The Heavy Metal World Tour is a companion piece to a weekly segment on The Metal Dad Radio Show. Each week we play a block of bands from a specific location from around the world, picked entirely at random. This week: Glasgow, Scotland There’s no denying the Scottish metal scene’s input into the global metal … More The Heavy Metal World Tour – Glasgow, Scotland
The Heavy Metal World Tour is a companion piece to a weekly segment on The Metal Dad Radio Show. Each week we play a block of bands from a specific location from around the world, picked entirely at random. This week: St. Petersburg, Russia Russia’s history of heavy metal exports is probably richer than even … More The Heavy Metal World Tour – St. Petersburg, Russia
The Heavy Metal World Tour is a companion piece to a weekly segment on The Metal Dad Radio Show. Each week we play a block of bands from a specific location from around the world, picked entirely at random. This week: The Philippines I will fully admit that if put on the spot I couldn’t … More The Heavy Metal World Tour – The Philippines
The Heavy Metal World Tour is a companion piece to a weekly segment on The Metal Dad Radio Show. Each week we play a block of bands from a specific location from around the world, picked entirely at random. This week: Madrid, Spain While not as renowned as some of their European counterparts, Spain has … More The Heavy Metal World Tour – Madrid, Spain
The Heavy Metal World Tour is a companion piece to weekly segment on The Metal Dad Radio Show. Each week we play a block of bands from a specific location from around the world, picked entirely at random. This week: Berlin, Germany Germany’s history of heavy metal exports is long, and impressive. From the earliest … More The Heavy Metal World Tour – Berlin, Germany
I’m well aware that my blog output has been fairly sporadic for quite some time now. There are too many excuses that all tie together in this silly game of life, but not the least of which is that when I do have time to write – usually late at night – I’m just too … More The Metal Dad’s Guide to Netflix Binging
For those who don’t already know The Metal Dad also hosts a weekly radio show on Cygnus Radio, co-hosted by my 11 and 5-year olds. It’s a blast to say the least. We introduced a new segment this past week called The Heavy Metal World Tour. It’s exactly as it sounds – a brief examination … More The Heavy Metal World Tour – Costa Rica
It’s common knowledge, and fairly obvious to even those who don’t partake, that heavy metal formed out of rock music. It’s equally common knowledge that rock formed out of the blues. Go back to the earliest progenitors of rock n’ roll and their hits were more often than not simply sanitized blues numbers. The fact … More The Metal Dad’s Guide To The Blues
My dream is to go to that place. (You know the one.) Where it all began on a starry night… Anyone who knows me at all, even slightly, knows how much I have worshiped at the altar of Twin Peaks lo these last 25+ years. There are the multiple Twin Peaks themed/linked tattoos. There is … More Five Can’t Miss Musical Performances From Twin Peaks: The Return
The bulk of this article ran roughly two years ago on the blog, Lonesome Noise. With a new series about to launch us back into the Lynchian abyss of Twin Peaks, it’s not a bad time to look back once again on the music that helped make the original series the iconic cultural phenomenon we’ve … More The Music of Twin Peaks
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