It takes a lot of guts to cover a much loved and well known classic. In our eyes at least, the finest covers are those that find the musicians taking it on putting their own spin on the original and making it their own rather than doing a note for note remake that sounds identical
It has often felt from the outside at least that Anthrax were seen as the lesser light of the so called Big Four but not in these parts as the New Yorkers soldier on. Today we’re rewinding the tape back to 1987 and arguably the bands signature move in “Indians“, the first single from the
Back in the Nu-Metal era there was plenty of talk of who was able to bring the World’s of Rap and Rock together with the best results. Anthrax and Public Enemy, Limp Bizkit and Method Man, KoRn and Ice Cube all conspired to create tracks together to name but a few but the biggest surprise
It’s strange how often people don’t understand art at the time at which it’s unveiled but grow to love it decades later. In the case of “Pornography” from The Cure, an album which brought the band to the edge of self destruction with drug fueled recording sessions, despite not being received that well by critics,
When an album receives accolades like “49th greatest Guitar Album of all Time” from Guitar World Magazine and “5th greatest Metal Album of The 21st Century” from Metal Hammer Magazine then you know it’s one you should be checking out. 18 years ago in 2004 inspired by the events that took place during the war in
The last single featuring the classic Motörhead line-up of Lemmy, “Fast” Eddie Clarke and Phil “Philthy Animal” Taylor, as Clarke left following the recording of the “Stand By Your Man” EP, a collaboration with the Plasmatics, “Iron Fist” has to be one of the British heavy metal highlights of 1982. Covered by many, feared by
Nancy Sinatra may have worn the boots but she can’t have known that after having had such a huge hit in 1966 with the song “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” written by American Country and Pop singer Lee Hazlewood that there would have been so many covers of the cut floating around 56 years
Ahead of the 26th August releasing tenth Machine Head album “Of Kingdom And Crown“, a concept album loosely based on the Japanese dark fantasy anime television series “Attack on Titan” it seemed right to take a moment to remind ourselves of just how influential the band have been over the past 31 years.
Let’s be honest for a moment. Reading Festival hasn’t been a Festival that has had Metal acts for a very long time so the announcement of Rage Against The Machine as a headliner was an odd one, especially seeing as there were no similar acts to play before them. The Festival organizers must have paid
“…I push my fingers into my eyes, It’s the only thing that slowly stops the ache, But it’s made of all the things I have to take, Jesus, it never ends, it works it’s way inside, If the pain goes on, I’m not gonna make it, All I’ve got, all I’ve got is insane, All
