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Thoughts on Lovebites' Budokan live show:

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I bit the bullet and decided to live stream this.  Not live live but you know what I mean.  I peeked at the setlist ahead of time so I'd say I know 95% of it, just not 100% when and where. Let's go holy diving.... 1) First and foremost I am so happy and so proud of the ladies for selling it out. I was really nervous them announcing this show, as they are about to cross the "old" threshold, in age and band time. But they sold it out, and it likely bought them some time in the business. 2) The ladies are properly singing backup vocals rather than using a track, and they sound pretty good (although they were a little too low on Stand & Deliver) 3) as a general rule if the band isn't promoting a new album, the first three tracks of their shows should always be The Awakening, The Hammer of Wrath, and When Destinies Align, in that order. 4) Speaking of new album, only two songs were performed from it, The Castaway & Eternally. Fine, fine choices, both which ...
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Me vs Loudwire: the top 3 metal songs from each year of the 70s.

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           This is gonna be interesting.  I might not be able to do a top 3 songs for each year, and some of my picks will definitely raise an eyebrow or two.  I thought I might have to tap out at 1 or 2, but turns out I was able to come up with three (four if I'm being honest about my past few lists like this) solid choices that shaped heavy metal as it would become in the 80s and beyond.  Mind you some of these artists are very much borderline metal/not metal at all, but if you were a teenager in the 70s, said artists were part of the metal mixtape as Black Sabbath was.  So let's going holy diving..... 1970: 3. Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath "wHy iSn'T ThIs nUmBeR oNe? It iNvEnTeD mEtAl," I am so fuckin sick of hearing this. Black Sabbath did NOT invent heavy metal.  At least not by themselves.  They were just the first band to claim ownership for it,  defeatedly might I add.   Now this song did centralize metal, abso...
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Lovebites: Outstanding Power

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          After what seemed like an eternity for waiting for an announcement for a new full-length studio album, Lovebites made everyone's Thanksgiving more bearable by doing just that.  With a title that wasn't whimsical mumbo-jumbo crap that seems to plague metal these days:  Outstanding Power !      Now, I don't really do album reviews, and I especially don't write them for metal-archives, but this is an exception.  I mean my most popular post on said blog is a Lovebites' song-ranking for fuck's sake!  So I feel like I have to give a review of it, particularly since the metal press seems to be completely avoiding it, choosing to wait for the Napalm Records release instead.  Ladies, everyone says it, and I'll say it too, FIRE YOUR MANAGEMENT!  This is Jayne Andrews' levels of incompetence.  Hell, I'd entertain the notion that Andrews could do a better job!      If you want the short of ...
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Me vs. Loudwire: The top 3 metal songs of the 80s

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          As we know, I had two previous correction article of Loudwire's plebness (90s and 00s).  I was always planning on an 80s list, but life gets in the way and I just forgot about it ( or thought chastising Lovebites was more important, which it was ). Same deal as the other two.  Top 3 + an honorable mention. 1980: 3. Ozzy Osbourne- Crazy Train This song (and to a lesser, abstract extent,  The Ultimate Sin ) is in fact the reason you are reading this blog, dear reader.  Yup while a bunch of beta chumps and chimps were 402 bad gatewayin into metal through nu-metal and metalcore, I snuck in through the backdoor, like a pimp, through this song.  Nonetheless, I want to maintain some semblance of objectivity and not have it necessarily be #1 because it's my favorite. 2. Black Sabbath- Heaven & Hell Much like Holy Wars ten years after, this song put Black Sabbath in stadiums despite being anything but radio friendly!  Seve...
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