Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love – Classic Album Review
Kate Bush is arguably the most gifted songwriter that the UK has produced in the last 50 years and Hounds of Love is the...
Through still waters and Unholy Fires – A brief note on the brilliance of...
For those of you out there who treasure deeply atmospheric black metal, there is a record from 2015 entitled The Wiccan by the Greek...
Ugly Kid Joe ‘America’s Least Wanted’
“Are you the guys on the beach that hate everything?” asks the old woman at the start of Ugly Kid Joe’s biggest song. Judging...
Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
This is the album that started it all, by the band that started it all. Black Sabbath were the first heavy metal band. That...
RAMzine Classic: Stevie Salas Colorcode
For an artist that has appeared on over 70 different albums with artists from George Clinton, Justin Timberlake and Buddy Miles to Mick Jagger...
Audioslave – Audioslave
There seems to be a recurring 'supergroup' theme in recent RAMzine Classic articles. As always, the albums that are analysed are done so because...
RAMzine Classic: Lone Star – Firing on all Six
Lone Star are an underrated band, from Cardiff, forming in 1975 and swapping various members of the band for the line-up they had in...
RAMzine Classic – The Kennedy Experience
I always try to do something different for the RAMzine Classic feature. I can think of dozens of genuine classics, nearly all of which...
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
We've been through this all before. Black Sabbath were the first heavy metal band. Working the "diminished 5th" chord, or "tri-tone", they created a...
In The Dark The Dancers Shout – A Short Essay On Rainbow’s Difficult To...
When former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore launched Rainbow in 1975 (the self-titled debut LP released that same year sported the moniker Ritchie Blackmore’s...
