By Metal Dave If you wore a Sepultura patch in San Antonio during the early 1990s, you and your leather high-tops surely got bruised slamming to Alienation, Judge Mental and Scythe. As the go-to local opening acts for Anthrax, Deicide, Overkill and Suicidal Tendencies, the Alamo City’s Big Three were a whiplash squad of mortar-blast drums, blinding guitar […]
Archive for October, 2015
Review: Under No One, ‘Bullhorns & Politics’
Posted: 30th October 2015 by admin in ReviewsTags: Alienation, Bullhorns & Politics, Judge Mental, scythe, Under No One
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Review: Michael Monroe, ‘Blackout States’
Posted: 17th October 2015 by admin in ReviewsTags: Blackout States, dregen, ginger wildheart, hanoi rocks, Horns and Halos, michael monroe, Sensory Overdrive
By Metal Dave With due respect to Hanoi Rocks, Michael Monroe’s best run is now. Fightin’ words, perhaps, but the truth is worth the risk. On a raucous roll since 2011’s “Sensory Overdrive” and its 2013 follow-up, “Horns and Halos,” the iconic glam-punk singer is back with “Blackout States,” the third in a near-flawless trifecta of […]
Review: Broken Teeth, ‘Bulldozer’
Posted: 1st October 2015 by admin in ReviewsTags: ac/dc, broken teeth, jason mcmaster
By Metal Dave Broken Teeth arrived in 1999 as the best AC/DC sound-alike since “Powerage” and “Let There Be Rock.” Over multiple albums and various lineup changes (not the least of which was necessitated by the untimely passing of bassist Travis Weiss), the Austin, TX band has since spiked its bad-boy boogie with the speedier, […]