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...
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....
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...
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...
RAMzine Modern Classics: Tool – Fear Inoculum
Tool are a band that require no lengthy or grand introduction, put simply they are (arguably) the greatest progressive rock/metal band of all time,...
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...
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...
Iron Maiden – Brave New World
The year 2000 was a strange time for rock and metal. Nu-metal was really catching on and the classic guard seemed to be becoming...
Modern Classics: Architects ‘Hollow Crown’
Hollow Crown was a genre defining, attention grabbing, technically perfect album released by the Brighton metal outfit Architects. Before Hollow Crown, Architects had produced...
