Heavy Metal Tones

Come with me and hear why i think the new WITCHERY album is a modern day blackened thrash album that is a prog rock wonder and a new twist on the concept album

Its deliciously free from the constraint…

Once Upon a midnight dreary, While i ponder weak and weary, Over many s quaint curios volume of forgotten lore,

Edgar Allan Poe dark and mysterious prose has influenced myself and so many people for s…

From the dawn of music we have had a heavy dark side to delve into and enjoy if you want to know more about Doom and all its various sub genres then this might give you a jumping off point into the s…

A longer the usual episode that takes a deepish DIVE into the new Porcupine Tree album and their first since 2009. I may go off on tangents and contradict myself but hey its me thats who i am. Hope o…

Heavy Metal always had a blues swagger to it a sense of swing and easily accessible chord structures, That with little practice you could build the heaviest music in the world.

But that swagger, that …

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Here is the second episode a little longer then usual but getting this all into two episodes was not easy so much to cover. We continue with special guest Benjy Murphy with his incredible insights an…

In the next two weeks we dive deeply into the history behind the songs of Sabaton's album The Great War with my good friend Benjy Murphy and i get to pick his mind and passion for the great war the w…

One one album in my mind captures the moment and changed the world quite like Never Mind the Bollocks.

How do you feel about come and find out why its the most important album of the 20th Century

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This weeks episode is the 50th who would have thought id get this far not me, its been a pleasure and a saviour of both my mental health and a artistic life line. So THANKS SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE WIT…

How many of us have or have had owned a band shirt, most of us. So in tribute to all of us nutty band shirt people whom proudly display their allegiances blazoned across their chests i take a walk do…

So after fingering my singles collection i came across these two gem's Samon's 1982 double single release Life On The Road and Witchfynde 1979 Cult classic and NWOBHM masterclass Give Em Hell. Please…

So as usual i have picked an album thats more emotional to me then the perfect Ozzy album so it may turn heads but once you have heard my argument you might understand where im coming from. Please le…

There is was a time when the heavy became extreme and its different for all of us, where and when did it happen for you or are you thinking you might want try it. Before you do take a listen to my st…

So here is the holy duo of Heavy metal comedies that on one hand play homage and on the other down right poke fun at all the foibles and nuances that come rolled in the tight denim and leather that i…

Across the oceans and in two very different cities a counter culture was bubbling under. One a speed driven surf infused art house vibe that had more in common with Jack Keroauc and beat poetry then …

So As the leaves fall from the trees and the winter wind bites our faces and fingers what music do you like to take you through to the sunny uplands of spring and into the heat of Summer.

Lets see wha…

Back to the usual ramble through my mind and a chat about some late night lockdown buys and local finds. BE WARNED i do make some off mic noises as i attempt to make what is essentially a visual medi…

80 years ago he worlds most famous woman went missing trying to traverse the globe in her Lockheed Model 10 E and sparking a rescue search unlike anything before or since. But as her husband and the …

Into the history books flew the R101 to be forgotten by but a few enthusiasts of early aviation, But brought to life and to the minds of millions by the greatest band on the planet's creative and cur…