Hellfest 2018: The Preview
Pointless are the summers without music festivals. Hellfest, though, is beyond any definition of rock music festival. It gathers in one place the legends you…
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Event preview: Scream For Me Sarajevo + Prismind @ HFF, 11 Nov 2017
When I found out that this year the Hamilton Film Festival (HFF) is screening a documentary featuring Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden I was…
Happy 35th Birthday to… Iron Maiden’s The Number Of The Beast
Happy 35th birthday today to Iron Maiden’s The Number of The Beast. What an album!
AMATEUR CONCERT PHOTOGRAPHY HOUR: TOP 10 CONCERTS OF 2016
Though I seem to have seen fewer concerts this year, what 2016 lacked in concert quantity, it more than made up for in quality. In any given year, any of this year’s Top Six could have easily been Number One, but when it comes to the overall best live concert experience, the winner was undisputed.
Happy 30th Birthday to… Iron Maiden’s Somewhere In Time
Thirty years ago today Iron Maiden released their sixth studio album, the progressively tinged Somewhere In Time. Following up the incredible success of the…
BOOK REVIEW – The Explosive Early Years of the NWOBHM
Wheels of Steel: The Explosive Early Years of the NWOBHM by Martin Popoff (Power Chord Press) It’s now over 20 years since Riff Kills…
Satan – Atom by Atom
Usually each year we’re faced with much uncertainty when hearing new metal music, especially a band with veterans such as Satan. But we have…
Helloween – My God-Given Right
There is indeed no happy medium with Euro-metal, either it is very good or very bad. Thankfully, on this album, Helloween are very good….
Iron Maiden – The Book of Souls
Whenever any of us listen to music, we bring the sum of our knowledge and experiences along for the ride. Those elements are called…
Full Metal Parenting #6: Mike Scheidt Interview
When Craig had the crazy idea that we start a column about heavy metal parenting and that we include interviews with “heavy metal parents,”…