Between Nine Inch Nails 1989 debut album “Pretty Hate Machine” and 1994’s highly influential “The Downward Spiral” were a pair of EPs entitled “Broken” and “Fixed” which sowed the seeds that would become that sophomore record. The first of those, “Broken” saw something of a style shift from essentially darkwave gothic 80’s inspired synth pop
Hugely successful Australian grunge act Silverchair started out their career back in 1995, when the band members were only 15 years old, dropping their debut album via major label Epic Records. The physical appearance of vocalist and guitarist Daniel Johns being similar to the late Kurt Cobain was something that his widow Courtney Love found
1999 may have been the height of Nu-Metal but that wasn’t the only Metal Music around. The second album of life after Danzig “Famous Monsters” surfaced from the Black Lagoon from Horror Punk legends Misfits fronted by Michale Graves. It may have received mixed reviews but that may have been more about who fronted the band
Is it time we put the Riff Police series to bed? Hell No. There’s more tongue in cheek humor and rib tickling fun to be had at the expense of a few bands who let someone else’s guitar licks get inside their head and didn’t realize before they’d inked a track of their down with
July 1988 saw the release of the hilariously titled “Frolic Through The Park“, the sophomore album from San Francisco bay area Thrash Metallers Death Angel. It’s earned the band the leap to major label Geffen Records and being a more diverse album that the bands debut including a cover of “Cold Gin” by Kiss seemed
In an interview with Kerrang! Magazine back in October 2006, Cradle Of Filth frontman Dani Filth said of “From The Cradle To Enslave“, the title track from the Suffolk Extreme Metallers 1999 EP “We have to play it at every gig. I’d like to erase it, so I wouldn’t have to play it again. After
We’ve heard the cries for a heavier entry in the Riff Police notebook so it’s time to pitch two Deathcore Heavyweights, who perhaps don’t like being considered Deathcore head to head. Back in September 2007, Suicide Silence unleashed their beast of an album “The Cleansing“, a fan favourite which was recorded and engineered by John Travis
Back in 2012, the highly influential “L’Enfant Sauvage” from Gojira was met by Universal critical acclaim when it was released by Roadrunner Records. The Frenchmen had created a masterpiece that combines Technical Death Metal, Progressive and Groove styles and in the first week alone shipped almost three times as many copies as it’s predecessor “The
When it comes to riffs, some just stick in your head. It’s an essential component of what makes a song catchy and memorable. Back in 2003, the third studio album “Self Destructive Pattern” from Los Angeles Californian Industrial Metal band Spineshank was lead by a single that somehow wound up getting nominated in the ‘Best
When Billy Milano played homage to 1990’s “Seasons In The Abyss” by Slayer by inking “Seasoning The Obese” for S.O.D. with that little bit of tongue in cheek humour, it served as a timely reminder of how good the record actually is. Recorded at Hit City West, Hollywood Sound and Record Plant in Los Angeles California,
