Hard to believe its been almost a full year since I posted anything at all on this blog. I have no excuses except that other things took priority in 2024. What remained a priority though was consuming as much new metal music as time allowed. What you’ll find here is the first half of our … More Top Metal Albums 2024: Part 1 (40-21)
My promise to myself in 2024 was to post more than I did last year. (At least more than just archived Fiendish Five episodes, of which there are still a bunch to go up.) We’ll start with one of my favorite annual exercises, in which we look back at 25 metal albums celebrating their 25th … More 1999: 25 Heavy Albums From 25 Years Ago
I started putting this annual list together several years ago when I was freelance writing for the Hartford Courant. I loved putting this article together because it kept me on my toes and forced me to continually search out new music from my home state throughout the year. (Not that I needed much prodding.) While … More Top Connecticut Albums 2023
Welcome to the final part in our series looking back at our favorite metal albums of 2023. You can find Part 1 (40-21) and Part 2 (20-11) here on the site, and don’t forget you can check out some of our favorite tracks from the top 20 over at The Metal Dad Radio Show. … More Top Metal Albums 2023: Part 3 (10-1)
Welcome back to Part II of our series unveiling our Top 40 Metal Albums of 2023. Make sure you check out the first part of the series counting down 40 through 21. You can also hear tracks from the below albums over at this past week’s Metal Dad Radio Show. 20. Nixil – From … More Top Metal Albums 2023: Part 2 (20-11)
Please don’t let the utter lack of album reviews on the blog this year be mistaken for me not listening to any new music. The lack of reviews (which will be remedied in 2024) was due to a host of external factors. The flow of new music never stopped, so much so that this annual … More Top Metal Albums 2023: Part 1 (40-21)
For quite awhile now I’ve been publishing a list of my favorite albums released by Connecticut artists. I do this as a way to celebrate what I think is an absolutely stellar music scene here in my home state. In four of the previous five years I’ve been lucky enough to have this list show … More Top Connecticut Albums of 2022
There are approximately 80 quadrillion year-end lists that flood the interwebs every year. I recognize that and fully recognize that this list probably matters way more to me more than it does anyone reading it (or appearing on it for that matter). However, my desire to share the music I love with my fellow connoisseurs … More Top Metal Albums 2022: Part 1 (40-31)
We may have been dormant in posting over the last few months but we weren’t dormant in listening to new music. Below is a round-up of some recent heavy releases that are worthy of your time and dollars. Lament Cityscape – A Darker DischargeOne of my favorite projects to revisit in recent years is the … More More (Metal) Guitar in the Monitor – July 2022
March was chock full o’ horror as I spent the month catching up on recent films and also revisiting a ton of classics I hadn’t seen in forever (thanks to HBOMax who I just recently realized has a fairly robust selection of horror movies). While I won’t go down the road of spelling out why … More More Horror in the Monitor – March 2022
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