We've already done 40 other Halloween Heavy Metal tracks in past editions of Fright-A-Thon. But you know what? Halloween and heavy metal music go together. They both celebrate the darker side of life (and death). They also kick a whole hell of a lot of ass. If this list looks strange and doesn't
The Texas-based thrash metal band Power Trip could have disbanded after their lead singer Riley Gale, suddenly and tragically passed away in August 2020. They went on a bit of a hiatus, but came back in 2023 with a new singer, Seth Gilmore. Now, in 2024, they're embarking on a string of shows
Iron Maiden are, depending on who you ask, one of, if not the greatest heavy metal band in history. They've been around for over 40 years at this point. In those 40 years, they've toured extensively. So you might wonder, what songs have they actually not played live? We have a list of their
It's past Labor Day, which means it's high time to start cranking some Halloween music. If you're not into hearing "The Monster Mash" 150 times this Halloween season (4 or 5 is good with me), then you'll need something with a little more kick. Something that'll bring your whole body to a fervor.
Helloween's Pumpkins United World Tour was one of those things in metal, that fans thought would never happen. It would surely be a miracle for the band to tour with Michael Kiske and Kai Hansen once again. Well that miracle happened, so we're on to the next one. A new studio album titled Helloween
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 you've never heard of the metal monarch, King Diamond, shame on you. People like to think of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath as the originators of the genre. King Diamond isn't quite that old in his tenure at the top of the heavy metal hierarchy, but he's almost as influential. As the lead
As I sit typing this, Iron Maiden is currently embarking on their Legacy of the Beast tour. Legacy of the Beast is Iron Maiden’s mobile game. If you didn’t know, Iron Maiden rule the world. So because their Los Angeles show is coming up; what better time to write a review of all sixteen
The trailer for A24's The Drama does a great job of keeping things intentionally vague. We meet Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya), a couple about to get married who seem like they know everything about each other… until they very clearly don’t. One drunken night at dinner with
The last few episodes of HBO's The Pitt have been a whirlwind of activity. Though not covered here, the show ran the gamut from staff assaults to ICE's appearance. The latter was a prescient addition to the storyline given the current climate in America, and something the show portrayed correctly.
When Margaret Atwood returned to Gilead almost 35 years later, with her book The Testaments, the sequel to her seminal The Handmaid’s Tale, they said she could never match its genius. The story more than matched her 1985 dystopian classic, winning the 2019 Booker Prize, feeling horrifically timely