No Words: The Versatile Role of the Instrumental on the Classic Metal Album Sometimes, all you need is the music. Literally, just the music. No vocals. I’ve always been a huge fan of a fully instrumental track.
A Light in the Black: Seven Songs That Explain the History and Legacy of Rainbow If you grew up in the late 1980s and early 1990s like I did, you think you know all you need to know about classic
A Series of Unfortunate Concert Events…and Some (Written) Rules to Enhance Your Experience I’ve been to a lot of different shows in a lot of different places lately. And what I’ve been seeing has been making
I’m Judge and I’m Jury and I’m Executioner, Too: Who Deserves the Most Blame for Metallica’s St. Anger? I regret to inform you all that I had a very unfortunate experience about a week ago. I listened to Metallica’s 2003 release, St.
Old Bands Making New Music: Metallica's "72 Seasons" Metallica’s 11th studio album, 72 Seasons, was released worldwide this morning after a few months of hype and promotion. The band announced the new
Merch Madness: How I Infiltrated the Concert Poster Community (or... How I Became a Huge Concert Poster Nerd) It’s 90 degrees on a Sunday morning in St. Louis. I’m standing on line outside the Enterprise Center, home of the NHL’s
Getting Loaded: A Retrospective on Load and Reload Metallica is one of the undisputed greatest metal bands of all time. Their meteoric rise from the underground San Francisco thrash scene in the early
