Compared to the tragic oil spills of creativity the senile Seattle rockers have suffered in more recent times, the eponymous Queensrÿche ...

Screaming for Vengeance represented a return to the level of ambition that Judas Priest had seemingly sidetracked for the previous album...

When you've got a Viking warrior and a fucking polar bear throwing down on your album cover, then you'd damned well better be ready ...

Anvil might have had a pretty good start with Hard 'n' Heavy , but it was the sophomore Metal on Metal that would usher in a new wa...

Mercy was one of a number of early Swedish metal acts around the dawn of the 80s, but the band wouldn't develop much of a sound or foll...

If I were to hazard a guess, I would assume that the majority of the (admittedly small) cache of metal fans out there actually exposed to th...

Every now and then you make a connection with some early piece of aural obscurity, something you've long toiled over but never quite mol...

Nightwing are an obscure treasure of the NWOBHM movement who are still active after 30 years, finally releasing a new full length in 2008. ...

The Top 20 Metal Albums of 1982 01. Venom (UK) - Black Metal 02. Iron Maiden (UK) - The Number of the Beast 03. Judas Priest (UK) - Scre...

A year prior, Paul Di'anno had become a footnote in the annals of one of heavy metal's legendary bands. But who was this new guy? O...

Throughout the 40-ish years of the genre's existence, there have been metal albums which reek of promise and potential, brilliant musici...

Tank were another of the promising NWOBHM bands to dwell at the filthier end of the spectrum; comparisons to Motörhead are obvious as far ...