Metal Milestones
September 5, 2024What is the Metal that made you? Not necessarily the greatest Heavy albums of all time, or even your personal…
Best 75 Albums Of The Decade: 2000-2009
August 19, 2024Best 75 Albums Of The Decade: 2000-2009 My fellow Metal Hall writer, Jack Mangan, has inspired me with his laundry…The 200 Best Metal Songs of the 21st Century, so far – – part 2
August 12, 2024Here it is, the second part of the list begun in The 200 Best Metal Songs of the 21st Century,…The 200 Best Metal Songs of the 21st Century, so far – – part 1
August 7, 202421st Century Metal Man* It’s been a hell of a 21st century, so far. The internet is soon going to…Hymns From The Metal Church Parish
July 7, 2024Many, many years ago, on a distant shore (specifically, the Pacific Northwest), Metal Church was born. Four decades, four recorded…Death and Black Metal Pioneers of the 1980s – Possessed, Venom, Bathory, Celtic Frost, Mercyful Fate
June 12, 2024By Rich Catino and Jack Mangan The 80s was the golden era of Heavy Metal, much of it by today's…Judas Priest – Never Forget
May 11, 2024The music that matters most to us in our formative years often helps us to figure out who we are,…Terrible Songs From Brilliant Albums, Part 4
April 4, 2024Even masterpieces can have imperfections. Sometimes those flaws contrast the overall brilliance, paradoxically elevating the greatness of the piece. Or…The Band That Walked the Line
March 9, 2024The Signs were everywhere in 1990. A certain strain of Heavy Metal had become commercialized and commodified to ascend the…Don’t Call It Hair Metal: Part 3, 90-93ish & the Canadians
March 9, 2024By: Rich Catino “Hair”, Glam Metal’s last stand before hard rock music changed as grunge, alternative, and later in the…
