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When you think of the Los Angeles metal bands of the 80’s who comes to mind?  Motley Crue?  Ratt?  W.A.S.P?   Poison?  Guns N Roses?   Maybe even Armored Saint.  While all these bands are terrific and have made their mark in the heavy metal community, the scene wouldn’t have kicked off without a group called Dokken. Continue reading Dokken – The True Originators of 80’s Pop Metal

The 90’s were an interesting decade for music.  Many musical acts that had experienced lengthy amounts of success in the previous decade started to become obsolete. Continue reading 80’s Band’s in the 90’s

I was recently on another metal blog site that labeled all the Black Sabbath albums from weakest to strongest.  Honestly, it’s a pretty solid list.  However, I feel like there was some bias to the original line up of the group. Continue reading Black Sabbath – 20 albums ranked

Over the years the Red Hot Chili Peppers have morphed into the bland, soft, Luke Warm Chili Peppers. Continue reading L.W.C.P. – New single ‘Dark Necessities’, exactly what we didn’t want

The Darkness, we all remember their breakthough hit in 2003.  The not quite a parody yet not quite serious enough “I Believe in a Thing Called Love.”  It was catchy, cheeky and fun.  However, when their sophomore album came out two years later their one hit wonder was quickly forgotten and “One Way Ticket to Hell…and Back” bombed.  The Darkness disappeared for the better part of a decade. Continue reading The Darkness – From one hit parody wonders to serious heavy rock contenders