Showing posts with label Heavy Metal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heavy Metal. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Gone to the Wolves by John Wray, a review

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80s metal... take me back. Heavy metal ebbs and flows in my veins—but never runs dry. Even as alternative forms of audio entertainment from ...
Monday, January 13, 2025

Celebrating Rob Zombie, graphic artist, at sixty

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Master of many arts, including graphic. Editor's note: We don't get many offers to guest post here on The Silver Key, but here's...
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Sunday, December 29, 2024

The Silver Key: 2024 in review

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Life is pretty good these days, both personally and creatively. Even though I slowed down a bit on the blog, I’m making an impact. Life is i...
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Saturday, December 7, 2024

Of the year in writing, and reading--memoir update and more

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I went outside yesterday to take in the trash barrel and pick up the mail (exciting stuff--I’m a rock star, in case you haven’t realized tha...
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Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Sons of Albion awake: Of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Fall of Arthur and Iron Maiden

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You'll probably want to read this. The King Arthur myth is ubiquitous and timeless because it is powerful and its themes universal. The...
Monday, November 11, 2024

A review of Iron Maiden, Nov. 9 2024, Prudential Center, Newark New Jersey

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Me, Scott, and $22 beer. Last week I was hanging out with some younger colleagues at a work retreat, and a few expressed amazement to learn ...
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Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Rest in peace, Paul Di'Anno

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He's running free... Punk music bloomed in the mid 1970s and by the end of the decade had permeated the popular culture. Just as Iron Ma...
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Friday, September 20, 2024

Neither Beg Nor Yield, a review

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This book can have none more attitude . Neither Beg Nor Yield is an ass-kicking sword-and-sorcery anthology that you should read. This thin...
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Monday, August 5, 2024

A review of Metallica, August 2nd 2024, Gillette Stadium

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Nosebleed seats but what a view! Metallica isn’t the best heavy metal band on the planet (that would be Iron Maiden or Judas Priest, take yo...
Sunday, June 30, 2024

The analog kid—some reflections on music and technology and Into the Void

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Spiraling into a (digital) void... I recently finished Geezer Butler’s biography Into the Void . A fun and interesting read for many reasons...
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Friday, June 28, 2024

Force of a Storm, Sumerlands

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My last Metal Friday post on the passing of Eternal Champion bass player Brad Raub resulted in some recommendations and a brief but pleasant...
Monday, May 13, 2024

Why we need fantasy: Some thoughts from a Blind Guardian concert, May 11, 2024 at the Worcester Palladium

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I'm in there! Somewhere back left... No one ever dares to speak It's nothing else but fantasy It's make believe, Make believe No...
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Friday, May 10, 2024

Curse My Name, Blind Guardian

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They plead for their king  And they pity their lord  Put him to death, that's what I say It's been a while since I did one of these....
Monday, April 22, 2024

A review of Judas Priest, April 19 Newark NJ

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Scott (of Scott's Thoughts) and I waiting for the metal madness. I love heavy metal culture, unapologetically. These days it’s not quite...
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