It’s another pseudo-monthly look at some of the heavy albums that have been rocking our ear holes over the last few weeks, and that we highly recommend rock yours as well. Desiket Dogs – Fixed Blade Leash Every now and then an album fires buckshot across your bow and in the course of listening … More More (Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – April 2020
Another Academy Awards nominee announcement, another year that horror movies are woefully neglected by Academy voters. As horror movie fans we should all be used to this by now – and in all brutal honesty really shouldn’t care too much – but seeing some phenomenal 2020 films get shut out of even the technical categories … More 15 Horror Movies That Should Have Won Oscars
Pandemic shmamdenic. Not even COVID can stop the flow of exceptional new music from reaching our collective ear holes. This time around we look at some recent metal releases that have us banging our heads extra hard. Suffering Hour – The Cyclic Reckoning Having come of age during the first true golden era of … More More (Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – March 2021
The older you get the harder it is to fathom how fast time seemingly moves. When I look back at all the amazing metal albums released in 1996 I have a hard time comprehending that they are each celebrating their silver anniversary this year. Yet here we sit. Twenty-five years ago I was putting in … More 1996: 25 Heavy Albums From 25 Years Ago
In previous years I was very strict in my belief that any ‘best of’ list should be reserved for full-length albums. While, I maintained that rule for the three lists we already posted in 2020 – Connecticut albums, Metal albums, and Americana albums – the amount of stellar EPs I found myself gravitating to this … More 2020 Non-Metal EPs of the Year
In past years we’ve done a companion year-end list to our annual heavy metal one where we dump everything else “non-metal” into one bucket. It always wound up being a smorgasbord of genres – country, folk, blues, indie rock, neo-classical – you name it, it was probably represented. This year I decided to switch things … More 2020 Americana Albums of the Year
While the Covid Times hung over everything like the darkest pall, the metal world thankfully kept churning out noteworthy albums. What follows below is my personal list of my favorite full-length release from this past calendar year. While I’m loathe to call this a “best of” list simply because I’m one person and can’t possibly … More 2020 Metal Albums of the Year
For the last couple years I was tasked with putting together a list similar to this one for the Hartford Courant. Knowing in advance that I would be assigned this monumental task I made a special effort to scour the web and listen to literally every Connecticut-based album I could find across every genre imaginable. … More 2020 Connecticut Albums of the Year
We roll on with our series of revisiting and ranking the back catalogues of some of our favorite metal acts. Last summer The Candyman and I ranked every Iron Maiden album, only to find that we drastically differed on some and were in lock step on others. A couple months ago we tackled the studio … More The Metal Dad’s Album Rankings: Slayer
Time to get back on the horse and shine a light on some of the heavy albums that are rattling our foundations. Curse The Son – Excruciation Full disclosure, if you had asked me at the beginning of the year what my most anticipated metal albums were for 2020 at some point I would … More More (Metal) Guitar in the Monitor – June 2020
