Urm the Mad was the first Protector album I managed to come across out in the wild, and I recall being thrown off a little at the beginnin...

It's never my intention to 'prematurely' shit all over a band when I'm revisiting their discography with somewhat fresh ears...

The difference between Violent Termination and Signs of Life is like night and day. That album was an insipid junkyard of dead-end ideas, ...

Secrets in a Weird World might not be my #1 top choice within the extensive and impressive Rage catalogue, but this is by far the album I t...

In 1989, as a steel-struck teenager, I was so hyped up on Helloween that I bought this live cassette the instant I first laid eyes upon it ...

Although there wasn't terribly much of a stigma attached to the third Onslaught record when it dropped at the end of the 80s, it's ...

"Invisible Horizons" is hands down one of my favorite Rage tunes ever, and in a just world it would have been one of the hugest m...

Once upon a time, The Peel Sessions was like an MTV Unplugged , only for cool people, featuring cooler bands, and not unplugged. John Pee...

I had encountered the name Rostok Vampires a handful of times through the 80s and early 90s, probably referenced in some zines, or perhap...

Having seen Finland thrive over the last 20 years in just about every niche of metal that exists, with a particular emphasis in the melodi...

'Neo-classical' might not be the right word to describe Helstar 's later 80s material, but records like Nosferatu , or its mut...

The 'deformed' and the 'defective' have always had a safe harbor in the horror genre, playing to the superficiality and co...

Perhaps one of the least distinctive bands on the entire Noise Records roster (along with Grinder ), Morecambe's D.A.M. was snapped u...

I think it's understandable that many metal fans at large became familiar with the Finnish scene through either its death or black met...

Poster-children for the 'surplus' of the 80s thrash underground here in the USA, Texans Angkor Wat seemed forever consigned to th...

Believer was one of the forerunners in a wave of technical, compelling Christian thrash acts dropping albums in the later 80s, including ...

Something I rarely seen spoken of Nothingface is just how prescient it was, not in terms of its outlandish musical aesthetic, but as a wo...