As quickly as it arose, the sub-sub-genre I was fond of calling 'hyper-pop metal' has already faded into the background of whatever ...

I am an indecisive person by nature. When decisions come along, I am one of those people who will assume every choice is wrong, and I am mer...

For some people, including me, Black Sabbath begins and ends with Ronnie James Dio. The combination of Dio and Tony Iommi proved to be one o...

In 1986, Elvis Costello was in a difficult place. His artistic wanderlust was blooming, and his desire to escape the image his early years h...

(There is, very occasionally, an album of such import that Chris and I both feel the need to take it on. I purposefully wrote this without ...

My thoughts might be starting to turn to what the end of the year means, but there are still new songs we need to talk about. Tony Iommi ...

The 'Overton Window'... in politics it is the concept that the most extreme positions get thrown into the discourse to make the true...

First things first.  If any listener should take on Dead Poet Society’s new album Monarch without the benefit of proper speakers, the list...

If life is like a box of chocolates, every choice is tempting fate that you're not going to hit the coconut one. In musical terms, one o...

This year marks the fifteenth anniversary of "Hisingen Blues", which was the first time Graveyard came to my attention. My colleag...