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Apr 6, 20212 min read
2021 D&L Q1 Top 10 Rock Albums
Rock is also being well represented so far this year. Still not quite at the same volume of releases as its more aggressive counterparts,...
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Apr 5, 20212 min read
2021 D&L Q1 Top 10 Metal Albums
... music in the time of pandemic. With each passing week of 2021 we are witnessing tidal wave after tidal wave of new releases in the...
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Dec 29, 20203 min read
2020 TOP 50 METAL ALBUMS
From Faithful Trad to Avant-garde Black - All Delivered in Spades! From the Hellfire inferno the Metal army has risen once again! Despite...
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Dec 27, 20203 min read
2020 TOP 50 ROCK ALBUMS
Hard Rock, Prog Rock, AOR & Glam Metal Thirty years ago the styles and sub-genres clearly exemplified by the following fifty titles were...
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Dec 25, 20201 min read
2020 TOP 10 EP/MLP
Often offering an alternate point-of-view, exploring new musical nuances, cover songs, different mixes, are all elements that make for...
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Dec 23, 20202 min read
2020 TOP 10 RETRO ROCK ALBUMS
Digital Age Rock 'N Roll Heavily Rooted In The Past! Due to this year's tidal wave of quality releases, I've decided to expend not only...
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Dec 20, 20202 min read
2020 TOP 10 BLUES/ROCK ALBUMS
Rocking Electric Blues & Blues/Rock Kicking off 2020 year's end festivities with a top ten of the most exciting electric blues and...
Emil
May 2, 20203 min read
Straight Outta Catacombs
EMIL'S DEEP UNDERGROUND RECOS (part X) Thrash Metal ... and beyond ... Edition! Thrash metal without a message is just bogus. Whereas...
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Feb 9, 20204 min read
50 YEARS OF METAL
Part V: Long Live Rock 'n' Roll ... the 2010s Our journey through 50 years of metal ends (for now) on a high note. Over the course of the...
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Emil
Jan 31, 20204 min read
50 YEARS OF METAL
Part IV: A World Ablaze ... the 2000s Starting around the mid 1990s, alongside grunge, metal maintained a quasi-mainstream edge via...
Emil
Jan 24, 20204 min read
50 YEARS OF METAL
Part III: Death ... The Only Solution ... the 1990s This time I’ll spare you my silly astronomical metaphors … Yes. The 1990s were...
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Jan 17, 20204 min read
50 YEARS OF METAL
Part II: Metal For The Masses ... the 1980s Following such respectable size big-bang, an equally sizable expansion was unavoidable … and...
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Jan 12, 20203 min read
50 YEARS OF METAL
Part I: From The Start ... the 1970s February 13th 2020 marks the fifty year anniversary of Black Sabbath's self-titled debut. Metal was...
Emil
Dec 30, 20191 min read
2019 HONORABLE MENTIONS
Twenty honorable mentions (in no particular order): MEMORIAM Requiem for Mankind (6/21/2019) Death Metal UK Spotify link IMPRECATION...
Emil
Dec 29, 20193 min read
2019 TOP 30 METAL ALBUMS
ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2019 continued the exponential climb on the upward trajectory of the most recent years, in the ever expending realm of...
Emil
Dec 28, 20192 min read
2019 TOP 10 HARD ROCK ALBUMS
Hard'N'Heavy - AOR - Glam Metal Far too long hard rock has been eclipsed by the more extreme offerings of the metal realm. For the past...
Emil
Dec 27, 20191 min read
2019 TOP 10 EPs
Ten best EPs of 2019. Mixed bag. 10. HOUND THE WOLVES & GLASGHOTE (split) Released on August 2, 2019 D&L Review Spotify link 9. BERETTA...
Emil
Dec 26, 20191 min read
2019 TOP 5 RETRO ROCK ALBUMS
There are many elements that excite me when it comes to quality music. One of them is the velvety overdriven sound of an electric guitar...
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Dec 26, 20191 min read
2019 TOP 5 LIVE ALBUMS
Live albums. They represent events in music history. Covering a certain period, a lineup, a milestone or a reunion, live albums are...
Emil
Dec 9, 20193 min read
MMX-MMXIX Decade Of Malevolence
With literally days left, the current decade (2010-2019) will eclipse to the new dawn of this millennium's third decade. On December 31st...
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