Welcome to another installment of Childish Reviews, where my children review tracks from recently released metal albums (and this month a classic track as well). Eight Bells – Hating First up is Portland’s post metal power-trio, Eight Bells. Adroitly mixing in ethereal aesthetics and elements of doom and psych rock, their new album, Landless, is … More Childish Reviews #3
A new installment of the monthly series where we explore recent metal releases currently in heavy rotation. Magrudergrind – II Six years. Six long years since Magrudergrind has graced us with a raging slab of some of the best grindcore around. But while 2016 has not been kind thus far to aging rock stars … More More (Metal) Guitar In the Monitor – March 2016
Do you like your rock with an edge? Do you like it sounding like it should be played in a bar that has a strip club neighboring it on one side and a pot dispensary on the other, and not so secret hallways that lead to both? Maybe a place where people still smoke and … More Review: Black Wail – All You Can Eat
A monthly wrap-up where we take a look at some of the recently released (metal) albums I’ve been rocking but didn’t have time to review in full… HUSH – Nihil Unbound Brutally heavy, crust-infused doom metal out of New York. HUSH play a brand of doom that will remind you of the more doom-drenched moments … More More (Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – February 2016
Back by popular demand – Corpse Paint Babies. Peruse these images of innocent little lambs donning their best black metal corpse paint, as drawn by my 16 year old (who clearly inherited my sense of humor).
If you call yourself a metal fan and don’t know the name Albert Mudrian, you need to get clued in. As founder and Editor in Chief of Decibel Magazine, Mudrian sits somewhere right near the center of the Heavy Metal Universe as he oversees the biggest and best metal mag, at the very least in … More The Metal Dad Interviews Albert Mudrian
Welcome to the second installment of Childish Reviews, where I ask my kids to listen to songs off of recently released metal albums I’m digging and ask for their feedback. This time around we changed things up a bit. After each track I asked them to rate it on a scale of 1 to 10. … More Childish Reviews #2
25 Years Later is a new series of posts where we take a look how some of my personal favorite albums have stood the test of time as they celebrate their Silver Anniversary. First up, one of the first great records to come out in 1991 – Motörhead’s 1916. It’s fitting in so many ways … More 25 Years Later: Motörhead – 1916
For anyone who missed the “non-metal” list, a little background first. I was asked the last couple years to compile an all-encompassing year end list and inevitably every year that list was weighted quite heavily in favor of all things metal. This year would not have been any different. So I decided that if I … More 2015 Metal Albums of the Year
I listen to a lot of new music…a lot. That translates into a lot of album reviews for a couple different sites. But I have always been curious what my children would think of some of the albums that I’ve been loving. So we begin a new series of posts where I select one song … More Childish Reviews #1
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