HEAVY METAL Archives - Didactic Mind https://didacticmind.com/tag/heavy-metal Strategic Defence of the Mantle of Responsibility Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:13:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 182200397 Happy Caesar salad day https://didacticmind.com/2026/03/happy-caesar-salad-day.html https://didacticmind.com/2026/03/happy-caesar-salad-day.html#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:13:00 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=23260 LRFotS Bardelys the Magnificent once commented, a few years ago – I think – that March is a fun month, because you get all the silly holidays packed into the space of a few days. We start with Pi Day, then the Ides of March – aka “Caesar Stabbification Day” – and then St. Patrick’s […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2026/03/happy-caesar-salad-day.html/feed 1 23260 So this Swedish band walks into a coffee shop… https://didacticmind.com/2025/12/so-this-swedish-band-walks-into-a-coffee-shop.html https://didacticmind.com/2025/12/so-this-swedish-band-walks-into-a-coffee-shop.html#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2025 10:24:21 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=22982 If you have ever listened to SABATON – and pretty much EVERY LRFotS has encountered AT LEAST one poast here that incorporates one or more of their most memorable choons – then you know how hilariously awesome they are. They also have a great sense of humour, and are not above poking fun at themselves. […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2025/12/so-this-swedish-band-walks-into-a-coffee-shop.html/feed 1 22982 Happy HELLOWEEN 2025 https://didacticmind.com/2025/10/happy-helloween-2025.html https://didacticmind.com/2025/10/happy-helloween-2025.html#respond Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:58:01 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=22815 Seeing as it is the very last day of October, we all know what that means: a bunch of people dressed up like Martin Luther, nailing a list of clear refutations of High Church doctrine to any and every door that they can find. Oh, wait, you didn’t know it was Reformation Day today? Yep, […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2025/10/happy-helloween-2025.html/feed 0 22815 When a comedian takes up music https://didacticmind.com/2025/09/when-a-comedian-takes-up-music.html https://didacticmind.com/2025/09/when-a-comedian-takes-up-music.html#respond Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:30:19 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=22654 Most musicians that you watch playing on stage, generally have a lot of fun doing their thing. Perhaps the major exception was the late, great, dearly missed Neil Peart – aka “the guy who taught God how to play the drums”. We RUSH fans called him “the Professor on the drums” for a reason, because, […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2025/09/when-a-comedian-takes-up-music.html/feed 0 22654 When REKTallica had a real drummer https://didacticmind.com/2025/01/when-rektallica-had-a-real-drummer.html https://didacticmind.com/2025/01/when-rektallica-had-a-real-drummer.html#comments Wed, 08 Jan 2025 12:29:38 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=21544 For years, I have been VERY harsh about one Larzzzz Ulrich, founder, drummer, and leader of Metallica – a band that I consider to be hugely overhyped and overrated. That being said, there was a time, back in my teens, when I did listen quite a bit to their magnum opus, Master of Puppets. And […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2025/01/when-rektallica-had-a-real-drummer.html/feed 3 21544 Rhythms of the Beast https://didacticmind.com/2024/12/rhythms-of-the-beast.html https://didacticmind.com/2024/12/rhythms-of-the-beast.html#comments Sun, 08 Dec 2024 11:53:16 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=21365 It has happened at last. Nicko McBrain, the legendary drummer for the even more legendary IRON MAIDEN – THE GREATEST BAND OF ALL TIME, there is no argument whatsoever on this subject as far as I am concerned – has announced his retirement from touring: Nicko wrote: “After much consideration, it is with both sorrow and […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2024/12/rhythms-of-the-beast.html/feed 4 21365 Happy HELLOWEEN 2024 https://didacticmind.com/2024/10/happy-helloween-2024.html https://didacticmind.com/2024/10/happy-helloween-2024.html#comments Thu, 31 Oct 2024 23:19:13 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=21150 Seeing as it is October 31st, and it is “that” time of the year again, let us go a bit against the grain and crank up the volume ALL THE WAY TO 11, with everyone’s favourite GRANDDADDIES of power metal: The funny thing is, though, that HELLOWEEN, despite their name, have penned plenty of great […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2024/10/happy-helloween-2024.html/feed 7 21150 Well that will certainly wake them up! https://didacticmind.com/2024/08/well-that-will-certainly-wake-them-up.html https://didacticmind.com/2024/08/well-that-will-certainly-wake-them-up.html#comments Sat, 03 Aug 2024 11:01:05 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=20829 The latest POWERWOLF album dropped at the end of last week, and of course, I jumped on it pretty much immediately. Having listened to it pretty much continuously for the past week or so, I have to say, it is – to use the highly technical term – SUPER AMAZEBALLS AWESOMESAUCE. It might even be […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2024/08/well-that-will-certainly-wake-them-up.html/feed 1 20829 One for the overly polite effete northerners https://didacticmind.com/2024/07/one-for-the-overly-polite-effete-northerners.html https://didacticmind.com/2024/07/one-for-the-overly-polite-effete-northerners.html#comments Sun, 28 Jul 2024 22:27:40 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=20801 Canadians do not get much love around here, and with pretty good reason. When I lived in the FUSA, all the Americans I knew, essentially looked at Canuckistanis as the effete, probably gay, far too polite, French-speaking, very confused cousins of the Free and the Brave. This, after all, is how Ameribros see themselves: Don’t […]

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]]> https://didacticmind.com/2024/07/one-for-the-overly-polite-effete-northerners.html/feed 2 20801 The Didact’s Best Albums of 2023 https://didacticmind.com/2023/12/the-didacts-best-albums-of-2023.html https://didacticmind.com/2023/12/the-didacts-best-albums-of-2023.html#comments Mon, 01 Jan 2024 03:00:00 +0000 https://didacticmind.com/?p=19540 Surprisingly, this year I did not listen to much by way of really new heavy metal – nor did I listen to all that many metal albums. But the ones I DID listen to, were in many cases really damn good. Here are the top albums I heard in 2023. 1. VISION DENIED – Age […]

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