In 1996 I was a BMG music customer. I was also one of those customers that always forgot to mail the stupid little card back that said that I didn’t want the “Featured” artist cd. One of the cds that I received because of this was  Dave Mustaine’s project MD.45. I was a bug Megadeth fan back then so needless to say I was excited about this when I got it. The excitement didn’t last long though. The original release of The Craving was a huge disappointment for me. The guitars and everything was cool but the vocals just …read more

In 1996 I was on my way back to Quantico Virginia from upstate New York during my 4 years in the Marine Corps and I decided to stop at a mall in Utica, NY to see what the record store had. I bought a cd that I had been looking for (I think it might have been Misfits Collection 1 or 2) and had a few more bucks to spare so I picked up a 6 song EP from a band that I had heard of but never heard. The name was Grave. How could you go wrong with …read more

The band we all love to hate and all their fans hate the haters and we love that they hate us…WHAT??? I just can’t get into these guys. Tried…didn’t happen. As we all know BFMV is out on tour in support of that new album that I don’t remember the name of and I care too little to look into right now.Anyway, for the fans, here are some more tour dates.
14 additional dates in September have been released for Bullet For My Valentine.  Opening acts will be announced in the near future.

2-Sep Ft. Lauderdale, FL
4-Sep Orlando, FL
5-Sep N. Myrtle Bch, …read more

Old School Review: Judas Priest Metal Works 73-93   
Judas Priest Metal Works 73-93 as they state in the sleeve is not a best of, not a greatest hits record, just great Priest songs from 1973 to 1993. There are other compilations for Judas Priest out there like “The Essential Judas Priest” that have great songs on them too but if you really want the “Essential” Judas Priest, this is it.

In the early 80’s a lot of metal bands got some influence from punk and hardcore bands. One of the greatest hardcore bands, though a lot of people would argue that they are more punk than hardcore are Bad Religion and in a sense a lot of punk was hardcore. Telling of life on the streets, broken homes and speaking of not letting society get them down. Another hardcore band that was a straight edge hardcore band was Minor Threat. Minor Threat while not the most technical was an amazing band in their era and wrote some great tunes …read more

Against my better judgment and suggestions from people, I bought Bullet For My Valentines The Poison. Now I can’t judge their new record because I haven’t heard it. But if it is anything like The Poison then I don’t want to hear it. This was poison to my ears. When it started out I was kinda diggin the guitars and the beats and then they started singing. The scream isn’t bad but the singing sounds just boring, stock, and poppish. I couldn’t get past the 4th song, in fact the best part of this CD is the intro.
I really should …read more

Originally released in 2003, The Soundtrack To The Apocalypse is a must collectible for any Slayer fan. The box is kind of cool and it’s shaped and opens like an Ammo can. You get a small slayer tapestry, a mock Slayer concert pass, 4 cd’s of music and a DVD with some old school live slayer and other rare footage.
Box sets these days as I mentioned with the Megadeth Warchest, are not like the box sets of old. They are more or less compilations of some of the bands greatest hits, live tracks and rarities. For the price the Slayer …read more

All that remains This Darkened Heart is the second release for the Massachusetts band on Prosthetic Records. With Behind Silence And Solitude three years under their belt they had established their name and sound. In 2003 it was time to mold that sound into a better barrage of metal mastery.
A line up change went into effect with the exit of Chris Bartlett (Guitars) and Dan Egan (Bass), and Producer Adam Dutkiewecz (Killswitch Engage) coming into the picture. Matt Deis came onto Bass and paino and this would be his only studio recording with the band. Unfortunately this would …read more

Slayer’s Undisputed Attitude came out a couple of years after Divine Intervention, an album that I still to this day don’t care for. Released on American Recordings in 1996 Undisputed Attitude wasn’t a cover album that you would expect to hear, especially from Slayer. You know Slayer always does awesome cover songs, it doesn’t matter what the song it. They could take Billy Ray Cyrus’s Achy Breacky Heart and Make it cool.

I’m gonna mix it up a bit here tonight with the Old School Review. I’m going to review three cd’s in my collection instead of the usual one. I rarely do a bad review so I thought I would throw one in there this time. Lets get this ball rollin’!