I’ve been listening to Dio albums all week and getting a bit choked up. To hear that soaring voice inside your head and know he’s somewhere else … it doesn’t seem real. He doesn’t sound like

“You New Zealanders are insane, I’m sure there was a barrier here earlier. But you know what? FUCK THE CUNTING BARRIER!” Alestorm stormed our shores, raped, pillaged and drank their way through all our wine, played

Yarrr! It’s pirate metal week, and I’m stoked to get an interview with Chris Bowes, vocalist and keytarist of Alestorm, who will be rocking their own brand of pirate madness at Rising Sun in Auckland this

Some people have noticed I got rid of the “Links of Doom” tab on my navigation bar in my last site cleanup. Truthfully, I kept forgetting to update it, and all the links were out of

Forgive me, for I’m about to get a little fan-girl on you ass: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!   Right, now that’s out of the way, on to reviewing Surtur Rising. Arguably one of the most highly anticipated metal releases

A little history lesson on Finnish metal, compiled in about 20 minutes from total memory while a nerd tries to fix my internet, so please feel free to comment/correct in the comments if I haven’t got