Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden wrote an autobiography with a “cute” title, What Does This Button Do?, that is coming out October 19th in the UK.
9 CommentsTags: book, bruce dickenson, Heavy Metal, iron maiden, metal books, news, NWOBHM
Kerry King’s Favorite Metal Albums
Slayer‘s Kerry King dished out his top ten favorite metal albums to Rolling Stone as part of the geriatric soft rock magazine’s imbecilic Top 100 Metal Albums list.
9 CommentsTags: ac/dc, black sabbath, Exodus, hard rock, Heavy Metal, iron maiden, judas priest, kerry king, mainstream metal, master of puppets, mercyful fate, metallica, news, NWOBHM, ozzy osbourne, rainbow, rolling stone, slayer, Speed Metal, venom
Lars Ulrich Reveals Influences in List of His Favorite Metal & Rock Albums
Lars Ulrich revealed his fifteen favorite heavy metal and hard rock albums to Rolling Stone magazine as part of Rolling Stone’s list of their 100 favorite metal albums.
4 CommentsTags: black sabbath, diamond head, Heavy Metal, judas priest, lars ulrich, Lightning to the Nations, metallica, motorhead, nu-metal, NWOBHM, rap rock, rolling stone, Speed Metal, Unleashed in the East
Angel Witch Releases Seventies Tapes For Free
Angel Witch has release the 1970s demos that they still hold the rights and tapes to for pay as you go digital download on Bandcamp. The renowned New Wave of British Heavy Metal band did this to benefit the survivors of the recent tenement apartment tower fire in London. All of these tracks were on the now out of print Sinister History CD along with contemporary live recordings. Death Metal Underground strongly advises all fans and downloaders to not pay anything or contribute anything to this funding attempt at social justice warring and undermining western nations.
19 CommentsTags: Angel Witch, anthology, bandcamp, cash grab, demo, demos, flac, Heavy Metal, idiocy, islam, NWOBHM, sjws, social justice warriors, united kingdom
Pagan Altar Readies Room of Shadows
New Wave of British Heavy Metal Band are finally releasing their long in the words album, Room of Shadows. Room of Shadows consists of unreleased vocal tracks from deceased frontman Terry Jones that were supposed to be released as Never Quite Dead in 2014. Never Quite Dead was delayed, the instrumental tracks were rerecorded, and the album became Room of Shadows, which is to finally see release on Temple of Mystery Records on August 24, 2017.
No CommentsTags: comeback, Doom Metal, Heavy Metal, NWOBHM, Pagan Altar, temple of mystery records, upcoming album, upcoming release
A Statement From Barry McKay
Barry McKay, one of the parties in the recent Beckett versus Iron Maiden “Hallowed by Thy Name” and “The Nomad” plagiarism lawsuit sent Death Metal Underground an email and statement to publish to clear up what he claimed were inaccuracies in George Psalmanazar’s initial article on the lawsuit.
10 CommentsTags: beckett, copyright, Heavy Metal, iron maiden, NWOBHM, prog rock, progressive rock
Iron Maiden Being Sued Over Tribute Lyrics
Article by George Psalmanazar.
A member of 1970s British progressive rock band Beckett is suing Iron Maiden for a six line lyrical tribute in ‘”Hallowed Be Thy Name” off Number of the Beast to one of Steve Harris’s favorite prog rock songs, “Life’s Shadow”. Some random band manager Barry McKay is suing Iron Maiden on behalf of Brian “Ingham” Quinn, one of the two credited writers of “Life’s Shadow”. McKay is alleging that Iron Maiden came to a secret settlement with the other writer credited on the record, Bob Barton, and that Quinn really wrote the song himself back in 1969 rather than in the early 70s when both of them were in Beckett. Barton is also being sued and McKay is now trying to hit Iron Maiden up for a “few hundred pounds per live performance” for a license to perform their own music.
3 CommentsTags: beckett, copyright, Heavy Metal, iron maiden, lyrics, news, NWOBHM, prog rock, progressive rock
Satan – Court in the Act (1983)
Article by George Psalmanazar.
Satan‘s Court in the Act exists in a unique space between the New Wave of British Heavy Metal and speed metal. As a wholly metal album that attempts no pandering to mainstream radio rock unlike seemingly every other NWOBHM band, Court in the Act is by far the strongest studio album of that sub-genre/movement and incredibly influential to American speed metal bands Metallica, Megadeth, and Slayer.
17 CommentsTags: Court in the Act, Heavy Metal, listenable records, neoclassical, neoclassical metal, NWOBHM, review, Satan, Speed Metal
Judas Priest – Painkiller (1990)
Article contributed to Death Metal Underground by George Psalmanazar, continuing his series of Judas Priest reviews.
Painkiller is Judas Priest‘s most consistent studio album coming out right after the band spent the entire decade of the 80s pandering to mainstream arena and glam rock fans. Slayer were a tremendous influence this time around; Judas Priest toured toured with them in the late 80s and subsequently listened to most of Slayer’s studio catalog. Painkiller there is a heavy metal album heavily influenced by the heaviest speed metal bordering on early death metal. Early power metal took a similar approach but in much more limp-wristed way.
27 CommentsTags: 1990, Heavy Metal, judas priest, NWOBHM, painkiller, review, Speed Metal
Judas Priest – Unleashed in the East (1979)
Article contributed to Death Metal Underground by George Psalmanazer.
Judas Priest started life as just another Led Zeppelin influenced band in the early 1970s. Quickly they became massively influenced by Black Sabbath and especially Thin Lizzy. Priest adapting the counterpointed riffing and harmonzied melodic guitar leads of Thin Lizzy into a mixture of progressive rock and the then new heavy metal of Black Sabbath but with operatic vocals instead of Ozzy “singing” the riff through his nose kicked off the New Wave of British Heavy Metal in the late 1970s.
29 CommentsTags: 1979, Heavy Metal, judas priest, live, NWOBHM, progressive rock, review, Unleashed in the East
