There was a time, back in day when going down to the local record store and flicking through the albums on the rack in the Metal section ment that a potentially decent album was easy to spot. For us, at the height of Roadrunner Records, their logo was the seal of approval and if that
1995 saw Isla Vista, Californian hard rockers Ugly Kid Joe release their second album “Menace To Sobriety”. Having gained huge commercial success with their cover of “Cats In The Cradle” by Harry Chapin, they headed to the studio with Producer GGGarth Palacio Del Rio, Santa Barbara and recorded arguably some of their heaviest material to date. The
Society 1. An Industrial Metal band perhaps more famous for frontman Matt Zane breaking records for hanging from Meat hooks through his back during the bands sets than their actually music. Some have even gone as far as so say that the best thing to come out of Society 1 was guitarist Sin Quirin joining
We have had a long love affair with Northern Irish Thrash Metallers Gamma Bomb. Stylistically firmly blood rooted in the 1980s and treading the fine line that is Thrash played at Punk speed with lyrics ranging from Science Fiction to Horror via the odd socially and politically aware tune, who wouldn’t want to listen to
For so many Pantera were a band that could do no wrong. The Arlington Texas quartet recorded what turned out to be their final album in 1999 with Sterling Winfield at the production helm as more of an assistant for Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell than anything else. He’d later go on and do the
Fusing Power and Speed Metal subgenres and hailing from Orebro, Sweden are Wolf. Touring the globe since 1995 with everyone from Saxon to Trivium, their self-titled album dropped in April 1999 via Prosthestic Records after a trio of demos and a pair of singles. It was an all Swedish affair, recorded and mixed at The Abyss
Taking their band name from the word for the surgical removal of a kidney, Nephrectomy hail from Denver, Colorado and specialise in Brutal Death Metal. Originally formed in 2008 as Twatrot before renaming in 2012 and specialising in lyrical themes of Gore, Perversion, Fetishism and even Zoophilia, they have some pretty extreme cover art in their back
Given some of the comments we’ve received on this piece we’re going to take a moment to talk about what it’s about. Anyone can get the grossest, bloodiest, goriest album art work and say “this is hideous” and shouldn’t exit. That’s not what this is about. It’s about Artwork that makes you look at it
Today we’re going to look at an artwork rip-off that’s as blatant as they come. Cro-Mags iconic hardcore punk album “The Age of Quarrel” is a highly influential masterpiece that practically invented the Crossover Thrash sound and is arguably one of the albums that eventually caused the upsurge in Metallic Hardcore bands. To talk of the
In 1983 Pantera were a little known American band from Arlington Texas formed of the greatly missed Dimebag & Vinnie Paul Abbott alongside Rex Brown who had replaced Tommy D. Bradford a year earlier and then vocalist Terry Glaze. They played Glam Metal in those days and it wasn’t until late 1986 Philip H. Anselmo joined the
