by Metal Insider | Jul 3, 2014 | Columns, Headbangers Brawl
This week’s Headbangers Brawl come from a Facebook post from freelance writer Phil Freeman that we saw last week. It was a bit of a rant talking about Mastodon. Not Once More ‘Round the Sun, but the fact that the same week that album was released, Relapse announced...
by Bram Teitelman | Jul 3, 2014 | New Music, News, Updates, Video
[youtube]http://youtu.be/Kzb9IZcPrQE[/youtube] A few weeks ago, the internet collectively flipped out when Finnish band Steve ‘n’ Seagulls performed a folky cover of Iron Maiden’s “The Trooper” that sounded like it came from the...
by Zach Fehl | Jul 3, 2014 | Columns, In Defense of Their Good Name
In Defense of Their Good Name is a column where we rise to the defense of bands or albums, or in this case genres, that are often criticized in the metal scene. Although directly influenced by some of the biggest and most well respected names in heavy metal history,...
by Metal Insider | Jul 1, 2014 | Columns, Top 5
And just like that, 2014 is half over. Hard to believe it’s gone this fast, right? At any rate, instead of listing our top ten records of the year so far, we thought we’d look back – 30 years back – to celebrate some of the best albums of 1984....
by Bram Teitelman | Jun 24, 2014 | Metal on Metal, News
Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson can pretty much do no wrong. He’s a pilot, a fencer, an author and the frontman of one of the most successful metal bands of all time. However, his recent comments about punk music in an interview with The Guardian seem a...