Metal playlists from the underground
Here is a list of the Top 10 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time. If you don’t own all of these records then you’ve got problems. It is interesting to note that 40% of these picks were released in the year 1980 and 70% of these came out in the 1980s. The post-1980’s exceptions are […]
1. Guns ‘N’ Roses “November Rain” 2. Metallica “One” 3. AC/DC “Thunderstruck” 4. Judas Priest “Breaking the Law” 5. Queen “Bohemian Rhapsody” 6. Ozzy Osbourne “Bark at the Moon” 7. Megadeth “Sweating Bullets” 8. Iron Maiden “Run To The Hills” 9. Twisted Sister “I Wanna Rock” 10. Van Halen “Hot For Teacher” 11. Def Leppard […]
WHITECHAPEL: A NEW ERA OF CORRUPTION Knoxville, TN deathcore quintet Whitechapel have built a loyal following by steamrolling audiences with their three-pronged downtuned guitar attack, and their latest offering A NEW ERA OF CORRUPTION continues this squad’s mission statement with a bounty of their trademarked brutality at the forefront of the charge. Featuring 11 tracks […]
After polling the little demonic beings living within my thick fat hairy skull, an imperfect list of the Top 100 All-Time Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Bands was born. We hope you despise it. Insincerely Yours, The Management P.S. When you are done vomiting blood all over the list, test your metal wits on the […]
ARMORED SAINT: LA RAZA After a near-decade long layoff, arguably the biggest hard-luck metal band ever Armored Saint return with LA RAZA, an infectious multi-layered metallic creation brimming over with a deep wealth of hooks while retaining the ahead of their time eclectic heaviness that made the band stand out amongst swarms of bands from […]
German power metal week continues here on the Gears of Rock with the latest release from Gamma Ray titled To The Metal. The melodic unit offers 10 tracks that go heavy on the groove while maintaining a fierce thrash sound. “Time to Live” features a sweet guitar riff throughout its intro before taking on a […]
When the Age of Evil Get Dead EP arrived on my doorstep, the two cover tracks — Skid Row’s “Slave to the Grind” and Judas Priest’s “The Hellion/Electric Eye” — immediately gained my attention. “This is going to be a killer disc,” I thought to myself. The band has a cool name, some teenage angst, and […]
VOIVOD INFINI Finishing up where Katorz left off, the final round of posthumous musical output from deceased guitarist Denis “Piggy” D’Amour has arrived in the form of Infini, a 13-track collection dutifully piecing together the remainder of the compositional odds and sods D’Amour left behind on his laptop before succumbing to cancer in 2005. The […]
1. Black Sabbath – Volume 4 (1972) – With Halloween a little more than two months away, this record makes it’s way back into lineup. The single power chord riff that opens “Wheels of Confusion” is frightening in its structure and eerie simplicity. “Snowblind” bears an irresistible groove while “Supernaut” sports a percussive orgy in […]
TIM RIPPER OWENS PLAY MY GAME After providing vocals for the most notable metal bands in the world for well over the past decade, Tim “Ripper” Owens finally steps out as a solo artist on his 12-track debut PLAY MY GAME. Bringing a mind-blowing cross-section of the metal friends he’s made along the way to […]