Judas Priest keep on kicking. It has been a number of years since KK left the band, and then Glenn Tipton wasn't able to tour in recent years due to Parkinsons, so it was kind of a surprise when we heard that the band was working on a new album. I'm not sure how much longer they will be able to hold things together, but like AC/DC, I'll be there until the very end. The last Priest record, Firepower in 2018, was some solid heavy metal, and I didn't expect any less from Invincible Shield. You know exactly what you are going to get with a modern Priest record. There are no surprises... the band ..read more

I never really paid much attention to Bad Brains beyond Rock For Light. Sure, I'd listened to I Against I, and I appreciated it enough to spin it once a year, but it wasn't an album that I listened to that closely or spent much time with. A few years ago, however, I Against I started to catch my ear more and more... then last year, I really became hooked on the title track, and I listened the fuck out of that song. Of course that obsession eventually bled over to the full album, and suddenly I found myself really wanting to chase down a copy. When Ralf started posting colored vinyl versions of ..read more

There have only a few new releases so far this year that have really surprised me and had me excited. There have been plenty of discoveries for me this year that have given me a charge, and I've enjoyed listening to some new records that have come out, but for those that I've really obsessed over... they have been few and far between. One of those that has really caught my attention though, has been the new Whores album. I've seen the Whores name pop up a few times as a recommendation on Spotify, and while I wouldn't say that the band name turned me off, let's just say that it didn't exactly ..read more

My friend Jeff gave me this record as a Christmas gift last year. He has recently acquired a bunch of old classic hardcore and punk records to sell for a friend, and since I'll be slowly buying some from him in the near future, I figured that I'd better get this album up on the blog before I get to the more interesting shit. While I do really love the early Twisted Sister records, I probably wouldn't have bothered to chase down this live set at Donington from '83. This live recording has been available for years as a bootleg, but it seems to have received an official release back in 2022. I'm ..read more

I've posted some questionable things on the blog before... most notable was my brief obsession with Japanese singles for those early 80's MTV hits. Those records, however, were very much a comfort for me during a period where America's political climate had me angry and depressed a lot of the time, so I felt justified posting them here. But with this latest record that I picked up, I wasn't so sure if I should include it on a blog that mostly focuses on hardcore and metal. When I saw the post that Marcus did for Olivia Rodrigo a couple of months back, it cleared my head of this doubt. Even tho ..read more

I've been terrible at keeping up with new music this year. It is September and I think that I've only heard three new hardcore records (Planet on a Chain, One Step Closer and the Wreckage 7 inch that I can't find the colored vinyl for). I really need someone to help put shit on my radar because I'm dropping the ball big time this year. Thankfully, Marcus came through and dropped me a note, asking if I'd checked the Spaced record that Rev released. I'd seen some fellow bloggers post about Spaced... Marcus had a great post with all of the versions of the new record, and Ralf mentioned compariso ..read more

A couple of months ago, my friend Sarah had messaged me, asking if I could find her a limited record that she was interesting in buying. Easy enough task for someone like me that is always on the hunt for records, and within minutes I was sending her a discogs link for where she could buy it. I thought the price was reasonable, but for someone that doesn't collect records, the $50 price tag may have seemed a bit high. She ended up buying the record and then I got to talking about some expensive records that I had sitting in my Discogs cart that I've been hesitant to pull the trigger on... and ..read more

Seems that whenever I post a live bootleg record here, it makes me want to rush out and buy another one of them. After posting about the Megadeth boot earlier this year, it didn't take me long to head over to the Hells Headbangers store and see what I could pick up next. Iron Maiden live boots are an instant buy for me. I own 10 or 11 Maiden bootlegs, and will not hesitate to buy a new one if the cover catches my eye. I just can't say no to a good looking Eddie cover... especially since the bootleg fan art tends to look better than what Maiden puts on their studio covers. Back in 2005, I was ..read more

New metal albums haven't been holding my interest too much this year. The few that I've checked out, have been good, but I've just not wanted to spend any time with them. So when I saw the new record from The Obsessed at one of the local record stores, I'm not sure why I felt the need to buy it. I've never been a huge fan of The Obsessed. Nothing against them, I just haven't taken the time to really sit with any of their older records (even though my friend, Jeff, is always after me to listen to The Church Within). I did, however, enjoy their last album from 2017, Sacred, and actually spent t ..read more

While I was in a 90's hardcore mood (always) and picking up the Burst Of Silence 7 inch, I decided to take a look at the sellers list to see if they had any other cool things from that time period that I needed to pick up. One Step Ahead might have sounded identical to Verbal Assault... in fact I might have picked up this 7 inch because No Answers zine reviewed the band's first record, saying that "some of the songs were blatant Verbal Assault rip offs." Sounds good to me... and probably why I enjoyed the band Remission so much as well. I know what I like, and if the band does it well, I'm no ..read more