We’ve all heard some variant on the expression that there can be no light without darkness. Beauty does not now, nor has it ever existed in a vacuum. There is a perpetual ying and yang that subsists in the natural world, that is sewn into the very fiber of our beings from birth. Plenty of … More Review: Troller – Graphic
A couple months back we took the Childish Reviews segment on a different path. Instead of having my kids listen to a tracks off new albums, they got to critique some classic, 80s metal videos from the likes of Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Dio, and others. This month we are taking it a step further … More Childish Reviews #5: 90’s Death Metal Videos
Another installment of our monthly round-up where we look at which metal albums have been in constant rotation… Diamond Head – Diamond Head Let’s remove from the equation for one second that one track that Metallica liked enough to cover. Doing so would do virtually nothing to diminish this band’s influence on an entire generation … More More (Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – July 2016
Recently on an episode of The Metal Dad Radio Show we had a brief discussion about bands that put out one record and promptly vanished from the face of the Earth. There’s a ton of them out there – some have become cult favorites, others lost to the ages. Regardless of their current status I … More One and Done – A Look at Metal’s Only Children
2014 was a great year for heavy music. Hell, the return of EyeHateGod alone was worth the price of admission. But the most startling release that year, the one that has stuck around like the grief of a lost love came from Portland’s Muscle and Marrow. The Human Cry was a stunning array of esoteric … More Review: Muscle and Marrow – Love
25 Years Later is a series of posts examining classic metal albums during their Silver Anniversary. Today we look at the death-doom classic, Gothic, from England’s Paradise Lost. By 1991 death metal was in full swing. A look at the list of death metal acts that put out albums that year reads like a who’s … More 25 Years Later: Paradise Lost – Gothic
Another monthly installment of the non-metal albums that have been in heavy rotation… Straight to VHS – Landmind Connecticut has a long and storied punk rock history. While that apple down 95 gets all the fame and glory, CT is not without bands that have made their own mark in the punk rock world. New … More More (Non-Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – June 2016
Our monthly installment of metal albums we’ve been rocking, and you should too… Archaic Decapitator – Light of a Different Sun My little home state of Connecticut has a pretty stellar metal history of its own, including some criminally underrated death metal acts. One current act that is just starting to rightfully get more praise … More More (Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – June 2016
They say when worlds collide, magical results often abound. What happens when the world of Iceland’s premiere neo-classical/indie folk outfit collides with one of the most beautiful voices in the world? Well, let’s just say that the result is indeed a magical one. Anneke van Giersbergen became a household name for metal fans as the … More Review: Anneke van Giersbergen and Arstidir – Verloren Verleden
Another edition of our monthly round-up series where we highlight some of the non-metal albums that have been in constant rotation… Wöljager – Van’t Liewen Un Stiäwen This album from Germany’s Wöljager (the one-man project of Helrunar’s Marcel Dreckmann) was originally conceived as a theater play revolving around the story of a certain type … More More (Non-Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – May 2016
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