Top 50 Glam Metal Albums Album Notes #1-5 by Wisco Album Notes #6-10 by Lord of the Wasteland Below are what we, the staff of Metal-Rules.com, have collectively decided are the best and/or most influential glam metal albums of all time. Before someone screams to us that glam METAL, is…
Interviews Done In 2003
Interviews Done In 2003 December 2003 Neil Turbin – Former Anthrax Vocalist Tales From the Pit Video Producer Jerry Allen Tomas Andersson of Denata Skid Row – Bassist Rachel Bolan The Forsaken Fernando von Arb of Krokus Max Kolesne of Krisiun Christer Espevoll of Extol November 2003 Zakk Wylde –…
KROKUS- guitarist Fernando von Arb interview (2003)
Interview and live pictures by Marko Syrjala This interview comes out a little bit late, but it’s still up to date because the band releases a brand new double live album and DVD called “Fire and Gasoline” at the beginning of next year. I managed to catch legendary guitarist and…
Six Feet Under – Maximum Video (DVD)
Reviewed: December 2003 Released: 2001, Metal BladeRating: 3.0/5 Reviewer: Lord of the Wasteland Preamble/Intro –
Rush – Rush In Rio (DVD)
Reviewed: December 2003 Released: 2003, AnthemRating: 5.0/5 Reviewer: Lord of the Wasteland Preamble/Intro A concert film of the band first visit to Brazil and an accompanying documentary. Regarded as one of the better concert films.
Backyard Babies – Stockholm Syndome
Reviewed: December 2003Released: Dece, BMGRating: 4.0/5 Reviewer: Anders Sandvall The long awaited new album with Backyard Babies has arrived. It was released at the end of last year. It was heavily delayed because of that Nicke and Dregen designed their own guitar which they have been out to promote. The…
Suidakra – Auld Lang Syne
Reviewed: December 2003Released: 1998, Last Episode ProductionsRating: 4.0/5 Reviewer: Waspman Some bands just don’t get the credit that they deserve. Take for example Suidakra. Toiling in the metal underground since 1994, they have yet to achieve the massive success they have undoubtedly earned, though they do have a dedicated cult…
The Illuminati – The Illuminati
Reviewed: December 2003Released: 2003, October 32 RecordsRating: 5.0/5 Reviewer: Waspman Just to show that its not just Americans and, more specifically, Small Stone Records that is putting out kick ass pure-bred old school rock and roll these days, allow me to present The Illuminati. Some of you (mostly Ontario readers)…
Fleshrot – Songs from the Dead
Reviewed: December 2003Released: 2003, Nobody RecordsRating: 2.0/5 Reviewer: Waspman Fleshrot is a fairly unique project by Nobody Records founder Mark Harvey. Mark is a huge fan of all things horror and Halloween, and Nobody Records is his outlet. Thus far he has put out three HauntScape albums for use in…
Misery Inc. – Suicide Serenade
Reviewed: December 2003Released: 2003, IndependentRating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Waspman Yet another new young band from, where else??, Finland. Misery Inc. is one more in a long line of bands to hail from that most depressed of countries. More importantly they are one of the best new bands right now. Playing a…
Swallow The Sun – The Morning Never Came
Reviewed: December 2003Released: 2003, Firebox RecordsRating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Waspman Swallow the Sun is a new band hailing from the ever-fertile metal hotbed that is Finland. Formed in 2000, the band contains a number of ex-members of Funeris Nocturnum. The band are extremely fast workers, having only recorded their demo in…
Catch 22 – Awaken
Reviewed: December 2003Released: 2003, Molten Metal USA RecordsRating: 4.0/5 Reviewer: Waspman This CD came to me with no bio or band information whatsoever, and the band’s website isn’t a whole lot more informative as to the origins of the band, so I’ll just skip all of the usual preamble and…
Luca Turilli – Prophet of the Last Eclipse
Reviewed: December 2003Released: 2002, Limb MusicRating: 5.0/5 Reviewer: Night of the Realm It’s finally here. Three years after the release of his first solo work, KING OF THE NORDIC TWILIGHT (which I prefer even to Rhapsody’s amazing catalog), PROPHET OF THE LAST ECLIPSE, the second solo album by Rhapsody’s mastermind…
Various Artists – Blackmores’s Castle: A Tribute to Deep Purple and Rainbow
Reviewed: December 2003Released: 2003, Lion MusicRating: 3.5/5 Reviewer: Rick In the history of heavy metal few men have had as big an influence on the genre as Ritchie Blackmore. As guitar players go there are few more revered than the legendary Blackmore. During his time in Deep Purple and Rainbow…
Thunderstone – The Burning
Reviewed: December 2003Released: 2003, Nuclear BlastRating: 5.0/5 Reviewer: Rick Back in the “old” days bands didn’t waste time between album releases. Most groups released albums on a yearly basis and sometimes even faster if you want to look at such heavyweights as Sabbath and Priest who sometimes had a scant…