Welcome to part two of our four-part series counting down our top metal album of 2022. You can find part one (and a brief explanation as to why I broke this up into four parts) here: Top Metal Albums Part 1 30. Dark Meditation – Polluted Temples One of my favorite debut full-length’s of … More Top Metal Albums 2022: Part 2 (30-21)
The return of our (hopefully soon to be again) monthly column where we look at the new metal releases currently in heavy rotation at The Metal Dad household. Critical Defiance – Misconception Anyone who follows our Metal Dad Radio Show knows the Heavy Metal World Tour segment featured a handful of Chilean bands a … More More (Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – January 2019
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
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
Everyone who listens to metal music has a Gateway Band. Honestly anyone who listens to any style of music that doesn’t get constant mainstream media attention has a Gateway Band. That’s because you need to start somewhere. You need that one band/artist that makes you want to dig deeper into a certain style of music. … More AC/DC: The Gateway Band
The short answer to the above question is: of course! Do your kids listen to some (or all) of the music you love? Then why would it be out of the ordinary for children of a metalhead to not listen to at least some metal? Oh right, because it’s metal… Truth be told, my four … More Do Your Kids Listen To This Stuff?
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