Exploring the 'Black' #4
Couldn't pass up the double dose of black in today's offering. No big back story either. As a guitarist, I just dig me some Zakk action!…
Exploring the 'Black' #3
This band was a recommendation from a work colleague about 10 years ago. We'd got to talking about musical styles we were into over drinks, and that ultimately lead to various comparisons being made across genres and time periods. Both being mid-30's tech-geek dad&…
Exploring the 'Black' #2
Time to get your psychedelic freak on baby...…
Breaking the rules / Exploring the 'Black' #1
So to follow up spinning the black circle, the next 2 songs that queued up also suspiciously had the word 'black' in the song title and then band name. So lets have some fun with that. I'm going to pause the random-o-meter for the…
When is a black album not a black album?
Vitalogy, in my mind, continued the 'exploratory' side of things for Pearl Jam. It contained a bunch of cracking songs - but this is one of my faves. It was a song that also lent itself to being easily covered by Metal bands of varying styles! Play it loud,…
A Metal Staple
Judging by the crowd enthusiasm at Knotfest 2024 in Melbourne this year, you can't be a Metal fan and not like Pantera. I particularly enjoyed it as it was my first Dad/Son festival experience on account of AJ throwing his knee in a Mountain Biking mishap. I…
What were they called?
When I think about one-album wonders, this band comes to mind. But the reality is they already had a number of albums under their belt from the post-grunge mid-90's hey day before this one went ballistic in 2000. At The Drive-in gave an energetic…
Dad Friendly Festival
Knotfest 2023 in Melbourne was my first endeavour back into the festival scene for a very, very, very long time and marked the start of a now annual tradition of 'catching a gig' with one of my oldest friends, AJ. Although we were both 'Mid-40 Metal…