Metal playlists from the underground
Today, Black Sabbath announced a reunion album and tour with the four original band members: Ozzy Osbourne on vocals, Tony Iommi on guitar, Geezer Butler on bass, and Bill Ward on drums. According to RollingStone.com, there will be a 2012 world tour and brand new album produced by Rick Rubin, the same producer that saved Metallica […]
There is no doubt that Rick Rubin is one of the greatest music producers of all-time in genres ranging from thrash metal to rap, which is why news of the release of Rick Rubin: In The Studio by Jake Brown won my immediate attention. However, upon opening my paperback copy, the enthusiasm dwindled to immediate […]
-Ozzy Osbourne reunites with Black Sabbath for first studio album since 1978. -In all honesty, it took a several full-album plays for “13” before warming up to it. -The new songs initially sounded forced, like the band tried too hard to reproduce their early sound without pushing the envelope any further than they have in […]
Beastie Boys rapper and founding member Adam Yauch (MCA) died after battling cancer of the parotid gland (salivary gland) for several years. He was 47. The Beastie Boys recorded the hit “No Sleep till Brooklyn” in 1986 and featured a guitar solo from Slayer’s Kerry King. In the music video for “(You Gotta) Fight For […]
Kiss offers a heavy rocking release, the first since 1998’s mediocre Psycho Circus, titled Sonic Boom. Without Ace Frehley and Peter Criss in Kiss, it is very difficult to love and enjoy the band like the early days. But putting that prejudice aside, Sonic Boom undeniably contains powerful rock tracks that only Paul Stanley and […]
Historically, Metallica is 7 for 16 at the Grammy Awards which works out to be a measly .438 winning percentage. The official Gears of Rock prediction is that Metallica will walk away from the 51st Grammy Awards with a more respectable .550 (11/20). Here is how it will work: “My Apocalypse” will win Best Metal […]
The greatest heavy metal band in the history of heavy metal is Black Sabbath and there is simply no disputing that. Sabbath are the godfathers of heavy metal and hail from Birmingham, England. They began their conquest of the universe in 1968 and have influenced every real rock n roll band that you hear today. […]
I cant believe it but Born Free is Kid Rock’s eighth studio album. Well, not that I’ve been keeping count. The stone cold pimp of the nation is back and has definitely matured as an artist. He seems like a different man is on this album. It’s a long way from the “I am the […]