The Blerd Radio team ( Big Money, Michael Parr , The Packet Man & Dr. Z ) created a lengthy (and pretty intense) podcast about being record geeks, a topic that’s pretty much the reason this podcast even exists. Then Big Money’s Macbook shit the bed (why am I talking about myself in the third person?), taking the podcast with it. After a couple weeks to regroup, the team is back and we’re talking about another topic near and dear to our hearts: nostalgia. This article is a good jumping off point for the podcast , as all three […]
Posts tagged "metal"
Soulfly, Savages: Album Review
I am not sure whether Max Cavalera is at a point in his career where he feels he can rest and let his sons carve their own paths as they ‘guest,’ on his Soulfly albums or if he’s honestly just taking a piss these days? I mean, I feel like a fish trying to swim upstream only to die when listening to Soulfly albums since 2005’s Dark Ages. Each album since has had a couple highlights but have mostly been disappointing. […]
DevilDriver, Winter Kills: Album Review
Dez Fafara and the boys are back with another blessed hellride on DevilDriver’s sixth album, Winter Kills. ‘You sold me out, I sold myself in/you dealt me out/I dealt myself in…’ or so the story goes on ‘The Oath of The Abyss,’ the lead-off track, Dez’s signature howl in full horn’s up form. ‘Ruthless,’ follows with opening guitars reminiscent of The Smashing Pumpkins 2007 single, ‘Tarantula,’ before launching into an almost Coal Chamber-like sing-along verse course verse. It’s definitely one of […]
Deep Purple, Now What?!: Album Review
Let’s start with a bit of an opinionated, music snob mini-rant: Deep Purple is one of the most important and too-oft overlooked bands in rock history. If one looks at their obvious and strong influence on hundreds of bands and the multitude of musicians who flat-out credit Deep Purple with inspiring them to do what they do, it’s shocking how frequently their music is completely absent from the collection of many rock fans. Quite often, the average […]
The Patlapse Compilation: Celebrating and Remembering a Friend
A digital compilation memorializes one of the metal community’s biggest supporters, Relapse Records’ Pat Egan.
Newsted, Metal: The Spin Cycle Review
Jason Newsted is back. After years experimenting, Newsted is revisiting thrash metal in a glorious fashion. If you felt like Death Magnetic almost got it right, you’ll find that Metal is the final piece to complete that puzzle. It’s actually like a continuation of …And Justice For All and while Newsted might not have those Hetfieldian pipes, he sure makes up for it in true grit. “Soldierhead” kicks things off with a Motorhead inspired thrashfest and continues into the thunderous […]
Newsted, “Soldierhead”: The Singles Bar Review
Newsted returns to metal with “Soldierhead” off the upcoming Metal EP.
Spin Cycle: The Darkness, Hot Cakes
Almost a decade after Permission to Land and “I Believe in a Thing Called Love”, The Darkness once again rock out with their collective cock out. Popblerd reviews “Hot Cakes”.
Spin Cycle: Halestorm’s “The Strange Case of…Halestorm”
“That bitch can eat her heart out!” That sums up nicely what Lzzy Hale is going for throughout her band’s new offering, The Strange Case of…Halestorm. She seems to be saying “don’t you wish you were me, girls? I completely rock and am still totally a chick about the whole thing. Keep reading Cosmo, but you’ll never get your hands on this secret sauce.” And chances are good that they never will. Many girl-fronted rock acts fall quickly into self-parody […]
Spin Cycle: Adrenaline Mob’s “Omerta”
This is a really good metal album. That may sound like an overly-simplistic statement, but I open by saying that because I was braced for metal supergroup mediocrity. Instead, what was delivered is a nice surprise of competent, aggressive, and often interesting songs that dance closely on both sides of the line between traditional metal and the more commercial metal sound of the past few years. In case metal isn’t your usual primary genre (or you claim to be […]
Mastodon & Opeth Announce Tour Dates!
Want your face melted? Of course you do!! Beardy metal guys Mastodon are heading out on tour this summer, and they are bringing equally cool (but Swedish, so potentially more cool…) metal folk Opeth out with them. The tour begins next door to me in Portland, ME and wraps in Atlanta a month and change later. Want to know what all those Ms and Os in parentheses are? They serve as an indicator of who’s closing the show (in case […]