Showing posts with label Metal Friday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Metal Friday. Show all posts
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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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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