From Hell’s Heart-Top 5 album covers Art and Metal have been inextricably linked. From the early (and maybe current again?) days when Metal fans would make vinyl purchase decisions on artwork alone, to the modern multi-media presentations on youtube promoting albums, artwork has been critical to the success of many bands. There have…
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Brutal Assault 2017
Metal-Rules.com will be attending and covering the upcoming Brutal Assault festival on the 8-11th of August 2018 Twenty-third edition of the Brutal Assault Festival is slowly gaining more concrete outlines. The festival, whose fans come from all over the world, once again attracted great artists of all metal genres. A truly…
The mighty THOR announces tour to support DVD/Blu-Ray release of award winning documentary Film, I AM THOR!
(Contact Info below) NEWS RELEASE Wednesday, Feb 24, 2016 Calgary, Alberta I AM THOR DVD/Blu-Ray screener & concert to tour Canada: Thor and the award winning documentary head North! After an incredibly successful release in the USA of the Award winning documentary, I AM THOR, the saga…
2015-Canadian Metal-A Year In Review
2015-Canadian Metal-A Year In Review by JP 2015 was a superb year for Canadian Metal in terms of music, tours and the industry. Not surprisingly, Quebec lead the charge with that single province producing a large percentage of all the Metal albums released in Canada. In exciting industry news, the…
Remembering Lemmy
Condolences for Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister (24 December 1945 – 28 December 2015) Like all Motörhead fans, many of us here feel a connection to the rebel spirit and music of Motörhead. As Lemmy himself was anything but pretentious, we won’t ramble on. Here are just a few words, thoughts, and pictures about this…
From Hell’s Heart Halloween/horror monster week 5: Werewolves
From Hell’s Heart Halloween/horror monster week 5: Werewolves The month of October means the imminent arrival of the Heavy Metal Holy Day…Halloween! This, the scariest and Metal-est of all months, we bring you five new topics for our editorial column FROM HELL’S HEART. Each week we will post the staff…
From Hell’s Heart: Halloween/horror monster week 4: Vampires
From Hell’s Heart Halloween/horror monster week 4: Vampires The month of October means the imminent arrival of the Heavy Metal Holy Day…Halloween! This, the scariest and Metal-est of all months, we bring you five new topics for our editorial column FROM HELL’S HEART. Each week we will post the staff…
From Hell’s Heart: Halloween/horror monster week 3: Zombies
From Hell’s Heart Halloween/horror monster week 3: Zombies The month of October means the imminent arrival of the Heavy Metal Holy Day…Halloween! This, the scariest and Metal-est of all months, we bring you five new topics for our editorial column FROM HELL’S HEART. Each week we will post the staff…
From Hell’s Heart: Halloween/horror monster week 2: Ghosts
From Hell’s Heart: Halloween/horror monster week 2: Ghosts The month of October means the imminent arrival of the Heavy Metal Holy Day…Halloween! This, the scariest and Metal-est of all months, we bring you five new topics for our editorial column FROM HELL’S HEART. Each week we will post the staff…
From Hell’s Heart: Halloween / horror monsters – week 1: Frankenstein
From Hell’s Heart: Halloween/horror monster week 1: Frankenstein The month of October means the imminent arrival of the Heavy Metal Holy Day…Halloween! This, the scariest and Metal-est of all months, we bring you five new topics for our editorial column FROM HELL’S HEART. Each week we will post the staff…
From Hell’s Heart: Top 5 metal versions of non metal songs
From Hell’s Heart: Top 5 metal versions of non metal songs The idea for these lists is simple; when a metal band takes a song that isn’t metal, and turns it into a metal song! We asked our staff what cover songs were the coolest and this is the result.
From Hell’s Heart – Top 5 Metal Movie Soundtracks
From Hell’s Heart: Top 5 Metal Movie Soundtracks To be considered for the list, entries should be for MOSTLY metal soundtracks for movies. Preference is given to “metal movies” but if the movie is just, for example, a horror movie and it has a metal soundtrack, then no problem! One…
From Hell’s Heart – Space Metal!
From Hell’s Heart: SPACE METAL! For our purposes, “Space Metal” is defined as songs about sci-fi stuff….not Apollo 13 “space”. We mean aliens, exploring alien worlds, alternate futures, cool shit like that etc. Here’s what the staff came up with for their top 5 space metal songs!
From Hell’s Heart: The Top 5 Transition Albums
From Hell’s Heart: The Top 5 Transition Albums Some bands (Motorhead, Obituary, Deicide) never change, but most do evolve. There is often a turning point from one album to the next where this transition takes place. It is to that change that we look this week. For our purposes, a transition…
From Hell’s Heart: THE TOP 5 WORST METAL VOCAL REPLACEMENTS
From Hell’s Heart: THE TOP 5 WORST METAL VOCAL REPLACEMENTS We thought it would be cool to follow up last week‘s topic of the best replacements with a top 5 WORST metal vocal replacements. However, so we don’t all have the same list, we had to have some (dis)honorary members that we…