Tag Ozzy
The sound of this band of 14 years is described as “a brutal mix of traditional metal metal meets 90s hardcore type sounds metal and a stoner-in-thrash alley”. The key here, I suspected, was always going to be the energy… Continue Reading →
Canada in recent times and very much in part of heavy metal history has given us some great bands. I found Manacle a while back whilst flipping through recommendations on band camp and YouTube. This heavy/speed metal band feature members… Continue Reading →
2015 sees Orange Goblin celebrate 20 years, and already they have announced a pretty special show at London’s Desertfest playing their classic ‘The Big Black’ in its entirety as well as doubtless a few special surprises. Yet, despite that, and… Continue Reading →
Formed in 1999 as a collaboration between Stuck Mojo’s Rich Ward and WWE superstar Chris Jericho, Fozzy have been kicking about for the better part of 15 years now. Originally playing covers, in 2003 the band dropped their back stories… Continue Reading →
Hailing from Bremen these boys are preparing to unleash their debut album on a world that has already had Sabbath worship aplenty over the last decade. This is more of the same. Opener Won’t Come Down is so Ozzy era… Continue Reading →
A Norwegian Rock n Roll band? Hmmmm….. wait!! Before you throw it back in my face, let me just point out that Shagrath from Dimmu is in the band! Yep! Who knew the wee fella had a burning desire to… Continue Reading →
The idea behind this book which is expanded title wise to ‘Saints and survivors of the heavy metal scene’ could not be simpler. Take 20 infamous stars of said scene and divide them in half, one half being those who… Continue Reading →
There are some bands that manage to effortlessly evoke the good old days and, if those good old days were had in the back room of a random pub in Northern Germany listening to heavy metal cover bands, then Carbid!… Continue Reading →
Texan stoner metallers ‘The Sword’ were formed in 2003. After writing on his own for a while, Vocalist/Guitarist John decided to form a band with guitarist Kyle and Drummer Trivett. Their first demo was released in 2003 named ‘Age of… Continue Reading →
Mercia’s doom ‘n’ roll kings have been playing some remarkable music since their debut release in 2010, I have had the pleasure of catching them live a few times and the one thing that sticks out in general, and again… Continue Reading →