“We are Forerunners. Guardians of all that exists. The roots of the Galaxy have grown deep under our careful tending. Where there is life, the wisdom of our countless generations has saturated the soil. Our strength is a luminous sun, towards which all intelligence blossoms… And the impervious shelter, beneath which it has prospered.”

Their first and last great album

It is always good to get reacquainted from time to time with those lost classic albums that you haven’t listened to properly in like years- particularly when they involve some of your favourite singers and musicians collaborating on “side projects”...

Damn you, Vox

As you know, I am an avid reader of Vox Day- he is, after all, the Supreme Dark Overlord of our delightful little Evil Legion of Evil, and the supreme commander of the Vile Faceless Minions. So when he posts something, I read it. You don’t have to agree with...

Songs of glory

Nothing serious to see here- other than some serious headbanging: (That song is catchier than herpes. I’m surprised the CDC hasn’t jumped on the banned-wagon for it yet.) And let’s not forget the girls- I am nothing if not fair-minded,...

“The Last Stand”

SABATON’s latest album is finally out, and it is indeed very damn good. I find it difficult to choose the “best” track off the whole thing, but if I were pressed, I would probably pick the title track: It’s not often that you hear a metal band-...

The operator’s anthem

Normally, I absolutely LOATHE rap. I do not consider hip-hop to be “music”- in my arrogant opinion, for something to be considered musical, it must actually be bearable to the human ear. Hip-hop and rap and most forms of similar music cause me to...

Trigger warning

In that I’m warning you that I’m about to play a really great death metal song by IN FLAMES. See what I did there? Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)...

Grand Magus

If you are a fan of good old-fashioned hard rock and heavy metal with an epic feel to it- I’m talking the likes of IRON MAIDEN, JUDAS PRIEST, SAXON, DIO, and MANOWAR- then I have just the band for you: GRAND MAGUS first came to my attention via probably my...

I could get used to it

I am not normally a fan of dance music. I am even less so a fan of the abomination that we know today as “dubstep”, which I find extremely repetitive and boring and mind-numbing- and made even worse by the fact that many of the people who make it...

Damn but that is a good album

New song off the latest VOLBEAT album- when these guys get things going, they really know how to string together a great tune: VOLBEAT, of course, are known for this sort of thing- great catchy well-crafted songs with powerful, uplifting lyrics. See also: And, of...

The Lost Battalion

New SABATON album on its way. Need I say more? Judging by their last two albums, this one is going to SLAY. This one has kind of the same sort of groove to it that “Hearts of Iron” did from Heroes, and that is one of my favourite songs by this awesome...