Okay, still here? For those who don't know I have been a metalhead since I was little. I was about 8 or 9 yrs old when I bought my first real album which was AC/DC's For Those About To Rock... We Salute You! Still an awesome classic album which sadly I no longer have. I quickly discovered Ozzy, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath and, my first music love, Iron Maiden. I was a Maiden nut until I was about 15 and listened to Metallica's Master of Puppets for the first time. That album changed my musical taste forever. My teen years can be summed up pretty simply by saying if it wasn't thrash I wasn't interested. Over the years I garnered a pretty decent music collection for someone of modest means. Then when I was about 30 (give or take I don't remember exactly) I picked up Meshuggah's amazing album Nothing and my taste changed again. I had never been much of a death metal or "extreme" metal fan but that album opened that world up to me like no other. My music collection continued to grow and while I'm a metalhead I have a lot of different music in my collection from old blues like Skip James, Leadbelly and Howlin' Wolf to Irish Punk like Flogging Molly and The Tossers to odd/eclectic bands like Gogol Bordello or Oysterhead to even some country from the likes of Johnny Cash and Hank Williams III. So yeah I'm a music lover not simply a metalhead.
Things really changed a few years ago when I ran the website Thy Demons Be Scribblin with my friend Cult. We started doing album reviews for fun though it soon morphed into something more akin to a job. In doing so we got noticed by some different music promoters and indie labels who began sending us music to review. There was a point a couple years ago when I was being sent anywhere from 50-100 albums every week. Needless to say it was impossible to listen to all of it let alone review it. However, the good thing is I have a collection of somewhere between three or four thousand albums which I purge every so often to shed albums I never listen to. The reason that is a good thing is that without music I probably wouldn't have begun writing and without it I'd find it difficult to continue as well.
Every story I write shares its title with the song that helped inspire it and I often steal band member names for characters though I recombine and sometimes adjust male names to female. I do this to pay homage to the music that has given me so much in my life, I literally wouldn't be here without it, and to add little "wink & nod" references for any fellow metalheads who may happen upon my stories. I don't make these references blatant because I want non-metalheads to enjoy my work while bringing a smile to the faces of anyone who does get it like being on the inside of an inside joke. Now I'll move on to the reason I started this today.
Released: January 25, 2019
Label: Century Media Records
Released: April 19, 2019
Label: Metal Blade Records
Released: April 19, 2019
Label: Metal Blade Records
Released: May 3, 2019
Label: The Church Within Records
Released: March 8, 2019
Label: Season of Mist
Released: February 1, 2019
Label: Silver Lining Music
Released: May 10, 2019
Label: 20 Buck Spin
Released: February 22, 2019
Label: Agonia Records
Released: March 29, 2019
Label: Metal Blade Records
here is the best album of the year so far!
Released: April 26, 2019
Label: E-One Music (Entertainment One)