Modern Classics: In Cruel Houses of Lost Prayers – The 20th Anniversary of CODE’s...
Twenty years ago, British purveyors of experimental black metal known as CODE released their very first output, namely a five-track demo CD-R entitled Neurotransmissions....
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...
RAMzine Modern Classic: Stuart Smith – Heaven And Earth
Take an album from a guitarist who was taken under the wing of Ritchie Blackmore no less; pepper the album with guests such as...
Can You Hear Them? A Short Piece On Ozzy Osbourne’s Excellent Down To Earth
When legendary rocker Ozzy Osbourne (Black Sabbath) released his first post-millennial record titled Down to Earth in October 2001, six years had passed since...
The Spiritual Blight of The Black Hole Generator – A Terrifying Metal Classic
2016 saw the release of a deeply unsettling and bone-chillingly brilliant opus entitled A Requiem for Terra by the Norwegian black metal/industrial metal entity...
Walking Inside The Temples of Ice – A Glance at Venom’s Overlooked 1991 LP
Black metal pioneers Venom hardly need any introduction as they are the forefathers of everything that is extreme within metal, and their influence on...
Modern Classic: Robert Plant – Dreamland
First of all, I have to admit that I am a rare species on Planet Earth… I do not like Led Zeppelin; cue insults...
Immaculate Deception – Where Did Black Sabbath’s ‘Cross Purposes – Live’ Go?
The pioneers and originators of heavy metal, Black Sabbath, capped off their majestic The End tour with a hometown show in Birmingham in early...
RAMzine Modern Classic: Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell’s ‘Don’t Hear It…Fear It’
100% original and 100% heavy rock that will leave you breathless
The words underappreciated, undervalued, and underrated are often bandied (pun intended) about when discussing...
Turn To Stone – Dio’s marvelous Magica opus and why it’s A Modern...
The hugely talented and sadly missed Ronnie James Dio (1942-2010) surely needs no introduction...
