* Can we turn down the house lights? All right, raise up your phones. . . Gen X and older, you can raise your lighters. It’s time to bring it down a notch and play some Power Ballads. They became requisites for artists of all Metal sub-genres for awhile, from Glam/Hair/Pop to NWOBHM, traditional, and …
The annual Metal Hall of Fame gala has become the Place To Be for Metal fans and VIPs alike. The 2023 ceremony owned the night, burned brightly on its own with no NAMM or any other event going on at the same time. The Canyon Club in Agoura Hills, CA was filled to capacity, with …
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1/24/2023 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Metal Hall of Fame teams up with Deko Entertainment to release All Stars CD/DVD which includes appearances by Tim “Ripper” Owens (ex-Judas Priest), Tony MacAlpine, Bob Daisley (Ozzy Osbourne), Derek Sherinian (ex-Dream Theater), Chris Impellitteri, Bruce Kulick (ex-KISS), Rudy Sarzo (Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne), Chris Poland (ex-Megadeth), Geoff Tate (ex-Queensryche), …
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Europe, Candlemass, Hammerfall, Yngwie Malmsteen By Rich Catino Yup, just like the Hammerfall song ‘(We Make) Sweden Rock’, Sweden has been rocking since the 80s with great bands. A couple big names that obviously come to mind – Europe, Yngwie Malmsteen, Candlemass. But the Sweden branch of the Heavy Metal tree has many smaller branches. …
Neglected, disrespected, shunned, mocked, overlooked, belittled scoffed at; Heavy Metal acts have always been derided by mainstream as second class. In spite of the genius creatives in our ranks, their conventional wisdom sees us as unintelligent, uncouth, unsophisticated, maladjusted, scary. . . Paradoxically, we in the Metal world simultaneously resent and embrace our classification as …
We’re off to the witch. Originally misheard as “We’re up to the witch,” ca. 1985, on my Emerson K3661A one-speaker boombox.* I had no inkling of the Satanic panic swirling around Dio’s 2nd solo masterpiece, “The Last in Line;” I was blissfully unaware of the pearl-clutching and hand-wringing over the demonic figure on his album …
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11-22-2022 TWISTED SISTER TO BE INDUCTED INTO METAL HALL OF FAME Clifton, N.J. (November 22, 2022) – ROCAVAKA – The Vaka Thats Rocks! is proud to present: The 6th Annual Metal Hall of Fame Charity Gala, where Rock Legends TWISTED SISTER will be Inducted into the 2023 Metal Hall of Fame. The event will …
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Let me take you back to a bygone era. . . . True story from my long-haired teenage mallrat days, circa 1991: I tried on a fedora-type hat and looked great (if I do say so myself), but let friends talk me out of the purchase. Their fatal shot for my fashion venture was: “Don’t …
By Rich Catino Scorpions Are In The Metal Hall, So What About Accept? I previously wrote three other articles about the contributions from Germany and all the great hard rock and heavy metal names the country has given us. All of them have yet to be inducted into the Metal Hall of Fame so …
And what of the future? What is to be? I was there at the first Metal Hall of Fame awards gala in 2017, when it was still called the “Hall of Heavy Metal History.” I stood with the other journalists and photographers across from the Last Supper-like long table, awestruck at the pantheon of …
