Most of us during the COVID-19 pandemic have been trying to keep busy. King Diamond is on overdrive during the pandemic. He's working on a double album, The Institute, with his solo band. In addition to that, he's now working on a new album with Mercyful Fate. YouTube show The Electric Theater with
Before there was even a Fright-A-Thon, we had last Halloween. On that hallowed day we had a list of the Top 10 Heavy Metal Halloween songs. It was a fairly standard list, but in the past almost year, I think we can do better. Or at least we can find ten more songs that celebrate the season of
If you know one thing about me, it's that I love horror, and I love Iron Maiden. I love them so much, that for the very first "A-Thon" on THS, I did Iron Maiden. The one-time zombie, now lord of time and space, Eddie, is their mascot. He's made plenty of different appearances over the years. His
I'm a relatively newcomer to the world of King Diamond. Like I've mentioned before I have a pretty good mentor on all things metal and he's shown me some bands that I love just as much as all my favorites. King Diamond is one of those performers that just slipped through the cracks for me. In my
“I have officially retired from the superhero business,” Hans Zimmer told BBC HARDtalk in March 2016, after working with Junkie XL on the score of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Only a year and 10 months later, however, we learned that Zimmer would compose the score to Dark Phoenix, a
I started Judas Priest-A-Thon around a month ago. Over that time, I've written more than 60,000 words on Judas Priest. I reviewed every album, from front to back. Today, after all that work, we're going to rank the albums. It's going to be easy for the ones I don't like as much, and it's going to
If Black Sabbath are the grandfathers of heavy metal, then Judas Priest is the father that outdid them in almost every way. If you ask me to show someone what heavy metal is, I won’t hand them a copy of Paranoid or Master of Reality. I’ll instead hand them a copy of Screaming For Vengeance,
If Black Sabbath are the grandfathers of heavy metal, then Judas Priest is the father that outdid them in almost every way. If you ask me to show someone what heavy metal is, I won’t hand them a copy of Paranoid or Master of Reality. I’ll instead hand them a copy
For better or for worse, the Cold War action-comedy lives! 35 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein have meshed the longstanding Odd Couple road trip with Iron Curtain hijinks and modern action sensibilities for a surprisingly solid but conceptually
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia gives us a true puppetmistress in the form of Boraqchin in Ep. 11 "An Ungraceful Stone". This episode has shown her to be a master planner and manipulator, making her quite the political genius. However, this episode also reveals that the people she's puppeting don't
Have you ever considered the similarities between the landmark 1978 slasher Halloween and 1982’s First Blood? In both films, a man of few words arrives in a small town that treats him like the bogeyman, and when circumstances escalate to the point of murder, a specialist who’s highly familiar
