Unfortunately, the.bogus act owns the name it sounds like. Owning the name doesn’t really help if you can’t play the old songs, which they no longer can since the publisher, Burton Cummings, pulled the performing rights license. It’s a precedent in the industry that can have far reaching ramificati...

Greg Smith, who played in bands we discuss here, is the current bass player in the Guess Who. He has some great Sludge on his FB page, calling out Burton. I see a lot of self-serving nonsense on that page. This guy Greg is a hired hand who's collecting a check, nothing more. While I feel for him th...

Greg Smith, who played in bands we discuss here, is the current bass player in the Guess Who. He has some great Sludge on his FB page, calling out Burton.

I have the album for review purposes. It’s good, but there are no curve balls coming. It’s exactly what you would expect. It sounds like latter day Slayer’s and latter day Death Angel’s baby. If you like Slayer and DA’s last albums you will like this, if you don’t you won’t. I’m giving it a 7 to 7.5...

Faulkner told my colleague, off the record, prior to an interview, that they would be in Canada in October.

Do you guys think Jack doesn't know what's going on? He's not senile but everyone else is to blame because he won't face reality. It's no different than Paul DiAnno, Ozzy, Bon Jovi or Paul Stanley. Like them, he knows. It's his pride and vanity dragging him on that stage, not those scabs. Fuck him....

A fan on FB writes the following... """""""""""""Whoever the promoter is for Jack Russell's great white band you should pull your head out of your ass and understand that the show we saw at Lava Cantina The Colony tonight was an embar...

That’s brutal!

How does anyone think it’s right to have Jack out on the road? Be it Jack, bandmates, promoters, booking agent, or management.

I know there’s a lot of opinions on Jack, but I would not want to wake up every day and walk in his shoes.

Music for Priest fans who think Painkiller is their best album. That’s who the real Priest is catering for as well. Not at all. If you listen to the new album the best part of it is the diversity. There’s absolutely elements of Painkiller, but also elements of Turbo/Ram It Down, the reunion era, th...

parasite74 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:37 am KK Priest is a much better band than Judas Priest is at this point. Both live and on record.

They are great at playing Priest material. Their originals are generic, paint by numbers metal crap. Music for Priest fans who think Painkiller is their best album.

Funny how it’s never successful artists, who wrote and performed great originals, who have these gripes. Always a D-lister who’s jealous the cover band draws 5x the crowd and $ he does. Here’s an idea… be better, or accept your lot in life.

Rocker4Real wrote: ↑Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:21 pm Dogman is the best album and "Pretend" is a great song. If you've only heard "It's Love", and "Over My Head", you aren't familiar with King's X.

Great choice! I also agree with you on people simply naming singles/videos.

It’s excellent… but Dogman is their best song.

A lot of the answer has to do with if it’s a corporately (often Live Nation) owned venue, or a privately held club. In the case of a Live Nation owned venue, they are the promoter, the ticket seller, and a venue. So even though there’s overhead/staffing/etc. to pay for the venue, they are paying the...

BernieTaupson wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 6:14 am Fucking horrible.

https://youtu.be/b1Il_BMoP6M?si=lbYJjnzEbcy_Hrt2

That’s what a man in his 70’s singing heavy metal sounds like. I don’t find it all that bad, and friends there said it was great.

An absolutely amazing release for any band, let alone a veteran band. Heavy moments, melodic moments… a very diverse record; well played and produced, with Halford in fine voice (admittedly with “help” I’m sure). Fans from every era can enjoy this record. 8.5/10 PS - blows KK’s Priest away. THAT was...

Worst Crüe album. Total botched comeback attempt. Instead of giving old fans the nostalgia they wanted they tried to be modern and failed epically. Give me New Tattoo or SOLA any day.

It’s a 8/10 for me. Thinking man’s metal. Bruce challenges the listener… it’s not paint by numbers metal (a la KK or Accept). It takes several listens to take everything in, establish favourites - and those favourites will evolve. It’s nowhere near Accident of Birth or The Chemical Wedding, but it’s...

I was at Ray Gillen’s third show with Black Sabbath. Pre-internet days, and nobody knew Glenn Hughes was out, nor who the new guy was. It took a review in the local paper, two days later, to provide the story… and the mystery singer’s name.

Darkmist wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 1:58 pm I dont know what people expected

NOT “Mick Mars presents Brides Of Destruction - The Sequel”

Something in the vein of MC94, with a singer not singing through a megaphone, would have been nice. Corabi would have been a bonus.

Motley Crue "retirement contract" This is my favourite, as every now and then, here on Sludge, or on social media, you get people referring to it as if it was real/legal/binding, and using it as the basis of their argument. Truly the gift that keeps giving in being able to point out human...

I really wanted to like this. It’s a huge disappointment. You’d think, given his age and experience he’d do something retro. Instead we get modern rock garbage, with horrible Emo vocals, a la Brides Of Destruction and Sixx AM.

Nice to see the love and respect for an excellent, honest, hard working band. Given my age I came on board with their third album, No Rest For The Wicked, and if you make a playlist of that and the 3-4 albums that followed you’ll find yourself rockin’ all afternoon. No Rest For The Wicked Walkin’ Th...

Massive Rush fan…

I HATE Mystic Rhythms.

Cheezy video aside, the song is really good and Blaze is singing better than ever.

RIP to classic era Helix drummer Greg “Fritz” Hinz. You guys might remember him as the blond-haired, half clothed, wild man drummer in their videos and at their shows. He was with the band, on and off, for 40 years and played on all their classic era records. A great drummer and even better person, ...

It’s a great record… OK, a good one. Bold for them, and appropriate for the times. The only people I know who don’t like it are the heavier/faster true metal meatheads whom feel threatened by anything melodic and argue that Painkiller is the best metal record of all time.

cowpins wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 10:24 am Cue thunderdan.

Does anyone know the AC/DC Pre-sale code?
Does anyone know who's opening for AC/DC?
Does anyone know if AC/DC is doing stadium, or arena's?

You forgot “does anyone else think Poison would fit great on
the AC/DC tour”!

Complete and utter generic, assembly line shit, written by the Frontiers in-house writing team. Devoid of any soul. Could have been performed by any “super-group” they decided to form that week.

As many have said, not unexpected but very sad. Addiction sucks, and can turn a person who has “everything” into a person who has nothing in short order.

RIP. I enjoyed his work when he was well.