Category: Lists


Gaahl’s 5 Worst Heavy Metal Fashion Criminals

Satan! Oh, wait, no. Fashion! Yes, that’s right. Today I, black metal renaissance man, shall be talking you through some of heavy metal fashion disasters. My partner & I were sat in front of the TV last night watching my new Stryper DVD when I got thinking, metal is a rather unfashionable genre. I know not everyone can be quite as fabulous as myself but here are my big 5 no-nos.

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The Top 8 Concept Albums – Part 2

The Top 8 Concept Albums – Part 2

The Top 8 Concept Albums – Part 2

Welcome to Part 2 of the definitive(ish) list of the greatest heavy metal concept albums. This is the business end, it’s the big one. Here we get into the real heavy hitters of conceptual conceptualising; the beard-stroking, lute-playing minstrels of our time.

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The Top 8 Concept Albums – Part 1

The Top 8 Concept Albums – Part 1

The Top 8 Concept Albums – Part 1

Hello. Here is my take on the 8 greatest concept albums of all time, or at least the ones I have A) Heard and B) Remembered for the purpose of writing this piece. WASP’s Crimson Idol, Iced Earth’s Framing Armageddon double album and others were unlucky to miss out on merit, I totally forgot about Orphaned Land until writing this little intro, had massive reservations about Priest’s Nostradamus, wasn’t sure if Painkiller was really a concept album and generally made a right bollocks of the whole thing. With your expectations now suitably dampened, I present numbers 8-5 on this countdown to conceptual glory…

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Top 5 Nautical Metal Albums

After the absolutely brilliant debut, Remission, Mastodon invested in a book & dropped this whale-shaped bomb on the heavy metal scene. It’s probably a good thing that they picked Herman Melville’s epic Moby Dick. Whilst we are all still waiting for that elusive prog metal concept album based on Dr Seuss One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Melville’s imagery allows the lumbering doom & sludge structures developed on their previous releases to take on a whole new level of mental.

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Ewen’s Top 10 of 2009

If there is any justice in the world, Cormorant are set to be the biggest thing out of the Bay Area since 1983. Metazoa is a blinding mix of melodic death metal, hard rock, black metal & about 100 other genres. I really can’t recommend this album highly enough.

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Strachs’ Top 10 of 2009

This had to be the number one. It’s just very important to have Megadeth existing and putting out some proper music again. I still think that they can improve on this, but for the time being, enjoy Mustaine sneering and thoroughly thrashing his tits off once more.

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