Showing posts with label Heavy Metal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heavy Metal. Show all posts
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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Saturday, April 13, 2024

Metal spring (and summer) kicking off, plus metal memoir update

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This spring and summer I’ve got four bands/five shows on the docket. We get started this Friday with the legendary Judas Priest, touring in ...
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Monday, April 1, 2024

Scott's Thoughts II: On sincerity

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(Editor’s note: Scott’s Thoughts are occasional guest posts penned by my friend Scott. And by occasional, I mean, once every sixteen years o...
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Saturday, March 23, 2024

One of those mind-blowing I'm old/time is short/all a matter of perspective/WTF type posts

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The first time I saw Black Sabbath live was on the Ozzfest tour, Mansfield MA, June 1997. 27 years ago. Black Sabbath released its debut alb...
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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Of internet induced “Panic Attack” and Judas Priest’s Invincible Shield

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False metal cowers before this shield. Even as I’m feeling dragged down by the state of “reality” such as we know it, I’m buoyed, once again...
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Saturday, December 23, 2023

The Silver Key: 2023 in review

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It’s the tail end of 2023. Another trip round the sun, another year of blogging on The Silver Key. Many things of import happened this year....
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Monday, October 9, 2023

October reading update

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I set an annual reading goal of 52 books. Which I rarely meet, but it gives me a north star to steer toward. To have any shot of reaching th...
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Friday, July 28, 2023

Remembering Manilla Road's Mark Shelton, heavy metal bard of sword-and-sorcery

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Ben Davidson of Conan the Barbarian fame? Nope, Mark Shelton. Yesterday marked the 5 year anniversary of the death of Mark Shelton, founder ...
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Sunday, July 2, 2023

A very metal 50th birthday

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50. I celebrated a milestone birthday this past week at the Outer Banks, Corolla NC. This was not conceived as a "Murph's 50th"...
Saturday, January 21, 2023

Top 5 Manowar Songs

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Metal Friday is a day late this week but coming in hot, ready to smash your face in with the death tone of amplified guitars and massive ham...
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Sunday, November 6, 2022

An observation about heavy metal and sword-and-sorcery

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Blue Cheer and Deep Purple = Lord Dunsany and James Branch Cabell Black Sabbath = Robert E. Howard Judas Priest and Iron Maiden = Fritz Leib...
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Friday, October 28, 2022

Iron Maiden: No compromises

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Me and Scott... and 24 oz. Miller Lite It strikes me that I haven’t reviewed nor mentioned the recent Iron Maiden show I attended last Frida...
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