Every time there's a new morbid bludgeon going on in the current death metal underground, the origin of the that cadaverous formula i...

Grand Belial’s Key is one of the more recognizable bands from the overcrowded USBM “scene” and a favourite of mine. Influenced by p...

Necronomicon formed way back in 1983 but didn’t get a demo out until 1985 (they released 2 demos that year, actually) and released their...

Although at the time there was Devastation, who delivered their smoldering masterpiece two years later, Gammacide were ultimately the mos...

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...