Showing posts with label Metal Friday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Metal Friday. Show all posts
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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Friday, March 3, 2023

Meliah Rage, "Beginning of the End"

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Any other Headbangers Ball fans out there? I remember staying up late one Saturday night to watch this MTV lifeline for metalheads. I was fa...
Friday, February 24, 2023

"Let it Go," Def Leppard

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Sometimes you just need hair metal. Or the equivalent. Def Leppard is close enough.  I'm a fan of Leppard up through and including Hyste...
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Friday, February 10, 2023

Kill Devil Hill, Bruce Dickinson

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It's no secret I'm a Bruce Dickinson fanboy . I straight up think he might have saved heavy metal (or at least, threw me a lifeline...
Friday, January 27, 2023

RUSH--Show Don't Tell (Live)

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Today's Metal Friday is not really metal... but close enough, and IDGAF. It's Rush, and they get to call the shots. This choice is d...
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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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Friday, January 13, 2023

Bible Black, Heaven and Hell

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The late Ronnie James Dio pulled off something of a miracle with the release of The Devil You Know in 2009. Dio was 66 years old, had only...
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Friday, December 16, 2022

Theater of Salvation, Edguy

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Today a sprawling, epic track. 12:22 in length, but awesome the whole way through. Incredibly inspired near-masterpiece by the underrated Ed...
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Friday, December 9, 2022

Manilla Road, "Flaming Metal Systems"

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Damn, I wish I had discovered these dudes decades ago when they were at their peak circa Crystal Logic or thereabouts, and Mark "The S...
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Friday, December 2, 2022

"Thunder Road," Judas Priest

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Point of Entry is not a beloved Judas Priest album. In fact, most view it as a stumbling block in between the off-the-charts iconic brillian...
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Friday, November 18, 2022

Sea of Red

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Late Judas Priest, off their most recent studio album, Firepower. Hits me right in the melancholia/nostalgia sweet spot, remembering those w...
Friday, November 4, 2022

The Clansman, Iron Maiden

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Still riding an Iron Maiden high after seeing the Boys from Britain last week, and so I figured I'm due for another shot of Maiden in th...
Thursday, October 20, 2022

A very metal week: Judas Priest/Queensryche/Iron Maiden

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Not Rob Halford sickness, nor a personal bout with COVID, could stop me from seeing the Metal Gods. I finally caught up with Judas Priest th...
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Friday, September 23, 2022

Headless Cross, Black Sabbath

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I love discovering old shit that I missed in my indifferent, misguided youth. Yet another example: Headless Cross, Black Sabbath's 14 st...
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