The truth hurts. While so many undeserving acts receive recognition and pundits beyond belief, those whose fates are as tragic and fragme...

It's truly a shame how hundreds of obscurities were buried and lost during the clamorous days of early power/heavy metal (1983-1988) ...

Here we have an album that many consider to be one of the most influential Euro-power metal albums of all time, and that wouldn't b...

Even with the sudden thrash surge that was taking over the metal underground in the mid to late eighties, Helloween didn't hop onto t...

Power metal wasn't a full-blown subgenre by the time 1985 rolled around, with only a handful of bands playing the style of music that...

Though Glacier weren’t late comers to the early 80’s power/heavy scene, for some reason they were buried deep in the stockpile of band...

“ The Voice of the Cult ” is Chastain’s fourth album in four years. After releasing their third assault “The 7th of Never,” you would...

If you want to talk about being a productive heavy metal band on the rise, look no further than Chastain . After consecutively releas...

Heavy metal in 1985 was still a morphing and always changing landscape, as there were groups thrashing as hard as they could, bands...

By 1990 all the elements of power metal had been stabilized, and all the classics were already released, rendering the huge portion of...

The early and primitive aesthetics of many metal sub-genres were reached their climax during the time where they were first born, and ...

Even though Heathen's Rage released a demo (though it was more like a full-length, with ten tracks at 35 minutes) before this rele...

We'd better add yet another great album to the list of legendary albums that came out in 1986 with this record. I'm not saying ...

During the late 80's hordes and hordes of power and thrash bands emerged in the US metal scene. Some of these power metal bands such...

Just by glancing at the album art, you can probably tell what you're getting yourself into when it comes time to listen to " R...

When people think of Los Angeles and metal, it's usually the glam scene that people think of. Or just a little later down the line,...

The power metal scene in America during the eighties was easily one of the best scenes around. These bands, whether it be Omen, Jag Pan...

Germany is the Sweden of thrash, a place where you would find hordes of thrash bands. All particularly vicious and savage, the German th...

How fucking sweet is that album cover? It's almost as epic and amazing as the music on the record, which should alone tell you ho...

Aside from the fact that the image depicted on the album cover looks nothing like a battle at the famed Helm's Deep, Attacker did e...