Glad I found flac copies somewhere online about 18 years ago. Some really good songs. It was very frustrating that I didn't even know these albums existed after I watched The Final Chapter about 30 years ago.

Thought it was cool Bought the cd from Columbia house lol Liked it enough to keep it That was me too. Getting it from Columbia House around April 1993. Never heard Kiss before. I had gotten this History of Metal edition of Metal Edge I think it was and just started buying albums based on the pictur...

For me, Blizzard and Diary are about 4 or 5 songs: I Don't Know Crazy Train Goodbye To Romance Suicide Solution Mr. Crowley Diary: Over The Mountain Flying High Again You Can't Kill Rock N Roll SATO Diary of A Madman Crazy Train is stronger than anything on Diary, but you remove it and Diary is a fa...

There is a lot of great stuff on this album. Blizzard is overrated by Trunkers, guys who are around the same age as Eddie Trunk who are also obsessed with stuff released from around 1976-1982 when most of em were in middle and high school. Blizzard and Diary have the stronger singles, but they are v...

Rave in Fire/Sons Of A Lie Drown Again/Emerge Blood By Design/The Ancient One Kerion/Age of Cyborgs Evil Conspiracy/The Demons Mark Brymir/Voices In The Sky Cyhra/No Halos In Hell Savage Master/Those That Hunt At Night Vice/For The Fallen Ironbound/The Lightbringer Holy Power Metal, Batman! Or are ...

Smart. Cash out while the brand still has some value. Inevitably AI will invent new bands and new music. All these celebrities lobbying tech companies and the government to protect their jobs will eventually be replaced. There won't even be celebrities. People will just have AI that makes new things...

I tried talking to him at Exxotica some years back. Asked if he heard from someone that used to drive him around that I knew when she was in porn. First thing was that he was incredibly hard of hearing. Then he said he didn't remember this person even though she had posted plenty of evidence that th...

First thing is to have something good to listen on. A lot of things don't have great conversion from the digital back to analog for listening. Then there's the headphone amplification and the headphones themselves. When it comes to speakers, maybe you need at least 10k. I never bothered to get into ...

There's a lot of good stuff post-Dysfunctional. That record wasn't even that great. The last top notch album with Don Dokken was UFTA. Sunless Days and There Was A Time are really great. Not as good as something like Dream Warriors, but not that inferior either. Biggest problem was having to write f...

I don't see how anyone can side with Phil here. It's 2024. People record stuff with phones. He and the band still sound quite good in these clips, it's like free advertising. No one is staying away from these shows due to being able to watch Youtube. I stay away because these type of acts play at pl...

I didn't think this would last. You can't have a guy with a compromised immune system out there contracting Covid and whatever else over and over. The powers that be have done a great job conning everyone into thinking Covid is just another simple flu virus, but the actual reality is gonna hit peopl...

How about Miles Away from Fastway? Awesome song. Lea Hart was great. Best version was probably the one with Dennis Stratton on vocals from the 1994 English Steel album. Has a bit better mastering than the 1991 album. The Fastway version is awesome too. Too bad Lea Hart never became well-known as he ...

There are some songs I like. When it first came out I thought it was a big stepdown from MC94 and Feelgood. Definitely not the kinda record one would want from them. New Tattoo was a big improvement in terms of songs, but it sounds like a cheap demo. Plus Tommy's drum sound is sorely lacking. You wo...

A lot of times new material isn't mediocre. Sometimes we get a great song or two like Stand from Dee or October Song from Skid Row. It's very rare though. Optimist by Anathema to me was an instant classic and the best thing they ever did. A big part of the problem is how modern records sound. Compro...

I'll have to watch some live clips to see how bad Ace is these days. Maybe there's a reason he wasn't ever brought back into Kiss. I've listened to a few of the new album tracks on Youtube. It's not bad, but I get what everyone is saying about Steve Brown probably doing most of the work. Ace has a r...

I've always been partial to Schizophrenia. Arise is pretty good, but I've never desired to listen to it consistently. Could say the same about Beneath. Chaos AD and Roots were too mainstream 90s to me. Against is not bad. It has about the same type of appeal as Battlezone/Feel My Pain. Their newer s...

It's great to see that Clarence got himself a picture. You know Gene is just salivating at the thought of finally being able to get into business with someone tied into OCP. Man, Leno looks like he let himself go. Gene Wilder doesn't look so bad though.

Is this guy worse than Laimbeer? I didn't start watching the NBA until 30 years ago and stopped after the Bulls dynasty was disbanded, but I've seen so many things about Laimbeer being the dirtiest player ever. Sounds like the league just keeps changing for the worse. Any time I try to watch it, it ...

Axl sounds like a struggling Mickey Mouse on so many songs these days. They should just take out the stuff he can't sing. If they stuck to what he does best, you'd probably only be able to cobble together a 90 min set.

Rob has been boring for at least the last 20 years. He just stands there and hunches over constantly with his cane. He was so boring compared to Testament on the Metal Gods tour that I ended up leaving halfway through his set. He also does the talk-singing as others have noted. Ripper still has the ...

It's not safe for anyone to tour, especially Skid Row's singer. Thought I saw a new press release saying band members and crew also had covid along with flu. Didn't Gay Stanley just say he thought he might not have made it? Our bodies can only sustain a limited amount of damage from covid. Each rein...

Sounds like Axl trying to be Manson and also fit in with Nu-Metal. It's a very mediocre song lifted up by Axl. The problem is that the FX render what he says unintelligible at times. I can't make out any of the words. If this is what he was given, I can see why he was frustrated with the producers. ...

I agree that Dokken has more chops musically. But songs weren’t there like other bands. Plus Don is and always has been a cunt. Back for the Attack and Under Lock and Key are probably the 2 most consistent albums of the genre. Both are fucking killer. No/to little filler. The songs were there. They...

Isn't this the same stuff that leaked a few years ago? The original Hard School is much better. What I want to hear is the stuff that came later that Finck claims is some of the best music of its sort ever recorded. Maybe they'll get to that eventually if it even exists. Hard School shoulda been on ...

Listened to this the other day. Even if the song was good. The sound is sonic garbage. How these artists and engineers think mangling everything to death makes sense is beyond me. And the fact that engineers keep buying pieces of hardware that cost more than a Rolex to put out garbage like this...I ...

Almost every song on this has at least above average hooks and riffs. It's certainly far better than anything they did after getting Rob back. A lot of their older albums were far less consistent. Jugulator has never been a fav of mine aside from Cathedral Spires. Demolition just has a very 2001 pro...

First Poison song I heard in '93. I think I gambled on the tape or got it free somehow. Never heard them on radio or Headbanger's Ball by that point. Always been impressed with this one. Poison had cool album covers and this one lived up to them.

I'll add another one for Scott Ian. I've written the story on here once or twice since it happened 20 years ago. Simply arrived for the We've Come For You All signing and they must've ended it over an hour early. The band were in the store still, but not at their table. A buddy and I were carrying ...

I'll add another one for Scott Ian. I've written the story on here once or twice since it happened 20 years ago. Simply arrived for the We've Come For You All signing and they must've ended it over an hour early. The band were in the store still, but not at their table. A buddy and I were carrying t...

Yeah this production really overdoes it on the hard tuning. Autotune can sound really natural. I was revising a project I did for a guy and it sounded so natural that I forgot I had even inserted it when I originally started mixing it. But it does make a vocal sound more compressed for sure. There's...