Top 10 Songs by Ronnie James Dio
April 11, 2025
Ronnie James Dio was obsessed with role-playing game-type fantasy, work-obsessed, and capable of outsinging a good majority of rock vocalists. He made over-the-top rock records. Dio, his solo vehicle, is one of the greatest heavy metal groups of all time.
It’s…
Top 10 Songs by Uriah Heep: Very Heavy, Plenty of Rumble
March 28, 2025
Uriah Heep was one of the many 1970s hard-rock bands that entertained dreams of becoming “The New Led Zeppelin” while playing their brand of heavy guitar music on stages across the world. But Uriah Heep was one of the few who made those dreams a reality. These…
Belted Sweater and San Francisco al Sur Reviewed
March 12, 2025
Belted Sweater – Wilt
Modern heavy music is, for the most part, deplorable. Why you can’t begrudge anyone for making a living, and you have to give it up to the people who manage to play festival crowds while promoting heavy music, it’s all rather…
Motörhead and its leader, Lemmy Kilmister, were created for just one purpose – to celebrate all that was good, nasty and vital about rock n’ roll. Some bands don’t make the same album twice. Motorhead, arguably, never made more than one kind of…
Hipflask Virgins x Ruben Seabright – Hubris (conquest)
They say that a true inventor is the kind of person who can just stroll across a crowded street and notice a thousand things that are missing and then go to his shed, build them and sell them to people. Yes, the…
“Don’t Cry” made Guns n’ Roses an arena rock band on par with Aerosmith and The Rolling Stones. Having a power ballad do this for a rock band was not a novel strategy. But “Don’t Cry” was, actually, one of the first songs by the band…
Steve Creep and the Wildcards and Wilson Music Reviewed
October 10, 2024
Steve Creep and the Wildcards – Bottles and Cans
People who keep rock music alive usually do it at great expense to themselves and potentially cause physical harm. It’s not like it used to be. The music and rocker fashion grew slowly in magnitude and, by the…
Goro and INTERCONTINEN7AL Reviewed
September 21, 2024
Goro – Emperor Prophet
Most of the bands that try to do too much end up doing much at all. The idea of crafting songs that go from one musical style to another sounds appealing. But in reality, other than The Beatles and Ween, it’s not something that too many…
Top 11 Rainbow Songs: When Ritchie Blackmore Finally Got His Way
September 21, 2024
Rainbow was the brainchild of guitar magus Ritchie Blackmore and unapologetically an attempt to gatecrash the charts. With the side project active for more than two decades, Rainbow did manage to secure hits and, what’s more, to incorporate trends that varied wildly…