Music fan. Based on Long Island, NY.
Concert Reviews
Let me start off by saying flatly and plainly: I’ve never really been much a festival guy. The idea of standing for three days straight watching band after band play truncated sets never really appealed to me. Festivals are a young man’s game, and I fear that this
Interviews
If you’re familiar with Håvard Ellefsen, better known as Mortiis, then you know that his musical career has evolved and changed many times since he was a member of Emperor in their founding years. Since departing the legendary black metal group in 1992, Mortiis embarked on a solo career
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Though it may seem that Lex Legion took the metal world by storm a few months ago by announcing their debut album in late March, the project boasting four of the five members of the classic late 1980s King Diamond lineup that created Them and Conspiracy had been in the
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From a young age, everyone around her seemed to know that Tarja Turunen would have a future in music due to her incredible voice. What many didn’t see coming though, was the way in which that voice would become part of a groundbreaking style of music that essentially created
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Though they’ve been together since 1982, and known each other for even longer, you might be surprised to learn that Armored Saint has only released eight studio albums to date despite their long history as a band. When it’s released on May 22nd through Metal Blade Records, Emotion
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For over thirty years, Russell Allen has had one of the most powerful voices in heavy metal music. Through his work as frontman for progressive metal titans Symphony X, performances with Trans-Siberian Orchestra, solo work, and a number of collaborations, Allen has come to be known the power, grit,
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How do you describe something that you never thought you’d see? That’s the task I’m faced with trying to explain the performances I witnessed on February 26th and 27th at Tavastia in Helsinki as the surviving members of Children of Bodom reunited for the first time in
Album Reviews
If you know the history of Corrosion of Conformity, you know that the band’s members aren’t exactly strangers to adversity. Over the last 44 years since forming in Raleigh, North Carolina, there have been numerous events and situations that have tested the mettle of these legends, and time
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Call it cliché, but the namesake of the first record Zakk Wylde ever performed on back in 1988 with Ozzy Osbourne could very easily be used to define his illustrious career to this point. When Black Label Society releases their twelfth studio album titled Engines of Demolition on March 27th,
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Throughout the long and storied history of American heavy metal legends Corrosion of Conformity’s existence, Woody Weatherman has been the only consistent member since the group started way back in 1982 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Being the sole constant in the band, he’s been witness to a number
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When two teenagers from the suburbs of Helsinki traveled three hours northeast to Lappeenranta during the summer of 1995 to knock on the door to the basement of a church, they might not have known at the time that the man who answered would become integral in helping them achieve
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Before meeting him, a future bandmate of Chuck Billy’s recalled seeing him work his way to front row of a KISS concert in this way: “One figure stood out among the carnage, someone so large, he could push his way through anyone else in that crowd. With a height