By Avinash Mittur It’s been thirty years since Iron Maiden walloped the world with their fourth studio record, Piece of Mind. With the album that came before, The Number of the Beast, the band had to prove to the world that they could still record great material with their new singer, one Mr. Bruce Dickinson. …
Continue reading “Retrospective: Three Decades of Iron Maiden’s ‘Piece of Mind’”
By Andrew Bansal 35 years ago, classic hard rock luminaries Rainbow released their third studio album ‘Long Live Rock ‘N’ Roll’, in what would turn out to be the late great Ronnie James Dio. Despite the short lived tenure of Dio as the frontman of this band, the partnership of Ritchie Blackmore on guitar and …
Continue reading “Retrospective: 35th Anniversary Of Rainbow’s ‘Long Live Rock ‘N’ Roll’”
By Andrew Bansal Exactly 25 years ago, British heavy metal legends Iron Maiden unleashed their 7th studio album, ‘Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son’. That was during the period popularly known as Iron Maiden’s ‘golden years’. They were releasing albums for fun back then. They put out six albums from 1980 to 1986. ‘Somewhere In …
Continue reading “Retrospective: 25 Years Of Iron Maiden’s ‘Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son’”
By Andrew Bansal It’s been exactly 40 years since British rock legends Led Zeppelin released their fifth studio album ‘Houses Of The Holy’, on March 28th 1973. Forty years! It’s hard to even imagine such a long time period, specially for those who weren’t even born yet at the time. It’s even harder to imagine …
Continue reading “Retrospective: Led Zeppelin’s ‘Houses Of The Holy’ Turns 40”
By Avinash Mittur American power metal often has a vastly different connotation than its European counterpart. The folks on the other side of the Atlantic were happy to show off huge, anthemic choruses with fantasy based imagery to along with it, while the guys in the states featured a tougher, rougher image and wrote songs …
Continue reading “Retrospective: Riot’s Thundersteel Twenty Five Years Strong”
By Avinash Mittur When one thinks of epic concept records within the heavy metal genre, a few albums immediately come to mind. Operation: Mindcrime, Seventh Son of a Seventh Son and Nightfall in Middle-Earth are but a couple of the amazing records that have not only successfully told an entertaining story, but also delivered an …
Continue reading “Retrospective: Ten Years Of Slough Feg’s Traveller”