One hundred albums down in our countdown of Dave Steed’s 300 best metal albums of all time. This week, Sabbath, Danzig, Black Label Society, Slipknot and more!
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Bottom Feeders is on Cloud 9 this week with solo material from the Red Rocker, a Blondie and a Beatle.
Dimmu Borgir releases a new album and gasp, it’s good. Plus epic metal from Atlantean Kodex and the soundtrack to your next renaissance fair in this week’s metal reviews.
Ten more albums in our list of the 300 metal albums that will kick your ass, featuring Nuclear Assault, Immortal, Deicide, Motorhead and more.
This week Bottom Feeders goes all Red Square on your ass. And there’s something for the hippies too in the Rock End of the ’80s.
It’s a headbangers delight this week with reviews of the kick-ass new albums from Enslaved, October Tide, Swashbuckle, James LaBrie and more.
The 19th week brings us the start of the 7th letter of the alphabet. Just a few artists here, but some killer songs as we continue to look at the…
In this week’s new metal reviews, Dave Steed prays Serj Tankian will reform System of a Down, Flotsam and Jetsam give him the shivers and half-hour long doom tracks are spotlighted.
This week we’re looking at numbers 220-211 in our trek to look at the 300 metal albums on my iPod, in the order I prefer them. It’s a little thrash…
Part 18 is a short one in order to make a clean break from the letter F, but most of the songs are quality and that’s what counts, right? Enjoy some…
Linkin Park, A Thousand Suns (Warner Bros.) If you have been brought here by simply clicking on a link after running a Google search for ”Linkin Park Rules” and are…
Can you believe it? Accept is back! Now that’s pretty cool, you have to admit. To me Accept was always extremely hit or miss. Some of their stuff like the…
This past Tuesday marked my first metal show in ages. With a kid and a wife who likes pop and country music, getting out to metal gigs just doesn’t happen…
So a few weeks ago I get this e-mail from a girl named Liz which directs me to her website. Now normally, I don’t really post links to other people’s…
Suicidal Tendencies, No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family (Suicidal Records) There were just so many thoughts running through my mind when I heard about this release. The first studio album in…
My apologies for going AWOL last week. The family was sick and well, sickness wins over metal sometimes. But the kick-ass metal is back! With False Metal, Dead! we’re taking…
We move on this week to the sixth letter of the alphabet and look at more tunes that hit the Billboard rock charts in the 1980s but failed to cross…
Just like when I did the Popdose Guide to Prince I’m a little sad to see it come to an end but I certainly won’t need to hear any more…
Week 15 brings us the start and the finish of the letter E. Gotta love when that happens. Well, gotta love it when it includes some better songs. I don’t…
Christian Mistress, Agony & Opium (20 Buck Spin) I really want to call bullshit on this one. There is just no way that the debut EP from Christian Mistress isn’t…
Continuing along the path to #1, we continue looking at the 300 metal records on my iPod! 240. Dew Scented, Invocation (2010) Seriously bad band name. Seriously good group. Dew…
We’ve moved on to part 3 of the Popdose Guide to Buckethead. Parts 1 and 2 consisted of his solo works while parts 3 and 4 are going to focus…
It’s the last week for the letter D, as we take a look at more tracks that hit the Rock charts but failed to cross over to the Billboard Hot…
BXI, BXI (Southern Lord) Boris = fucking weird Ian Astbury = fucking cool So if I’m to take the title of this collaboration literally then I should multiply B X…
We’re 50 albums into this list of the 300 metal albums docked on my iPod. Enjoy ten more as we inch slowly to the top! 250. Electric Wizard, Come My…
In part one we took a gander at the first 13 Buckethead “solo” albums. We’ll close out with the final 15 before moving on to his group projects in Part…
If you’re new to this series, we’re taking an alphabetical look at the rock and modern rock charts from the ’80s, touching base on all songs that failed to cross…
Dear Mr. Wylde, It’s easy to see you have an immense amount of talent. Ever since I listened to the Blessed Hellride in 2003 I keep purchasing your new Black…
Bonded by Blood is regularly cited as one of the top bands that’s a part of the thrash metal revival movement (I’ve never seen this listed as TMRM but c’mon…
Let’s get this out of the way up front — I hate Miley Cyrus and especially her 80-year-old chain smokers voice. That has nothing to do with the Brother Clyde…