Showing posts with label Metal Friday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Metal Friday. Show all posts
Friday, March 21, 2025

The Rage, Judas Priest

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It's a testament to the greatness of British Steel that a song as good as "The Rage" is buried deep on side 2. Wait, do peopl...
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Friday, March 7, 2025

Sign of the Southern Cross, Black Sabbath

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Don't live for pleasure Make life your treasure Fade away
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Friday, February 7, 2025

Cold Sweat, Thin Lizzy

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I love discovering old songs. Few things are more rewarding than stumbling across or being served up in the algorithm an awesome tune, looki...
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Friday, December 13, 2024

Where Eagles Dare, Iron Maiden (for Nicko)

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Job well done. This Metal Friday, a toast to the great Nicko McBrain, who last week called it a day after a career that spanned more than 40...
Friday, December 6, 2024

Season of the Witch, Grave Digger

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Grave Digger... a legendary band with whom I was only lightly acquainted until I saw them open for Blind Guardian circa 2017. I very much en...
Friday, November 15, 2024

Start the Fire, Metal Church

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Metal Friday returns with simple, hard-driving metal. Metal Church and "Start the Fire," off The Dark (1986). Nothing subtle abou...
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Friday, September 6, 2024

Resurrection, Rob Halford

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Let's set the scene for this Metal Friday. In the late 90s heavy metal was in shambles. A Mad Max wasteland, fans squabbling over the li...
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Thursday, August 15, 2024

The Battle of Evermore and the timeless nature of fantasy

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(early metal-ish Friday) That it is told in the language of fantasy is not an accident, or because Tolkien was an escapist, or because he wa...
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Friday, July 26, 2024

Orion, Metallica

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My metal summer continues, and so Metal Friday continues, with Metallica.  "Orion" oozes nostalgia and loss, which I'm possibl...
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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...
Friday, May 31, 2024

Worms of the Earth, Eternal Champion

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I found out last night that Eternal Champion bass player Brad Raub passed away, just 36 years old . So on this Metal Friday I honor his memo...
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Friday, May 17, 2024

As heavy as I’ll go

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Slayer and Sepultura… really no heavier than that. There’s no need, from my perspective. I can’t do cookie monster vocals. That means that D...
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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....
Friday, May 19, 2023

If Heaven is Hell, Tokyo Blade

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I was too young to appreciate the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (aka., NWOBHM, love that fucking acronym) back when it washed up on Americ...
Saturday, May 13, 2023

Edge of Thorns, Savatage

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Metal Friday is a day late this week but I'm just getting back from a business trip to Chicago that has me all sorts of out of sorts. 12...
Friday, May 5, 2023

RIP to Canada's finest singer-songwriter, Gordon Lightfoot

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Gordon Lightfoot is probably—nay, definitely—not metal. Not even metal-adjacent.  Yet he is the subject of this Metal Friday. For obvious re...
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Saturday, April 22, 2023

Judas Priest, "Traitors Gate"

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Close your eyes, listen to the dude signing this song. Try to reconcile what you're hearing with a man (then) in his late 60s.  Impressi...
Friday, April 7, 2023

Caught in the Middle, Ronnie James Dio

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Metal Friday this week, we're going with an upbeat rocker from the late, great Ronnie James Dio.  "Caught in the Middle" is no...
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Friday, March 31, 2023

En Force, Queensryche

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The Warning ... feels a little more prescient every day. We plead for the signs, give us a second chance In hopes it will stifle the fear Th...
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Friday, March 17, 2023

Iron Maiden, "Stranger in a Strange Land"

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Iron Maiden is perhaps my favorite metal band of all time. "Stranger in a Strange Land" is perhaps my favorite Iron Maiden song. W...
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