Every year I sit down to pen this article and every year I’m reminded of just how robust and diverse the music scene is on our little corner of the world. Connecticut may be home to a lot of tiny scenes scattered across the state, but when put together the massive amount of talent that … More Top Connecticut Albums 2024
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)
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
It’s time once again to take look at some of the recent metal releases that are in high rotation at The Metal Dad household. 2022 is off to a great start in the metal world an these three releases are three of the best out so far (in our humble opinion). Maule – MauleMuch like … More More (Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – February 2022
Every year right after New Year’ Day I sit down and look at what metal albums are turning 25 years old, and every year I’m amazed at how much great music existed at that time. 1997 was no exception. Personally speaking, 1997 was one of those college years that seems like just a blur now. … More 1997: 25 Heavy Albums From 25 Years Ago
Every year in this space we post our favorite metal albums of the year. This Top 40 list is accompanied by a two-part episode of The Metal Dad Radio Show where we play tracks from our personal Top 20. Unfortunately, depending on which one posts first it renders the other a little anticlimactic. So this … More The Metal Dad’s Top Metal Albums of 2021
Time once again for our pseudo-monthly look at the metal albums that have been in high rotation in the The Metal Dad household. Cerebral Rot – Excretion of MortalityWe’ve waxed poetic in this space quite a bit over the last few years about the renaissance that death metal has undertaken over the last decade or … More More (Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – July 2021
In previous years I was very strict in my belief that any ‘best of’ list should be reserved for full-length albums. While, I maintained that rule for the three lists we already posted in 2020 – Connecticut albums, Metal albums, and Americana albums – the amount of stellar EPs I found myself gravitating to this … More 2020 Non-Metal EPs of the Year
With this decade coming to a somewhat unceremonious close (or at least that’s how it feels to me), I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the last ten years in music, specifically the music from my backyard here in Connecticut. There are a lot of bands who have come and gone (and come again … More A Decade of CT Music: 2010
Our (pseudo) monthly look at the recent metal releases that warm the cockles of our blackened hearts. Herod – Sombre Dessein No matter how often it happens, there is nothing better than an album coming out of virtually nowhere to knock you right on your ass. Hello Switzerland’s sludge lords, Herod. I’ll be the … More More (Metal) Guitar In The Monitor – February 2019
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