Ted Nugent – Great White Buffalo: Double Live Gonzo! Version (Song Review)
“It happened a long time ago, baby” Ted had been yanking and cranking his Gibson Byrdland guitar so hard that by the fifth song on his 1978 live album Double Live Gonzo!, it had gone out of tune. But a...
View ArticleGWAR – Maggots (Song Review)
“How to describe such vileness on the page?” I’m all for humour and wit in music but actual comedy bands or records have limited appeal for me. They might make me chuckle but I’m not going to need many...
View ArticleAlice Cooper – School’s Out (Song Review)
“We can’t even think of a word that rhymes” I adore Alice Cooper’s School’s Out album and listen to it a lot. But the majority of the time I skip its opening title track. It’s such an overplayed song...
View ArticleDeep Purple – Mandrake Root (Song Review)
“It’s some thunder in my brain” Deep Purple’s 1968 debut Shades Of Deep Purple has only a hint of the explosive contribution that Purple would make to metal’s birth a couple of years later but it can...
View ArticleHMO Diary: 27th October 2024
I finally got my hands on the new Blood Incantation album Absolute Elsewhere yesterday. I had ordered the deluxe box set and the supplier I used kept putting the shipping date back so had to cancel and...
View ArticleBlasphemy – Fallen Angel Of Doom…. (Album Review)
Blasphemy – Fallen Angel Of Doom…. (Wild Rags – 1990) Fallen Angel Of Doom…. is the seminal 1990 debut album from a notorious band whose beer you most definitely do not want to spill: Canada’s...
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