Noise-some Notes – A Week in Listening 17th June 2012
Here’s what’s been assaulting my ears this week. Black Sabbath – Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die The final two albums of the original Ozzy-led era of Sabbath. Neither of these albums are as bad as...
View ArticleTop 10 Albums That Helped Me Through The 90s (Positions 2-4)
The 1990s were a tough time for a young Metal fan and these are the Top 10 albums of the era that helped me get through it! If I knew then what I know now things would maybe be different but these are...
View ArticleNoise-some Notes – A Week in Listening 29th October 2012
Alice Cooper – Killer One of the HMOverlord’s Top-20 albums of all-time and the best of the enviable run of amazing records that the classic line-up put out from Love it to Death to Billion Dollar...
View ArticleNoise-some Notes – A Week in Listening 19th Nov 2012
Another delve into my weekly earload… Black Sabbath – Headless Cross I finally bagged a gorgeous vinyl copy of this superb album. Coming to a Buying Round-Up near you! Oh, I’m not meant to be buying...
View ArticleNoise-some Notes – 24th April 2013
The simplest covers are often the best Master – S/T (Reissue from Doomentia) Master’s 1990 debut is straightforward, filthy fun. One for fans of Venom, this is a raging and ugly blast of brutality with...
View ArticleHow Tempting! – June 2013
I’m sure the market can figure this out. June brings with it a vexing problem… 2 Queensrÿches! If I can paraphrase Charles Bronson a little… that’s 2 Queensrÿches too many. Last month’s victory over...
View ArticleOzzy Osbourne – Blizzard of Ozz
2011 Edition – The one to buy I imagine few people expected Ozzy’s first musical venture after his expulsion from Sabbath to be this good. In fact, I imagine few people expected any musical ventures at...
View ArticleBuying Round-Up – July 2013
Month 7 of the HMO Challenge! With no obviously exciting new releases out in July I had an opportunity to catch up, buying some of the titles I’d resisted in previous months. So there’s a mix of...
View ArticleVenom – Welcome to Hell
Venom – Welcome to Hell Extreme Metal pioneers Venom waged war from the very depths of Hell, raging against the early-80s New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands they considered tame and the heroes that...
View ArticleHow Tempting! – November 2013
Only two months of the HMO Challenge to go and, if you’ve been keeping score, you’ll know there’s no way I’m coming in under budget this year. But, budgets aside, the project has been a useful way of...
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