Tora Tora Sounds Like Judas Priest Fighting Aerosmith
Inside the riff-and-blues collision that made Surprise Attack different from every other 1989 hair metal record.
Dig Me Out
Every album tells a story. Most never get heard. We dig them out with podcasts exploring heavy 70s, 80s metal, 90s alternative, and 00s rock—forgotten masterpieces, lost classics, and legends that still have something to say.
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Space Rock, Proto-Metal, and One Glorious Album Cover
Hawkwind’s cosmic live blast, Skid Row’s early Gary Moore, Bloodrock’s second chance, and Nick Gilder’s glam-pop gem—your vote picks the winner.
Before “Run-Around,” There Was a Different Blues Traveler
It had virtuosity, songs, Gregg Allman, and no clear commercial lane.
New albums from The Mountain Goats, Shearwater, The Durutti Column, and Trashcan Sinatras, plus a 4CD Cherry Red shoegaze archive.
Plus the Billy Joel proto-metal record that time forgot, Blues Traveler on deck, and Darren Leach just dropped The Wipers’ Is This Real? into the Hopper.
The 1970 Billy Joel Metal Album That Time Forgot
Attila turns a Hammond organ into a proto metal wrecking ball
Why Did Nobody in America Hear Love Outside Andromeda?
Twenty years later, its mix of folk quiet and garage-rock fury still sounds like nothing else.
A Sub Pop Cash-Grab vs. the Metal Album That Broke Billboard History
Green River split into Mudhoney and Pearl Jam, 12 Rods dropped a criminally overlooked debut, Josh Rouse channeled a Nebraska winter, and Skid Row became the first metal album to debut at #1
Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force Turns 41: Why It Still Matters
The record that turned neoclassical shred into an actual genre in 1984.
Ask Any 90s Space‑Rock Obsessive, They’ll Tell You About Replicants
An out‑of‑print covers record that still shapes how we hear Failure and Tool’s universe.
Billy Joel Goes Metal, Springfield Rocks Hard, BÖC Gets Weird
This month’s 70s ballot runs from midnight‑movie riffs to total burnout psych—your pick becomes the episode.