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
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
Time for another edition of our monthly series where we take a look at what metal albums have been recently rocking our world… Germ – Escape Australia’s Germ are the newest end vision of metal vet, Tim Yatras. While the ‘blackened shoegaze’ bandwagon seems to be getting a little overcrowded with a bunch of bands … More More (Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – May 2016
In previous iterations of this series I’ve sat my children down and had them listen to a track off a recent metal album that I had previously reviewed. Last time out I threw them a curve ball and played them my favorite track from 80s metal stalwarts, Warlock. Their reaction was a bit surprising – … More Childish Reviews #4: 80s Video Version
This month will mark the 30th anniversary of one of the worst nuclear disasters the world has ever known. The Chernobyl disaster was not the first nuclear accident, sadly, nor would it be the last. But when you talk about the Cold War and you talk about nuclear power gone horribly wrong there may be … More Chernobyl and The Nuclear Playlist
Skáphe – Skáphe2 Back in February, Philadelphia’s Skáphe released their second album, with the CD version coming to us from ever interesting I, Voidhanger Records. Upon first listen this was an album I truly had a hard time trying to compartmentalize. It’s an album that is as confounding as it is intriguing, and that’s meant … More More (Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – April 2016
I can remember working in college radio in the mid-90s, on the phone with a label rep, talking about our metal youths. “Mine was like something out of Heavy Metal Parking Lot,” he said. “What the hell is Heavy Metal Parking Lot,” I asked. Roughly two weeks later a padded envelope showed up at the … More 30 Years Later: The Greatest Hits of Heavy Metal Parking Lot
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