This week's pick is a notable album from 1993 that marked a major lineup change for a long-running group as well as a shift in sound from their standard thrash to a more fit for the times alternative metal approach. Anthrax – Sound Of White Noise Released May 25, 1993 via Elektra Records My Favorite …
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Incantation – Deliverance Of Horrific Prophecies
Today's single is a relic, both of my collection of the death metal renaissance of the early 1990's. I originally purchased this record via mail order in 1992 or '93, not sure exactly. And it's in my collection today, though it spent a very long time not in the collection. It's a story I'll tell …
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S-Tier Songs, Vol. 15
This is another edition of S-Tier songs. For the premise behind this exercise and the list of prior inductees, click here. Today I visit a song from 2000. Not a hotbed year of music, at least what I and many others who read this listen to. But this band and this song would rise up …
Upcoming Releases – Labor Daze
I've been up against it on posts lately, but the old reliable upcoming releases rises again. We are about to enter a holiday in the US, which I actually don't have off. I'll get paid handsomely for my time so it's all good. I might even buy records with my excess money. Or, with the …
Autopsy – Horrific Obsession
Today's single is from one of the heaviest bands in the world and is a very interesting prospect – the group had split 14 years before the single's release. The single marked the return of a death metal institution, with the band still going today. Autopsy were an early force on the death metal scene …
S-Tier Songs, Vol. 14
Here we are yet again for another edition of S-Tier songs. The list of prior entries and the criteria can be found here. I'm at an odd place with this series – I've been looking to get a variety of artists on here before I start repeating acts. But also this has been running for …
Album Of The Week – August 15, 2022
This week I want to have a look at an album that was commercially successful, has some divided fan opinion though is generally looked on fondly, but is completely disavowed by the artist. Ozzy Osbourne – The Ultimate Sin Released February 22, 1986 via Epic Records My Favorite Tracks – Lightning Strikes, The Ultimate Sin, …
Tales From The Stage – Crowbar and Spirit Adrift
Back on Tuesday, July 26th, I took in what was – uh, I guess it's actually my first metal show since the pandemic. Probably since some time in 2019. Some kind of metalhead I am, right? Anyway, so I drug my poser ass out to a show. There was no way to ignore this one …
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Voivod and At The Gates – We Are Connected/Language Of The Dead
Today's single is another split release. It features two bands both well-known and heralded in metal's lexicon, though in different aspects. Both bands were labelmates with Century Media Records in 2015 and that is the likely reason for this single being in existence. (Both still are with CM, as far as I can tell). One …
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S-Tier Songs, Vol. 13
It's time yet again for another edition of S-Tier songs. Here's a list of who's in so far and the criteria behind it all. It looks like unlucky number thirteen is up. What against the odds, damn it all band could possibly live up to that distinction? Motörhead – Ace Of Spades https://youtu.be/3mbvWn1EY6g This homage …
The Crooked Wanderer 