine Fortschreibung in die Vergangenheit und damit in eine Zeit, die vermeintlich von größeren...