As we wind our way towards another year end (and year end list) here’s the final 2016 installment of our monthly round-up extolling the virtues of some killer non-metal releases. Klimt1918 – Sentimentale Jugend This is a two for the price of one, as Italy’s long-running Klimt1918 pack 19 songs into a double album … More More (Non-Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – December 2016
Continuing our monthly series focusing on recent metal releases that are rocking our world… Ulcerate – Shrines of Paralysis In 2013, New Zealand’s Ulcerate showed up with a record that pretty much obliterated everything in its path and set everyone’s year-end lists ablaze. So three years later what do they do for an encore? … More More (Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – November 2016
A continuing look at the non-metal albums that are heavily loved… Emma Ruth Rundle – Marked For Death Much like recent releases from the likes of Troller and Darkher, I had a hard time deciding if this album should land on the metal or non-metal version of this monthly round-up. There are certainly moments … More More (Non-Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – November 2016
Our monthly round-up of some recent metal releases that have been in heavy rotation… Asphyx – Incoming Death In the long and uncompromising history of death metal there are certain bands whose influence has been felt since the first notes they belched forward. One of those acts is Dutch legends Asphyx. It has been … More More (Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – October 2016
We continue on with our monthly look at some recent favorite (non-metal) albums… S U R V I V E – RR7349 This summer has been the summer of Stranger Things. The hit Netflix series took all of the best things about classic Stephen King novels and campy 80s horror movies and meshed them … More More (Non-Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – October 2016
Another monthly installment of More Guitar In The Monitor where we extol the virtues of some killer new metal releases… Them Bulls – Them Bulls There are rock purists that feel that stoner rock is too…well, rock…to be swallowed under the blackening umbrella of heavy metal. Those purists don’t understand the history of metal … More More (Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – September 2016
Our monthly look at the non-metal albums that have been in recent heavy rotation… Darkher – Realms I wanted to badly to give this album the full review treatment (hell, I still might) because honestly there have been few albums this year I’ve listened to as often as Realms. U.K.’s Darkher, the alias for … More More (Non-Metal) Guitar in the Monitor – September 2016
Another monthly installment of metal albums that having been in heavy rotation in The Metal Dad household. Vanhelgd – Temple of Phobos I’ve waxed poetic for the last few months now about just how many great death metal albums have hit the streets so far in 2016. Just when I think the worldwide death … More More (Metal) Guitar In the Monitor – August 2016
Another installment of the recently released, non-metal albums in heavy rotation… The CarLeans – Drowning Moon Made up of some very talented New London scene vets, The CarLeans are, quiet honestly, one of the sweetest sounding acts around these parts. Their newest album, Drowning Moon, is not just a step forward for the band, … More More (Non-Metal) Guitar In the Monitor – August 2016
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
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