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Judas Priest – Firepower Review

Judas Priest – Firepower Review

By Steel Druhm on March 6, 2018 in 2018, English Metal, Epic Records, Heavy Metal, Reviews, Heavy Metal, 147 comments

“Having spent the last month immersed in the back-catalog of the legendary Judas Priest, a nagging thought kept running wild through my mind. What if I get through this ginormous ranking of the Priest albums, designed to coincide with their latest release, only to hate it and have to bash it? As a life-long fan, that idea didn’t really fill me with joy, but all I could do was grit my teeth, get the countdown done and hope there was a decent album waiting for me on the other side.” Heavy guns on sad wings.

90s Metal Weirdness: Fight – War Of Words

90s Metal Weirdness: Fight – War Of Words

By Dr. Fisting on June 24, 2012 in 90s Metal Weirdness, Blog Posts, English Metal, Heavy Metal, 10 comments

Cast your minds back to a time when metal music was not cool. Nay, indeed, a time when metal was anathema to all that was considered to be “chic” and “in.” A time when your favorite bands were actually encouraged by the music industry to play slower, cut their hair, and write sensitive lyrics about their childhoods. Yes, this unfortunately really happened.

Our new semi-irregular feature “90s Metal Weirdness” focuses on albums released between 1992 and 2001 and which we all probably would rather forget. But in the service of publicly shaming the musicians involved, we have pushed forward. — AMG

Halford – Made of Metal Review

Halford – Made of Metal Review

By Steel Druhm on October 11, 2010 in 2.0, 2010, Heavy Metal, Metal God Records, Heavy Metal, 5 comments

This will come as an unwelcome surprise to Angry Metal folks everywhere, but the new Halford album Made of Metal isn’t angry and is only partly made of metal. Despite the deceptive title, Halford’s third solo album is a diverse but confusing mix of awkward, mostly flawed metal anthems, cheesy love songs with a metallic edge and poppy bubble gum metal/rock. Amid this confusion, only a few quality metal moments can be found. With all due respect to one of the founding fathers of heavy metal and a living legend to many (myself included), the results here are wildly inconsistent and just flat out disappointing.