“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.”

Sometimes it is good to be evil

Especially when your theme music goes something like this: Speaking of awesome evil villain theme music- I do not think that we will ever find a finer example of this than The Imperial March. Remember when Darth Vader strode onto the screen in STAR WARS IV: A New...

Thank God, indeed

Doff your hats, gentlemen: And in a similar vein: It goes without saying that I am, quite obviously, not a country boy. Never was and probably never will be. I was born and brought up in cities all over the world. The big difference between me and most people...

Told you so

I once called Bruce “THE VOICE OF YAHWEH” Dickinson, Literally the Most Interesting Man in the World. I was, of course, correct, as this interview here shall now prove: If you can ignore the two prats from the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation wasting...

Didact’s Album List 2017

In descending order of listening (i.e. latest album listened to is first): KOBRA AND THE LOTUS – Prevail I (4.3/5) CRYONIC TEMPLE – Into the Glorious Battle (4.0/5) BROTHERS OF METAL – Prophecy of Ragnarok (3.6/5)...

The Didact’s Best Albums of 2017

Perhaps I was not paying as much attention to new music as I normally do (which is highly likely), but this year somehow did not seem to be quite as good for new stuff as last year was. Nonetheless, I listened to a number of excellent albums- and some real clunkers as...

Hot sticks

My buddy Carey sent me this clip a few hours ago of a lady named Hannah Ford rocking out on the skins, and I have to say, I was pretty impressed: Damn. She’s good. And that’s not all she can do, either: Normally I don’t like watching drum solos....

When SABATON meets RAMMSTEIN

Both more and less epic than you might expect, if that makes any sense: I’m a big fan of angry Germans who sound like they’re about to go all blitzkrieg on their enemies, but I tend to find RAMMSTEIN more than a little weird- even though I actually do...

Literally the most interesting man in the world

Anyone who listens to heavy metal on anything approaching a regular basis has heard of Bruce Dickinson. He is, quite simply, THE best heavy metal vocalist out there today. There was a time when one could dispute that accolade. The case could be made that Ronnie James...

(Musical) Girl Friday

Rather than blatantly ripping off borrowing from friend and reader Last Redoubt’s Girl Friday concept- go check out the impressive collection of what the old-timers used to call “bodacious babes” over at his place- I decided to go out and find...

The sooner, the better

The madcap geniuses behind the fake cartoon band CHILDREN OF BATMAN- the pun is hysterically funny if you know your heavy metal- have FINALLY decided to tell us when they will (probably) release the next installment of this wickedly funny series of animated shorts set...