Anthrax, ‘Fistful of Metal’ 1984 GuitaristScott Ianon the aggro-but-amateurish cover of Anthrax’s debut album: “It’s horrible, actually. It was [singer] Neil Turbin’s idea from start to finish, and was done by a guy called Kent Joshpe. But it’s also odd, because if you loo...
The grunge explosion hit a lot of hair-metal bands hard. After Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden rewrote the rules on how rock stars should sound and dress, Poison put aside their usual bright green logo and teased hairdos in favor of a more natural image for 1993'sNative Tongue. But t...
Like bad album covers. There was, as always, a lot of horrific examples to parse through this year: poorly Photoshopped pop singers, bad indie drawings, heavy-handed metal concepts, and two (!) Ted Nugent covers. I, for one, welcome our new digital overlords. As usual, we gave (most...
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Under pressure to respond to the "gay" accusations following their Fly to the Rainbow album, the Scorpions pushed a little too far in asserting their heteromasculinity. A German metal band holds little claim to some Jock Sturges "art, not porn" defense. Conversely, Fotomaker responded to ...
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The grunge explosion hit a lot of hair-metal bands hard. After Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden rewrote the rules on how rock stars should sound and dress, Poison put aside their usual bright green logo and teased hairdos in favor of a more natural image for 1993'sNative Tongue. But ...
As much as I like metal, this band is terrible. This is one of the main reasons why people hate metal. Their album covers are scary and disgusting. They sing about death. The vocals sound more like screaming than singing.The main issue is that the people who like this band hate Taylor...
" and hair metal with '80s hits such as "Heaven's on Fire" and "Tears are Falling." His attempts to replicateBon Jovi-style keyboard pop-rock on 1987'sCrazy Nights, however, were a bit spotty. The title track was a big hit, and the infectious "Turn on the Night" probably deserved...
wildest music ever made and wanted to prove them wrong), the appropriation of the song by Charles Manson (including writing it in blood at one of the murder scenes…yikes), the credit given by many to this song as part of the birth of heavy metal, the original 27-minute version, the ...