I guess if you’re going to pick an album to be better than an Iron Maiden album, you better pick one by Black Sabbath. Black Sabbath is one of the easiest roots to trace to heavy metal’s origins. Their music is dark, heavy and aggressive in varying degrees. The heavy blues-rock they developed would be used as the basis for countless imitators and ( Read more... )

Motorhead is the first to have a repeat on the list, though certainly not the last. And here I picked what many consider the ultimate Motorhead album, or at least the most recognizable. Like all Motorhead albums, it is consistently good because it does not disregard the formula that made Motorhead a band of such longevity: loud, fast and heavy. ( Read more... )

Motorhead may very well be my favorite heavy metal band of all time. Twice I have seen them in concert now and twice have I been massively impressed by their ability to bring their music to life. Each of their albums is a treat. Even on album’s I like less (Snake Bite Love and We Are Motorhead would probably be the two I would pick to fit this bill ( Read more... )