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FESTIVALS
Thanks to the wonder of modern TV’s talking heads, and too much distilled history, there are some people that think that Woodstock was the first music festival. When it’s pointed out that there was the...
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HEAVY METAL THUNDER
Heavy Metal was born in 1839. It’s a chemistry term describing a loosely connected set of metals defined as frequently being toxic to humans – these include lead, iron, mercury and lithium. Over a...
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Arise Sir Ozzy?
Ozzy Osbourne has responded to a fan's campaign to make him a knight by telling Time Out magazine that he "can't imagine anything better" than becoming Sir Ozzy. Devotee Helen Maidiotis has created...
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Glastonbury, Isle of Wight, Hyde Park…Plumpton?
In the annals of rock, there are certain locations synonymous with historic, even iconic, festivals, especially around the late 1960s and early ‘70s. Glastonbury, Isle of Wight, Hyde Park…Plumpton? It...
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Ozzy: One More Sabbath Album and Tour
Ozzy Osbourne has told Metal Hammer magazine that there will be one final Black Sabbath album and tour. Osbourne expects sessions for it to begin next year, he hopes with Rick Rubin again producing. In...
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The Carpenters’ British Breakthrough
Richard and Karen Carpenter had a spectacular 1970. It started slowly, with their interpretation of the Beatles’ ‘Ticket To Ride’ stalling at No. 54 in the US, but by the summer, they were ruling the...
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Dave Grohl’s Birthday Bash…With A Few Close Personal Superstars
In advance of Dave Grohl’s 46th birthday on Wednesday (14), Foo Fighters hosted a star-studded tribute to their frontman and former Nirvana drummer on Saturday night at the Forum in Los Angeles. The...
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Even More Grand, Even More Funky
After making the top 30 of the American album chart with their 1969 debut LP ‘On Time,’ 45 years ago Grand Funk Railroad started to prove that it was no fluke. The album simply titled ‘Grand Funk’...
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The Cadillac Three – Heavy But Southern
“The other night a fan came up to us after our gig and said, ‘You guys are like Sabbath on cornbread!’” This is what Jaren Johnston, the singer and guitarist with Cadillac Three told us on Tuesday just...
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Loud ‘Lullabies’ From QOTSA
Some reviewers compared it to early Black Sabbath, another called it “the first legitimate ‘album of the year’ candidate for 2005." A decade ago today, American rockers Queens Of The Stone Age unveiled...
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reDiscover ‘Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!’
Romanian-born musician/producer Michael Cretu is anything but a household name. Yet MCMXC a.D, the 1990 debut of his ever morphing and suitably monikered studio project Enigma, reached the Top 10 in 10...
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Lemmy Kilmister RIP
The legendary Motörhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister passed away yesterday (28 December), after a short battle with an aggressive form of cancer. He had marked his 70th birthday only on Christmas Eve, and...
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LOUD FOR LIFE: THE HEADBANGING STORY OF HEAVY METAL
Of all the genres of music, “Heavy Metal” is considered the black sheep of the family. The genre that quietly burns steady, strong and eternally bright, away from the glare of mainstream media. With...
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LOUD FOR LIFE PART 2: METAL INVASION – HOW THE WEST WAS WON
Though the early 80s had created an undeniably powerful legacy for heavy metal as a whole, the remainder of the decade cemented the genre’s sensational and controversial rise in popularity. Thanks to...
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Rick Wakeman In 20 Songs
His name is synonymous with excess: keyboards stacked higher than Stonehenge; capes that resemble the outer shell of an interplanetary spacecraft; and, of course, concept albums. On ice. However,...
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reDiscover ‘Everyone Is Everybody Else’
John Lees' modern-day line-up of Barclay James Harvest are doing anything but resting on the band's laurels. On 24 June, in a first for any version of BJH, they will headline the Acoustic Stage at...
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A New Label For Marshall Amps
World-famous amplifier company Marshall, whose name is synonymous with live rock, is to launch its own Marshall Records. UK trade magazine Music Week reports today (Monday) that Marshall Amplification...
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Death Of Clash & Blue Oyster Cult Producer Pearlman
Sandy Pearlman, the American record producer and industry all-rounder perhaps best known for his production of the Clash's second album Give 'Em Enough Rope, has died at the age of 72. He passed away...
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Dear Sir. . .
In 1970 Ozzy Osbourne wrote a letter from Lodge Road, Aston, Birmingham complaining that the weekly pop paper, Disc had confused Black Widow’s album Sacrifice with Black Sabbath’s debut album – which...
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Dwarfed By The Henge
Back in 1983 former member of Deep Purple Ian Gillan was taking a break from singing about smoke on the water to lend his vocal talents to Black Sabbath. Their former lead singer, and once again lead...
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