Tag: Savatage

Documentary: Black Metal Werewolf talks Battle Vests!

Alongside the recommendation of 2001’s “Poets And Madmen“, the eleventh studio album by American Heavy Metal act Savatage, Canadian Black Metal Werewolf has returned with a documentary featurette about the humble battle vest. Who doesn’t love a battle vest? It’s not a sales pitch either because while the World and his wife want to sell

Bootleg: “Low” from Testament!

Dedicated to Savatage guitarist Criss Oliva, who died while Testament was working on the album, “Low” is the 1994 released sixth studio album from the Californian Thrash Metal veterans which of course features Death and Obituary guitarist James Murphy. Fast forward to 2017 and the band were on Ronnie James Dio stage at Bloodstock Open

Riff Police! Pull Over! #141: Savatage Vs Sabaton!

Lawyers all over the globe have their ears trained and their pencils sharpened for our weekly lethal dose of possible plaigarism that we do for s**** and giggles because we can. Don’t go writing in folks, it’s just for fun. You know, what we used to get from going to gigs, crowd surfing and… Facing

Review: “Into Chaos” by From The Ruins

Formed in Reno Nevada in 2016, From The Ruins are a Thrash Metal quintet of some repute. Having torn up the West Coast with a sound which is built around the machine gun riffing of Chuck Reyome and Scott Schlingheyde, they cite influences in Death Angel, Kreator and Slayer as well as some of the melody and progressive tendencies of early