PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 12-5-2023 METALLICA’S BLACKENED® WHISKEY TO SPONSOR ANNUAL METAL HALL OF FAME GALA Clifton, NJ, (November 28, 2023) – BLACKENED®, the award winning whiskey from Metallica, will be a sponsor of the 2024 Annual Metal Hall of Fame Gala, January 24, 2024, at the Marriott Delta Garden Grove, Anaheim, CA. …
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There are so many good, and great bands keeping the music alive from the U.S. traditional and New Wave of British Heavy Metal from the 80s like Maiden, Priest, Sabbath, Dio, Accept, Scorpions, Saxon, Diamond Head, etc. Just look at all the names in this collage, and several I talked about a couple years ago …
Most bands suck. It’s a fact. Very few produce even one great studio album, let alone back-to-back masterpieces. Some of the greats have done as many as 5 in a row, but how many bands/artists have managed 6 or more consecutive classics? The Six Straight Society is the most elite of clubs, and – …
It’s the return of Metal trash-talk! Here are the rules of the game: Single out an absolute masterpiece of an album, a timeless release from a great band, full of brilliant songs and priceless treasures. We’re talking desert-island-disc material. Identify the bad song(s). That’s it. We don’t want crap songs from crap artists; we …
by Rich Catino Hopefully you have, or will, read the first part to this topic here at the Metal Hall titled Don’t Call It Hair Metal: Part 1 1982-85. My article title inspired by a new book of the same name by Canadian guitarist Sean Kelly, currently from the Lee Aaron band and Cony Hatch. …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 9-10-2023 CLIFTON, NJ, September 10, 2023 – The Metal Hall of Fame has announced an exciting, mobile memorabilia tour called “Metal Across America.” The tour will launch at the “Heavy Halloween,” event, September 30, 2023, 3:00PM, VFW Post 4374, 50 Waterworks Rd, Freehold, NJ 07728. The Metal Across America tour features the …
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AC/DC started the Metal 80s with tragedy and triumph. Tragedy in February of 1980, with the shocking loss of their lead singer, Bon Scott, at the far-too-young age of 33, and then triumph in July of the same year, with the release of their legendary “Back in Black” album. Almost directly after Bon Scott’s death, …
The older kids spoke with reverence for their recent hits: “Breaking the Law,” “Livin’ After Midnight,” “Hellion/Electric Eye,” “Heading Out to the Highway,” and especially “You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’.” But some of us had a different point of entry into the music of Judas Priest. My introduction was the third and final single for …
by Rich Catino Note: Thanks to fellow Metal Hall writer Jack Mangan for your input and suggestions, and guitarist Jack Frost (Seven Witches, Aldo Nova, ex Savatage) to remember those who were an influence. Don’t Call It Hair Metal is a new book by Canadian guitarist Sean Kelly currently from the Lee Aaron band and Cony …
The mid-1980s. Traditional Heavy Metal was firmly established at this point, still expanding in strength and reach, becoming well-defined and familiar to its core audience. This was the era when offshoots like Thrash Metal, Speed Metal, Death Metal, and Black Metal began pushing heavy music toward extremes. But there was another boundary-smashing sub-genre on …
