KaiKaspareK's Kremling Kreator

          The greatest hits/best of album:  If there was ever a product of a bygone era, it's this.  For those of you born in, say, the mid 90s and onward, the greatest hits album was what people bought if a) they were new to a band and wanted to know which songs to start with, or b) only wanted the "hits" from a band.  Said hits were curated by the band, the band's leader, record company execs who think they know what's best, or some combination thereof.  It should go without saying that this was pre-internet, nevermind streaming.  Insert your own 1800s joke here.     Said collection could be a boost that provides new interest in a waning band.  It could turn out to be the product that provides a musician with the most consistent and largest pay cheque they can receive.  There was a long period of time where The Eagles first such compilation, titled Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)  was the highest selling r...

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 (in register, not volume). 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,...

           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...