Historic Metal Albums: Fear Factory – Demanufacture* The machine is now alive. Alternating clean and harsh vocals are commonplace in Heavy Metal today, but Fear

Let me take you back to a bygone era. . . .  True story from my long-haired teenage mallrat days, circa 1991: I tried on

By Rich Catino   Scorpions Are In The Metal Hall, So What About Accept? I previously wrote three other articles about the contributions from Germany

    “I’m not the next Madonna, I’m the next Iron Maiden” – Lady Gaga* As much as mainstream radio tweekers love to malign Heavy Metal,

More 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

  It’s time to talk  some Metal trash. Here are the rules of the game:  Single out an absolute masterpiece of an album. A timeless

By: Rich Catino As part of my Metal Hall Legacy article series, part one and two covered important German Traditional and Power Metal bands who

What is the greatest riff of all time? “Back in Black?” “For Whom the Bell Tolls?” “The Final Countdown?” “Raining Blood?” “Popcorn” by Hot Butter?

  One of the great appeals of the electric guitar is that, in the right hands, each note can have pitch, waver, and modulation –

Press rewind. Let’s go back to the age when cassettes dominated the world. Yes, those beloved plastic cartridges with their twin internal spools, their microfiche-sized