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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...
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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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Mar 9, 20203 min read
LORD OF LIGHT "Morningstar"
Band: LORD OF LIGHT Title: Morningstar Label: No Remorse Country: Sweden Release date: March 13, 2020 (self-released digitally on...
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Mar 8, 20202 min read
DEXTER WARD III
Band: DEXTER WARD Title: III Label: No Remorse Country: Greece (Athens)/Italy (Venice) Release date: March 13, 2020 Format reviewed:...
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Feb 23, 20203 min read
AMBUSH "Infidel"
Band: AMBUSH Title: Infidel Label: High Roller Records Country: Sweden Release date: March 13, 2020 Format reviewed: (high-rate) mp3...
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Feb 21, 20202 min read
STALLION "Slaves Of Time"
Band: STALLION Title: Slaves Of Time Label: High Roller Records Country: Germany Release date: February 28, 2020 Format reviewed:...
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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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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...
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Jan 26, 20208 min read
A Conversation with HELLRIPPER
This is the full transcript of JayKeeley's January 25th 2020 "live" Twitter conversation with James McBain, the mastermind behind...
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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...
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Jan 5, 202016 min read
A Conversation with NECROPANTHER
You heard the album (if you didn't - must correct immediately), you read the reviews, including the one, here on DENIM & LEATHER. Now is...
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Jan 3, 20204 min read
DEAD KOSMONAUT "Gravitas"
Band: DEAD KOSMONAUT Title: Gravitas Label: High Roller Records Country: Sweden Release date: January 31, 2020 Format reviewed:...
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Jan 1, 20201 min read
Seattle Atmospheric Metallers IZTHMI to Release Debut Album "The Arrow of Our Ways" February 14
Seattle (WA) - Atmospheric Metal band Izthmi will release full-length debut album The Arrows of Our Ways February 14 on Within The Mind...
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Jan 1, 20202 min read
U.S. Heavy Metal Warriors IRONFLAME to Release "Blood Red Victory" on February 7
U.S. Heavy Metal Warriors IRONFLAME will release their third full-length album, Blood Red Victory, February 7th 2020, on Divebomb Records...
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