Metal Weekend on VH1 Classic has taught (and in some cases, re-taught) me many things: + Appetite for Destruction is that rarest of albums: note perfect wire to wire + Loudness had, like, six videos + That Metal Show is more informative than the BBC and C-SPAN combined + Rik Emmett really made some....

Deleted because I - as the comments have indicated - am a complete dumbass. Boy, time sure flies....

As some of you may recall, back in May I joined Joni and The Thing That Walks Like A Man for a delightful evening of heavy metal and Satan worship at Iron Maiden's "Somewhere Back in Time" tour. Now, the proud Americans behind Metal: A Headbanger's journey have commemorated the occasion with Flight ...

I like Christmas. Okay, not really, but I do like one aspect of it, and that's how the music of the season offers further support for my argument that John Lennon was superior to Paul McCartney. Exhibit A - "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" Yoko's atonal presence is negated by Phil Spector's production and...

Friend and award-winning filmmaker Don reacted to my attending both the new Indiana Jones movie and the Iron Maiden show in May by commenting it must have felt like prom was just around the corner. And while I have yet to go scrounge for Chris DeBurg's "Lady in Red" on iTunes, my attending this even...

Heavy Metal Parking Lot Restaurant Most of you are aware of the 1986 mini-doc Heavy Metal Parking Lot, which peeled back the mystique shrouding the world of metal to show us the cream of Amerca's youth. Shot before a Judas Priest show at the Capital Center in Largo, MD. It's a wonderful, all-too bri...

Good as the old Boss. Saw Bruce Springsteen at the Toyota Center last night. Maybe it was because we had seats in the section with its own bar, and maybe it was because everyone around us was actually a fan (unlike when we saw him on the Rising tour in 2002), but it was a fantastic show that hit on ...

Settle an internal debate for me: Who's the best Australian band? AC-DC INXS Midnight Oil Men At Work Bee Gees Crowded House Air Supply Little River Band The Church Hoodoo Gurus Icehouse The Vines someone else...    pollcode.com free polls Yes, I know it's AC / DC, slashes apparently screw...

So thanks to whoever perused my Amazon wishlist and sent me Michael K. Haynes' The god Of Rock: A Christian Perspective of Rock Music last month. It's given me and my family hours of amusement, especially my sister-in-law, whose recent bout with stomach flu necessitated her spending several days in ...