The Useless Critic 2.0

I will this the best Power Metal Mix ever made or ever recorded.  If any of the UC contribs want to try to make a better one, try try away. UC Readers: What do you think? Labyrinth – The Prophet Nocturnal Rites – Destiny Calls Tad Morose – Another Time Around  Blind Guardian – Battlefield Gamma Ray – Rebellion in Dreamland Into Eternity -- Splintered Visions Nevermore-- The River Dragon Has Come

So this is my attempt to make a Metal Rolodex. I tried to edit the songs, so they would fit together smoothly, but that didn't really work out. It's kind of rough. Also, I thought it would be interesting to use some of my own edited photos, but now it really doesn't look much like a Roladex. So I think I prefer AWM's version of the Rolodex. This was still fun to make though. QATFYG: Who can make a better metal rolodex/mix than me? Please say, "Yes you can."

So Al and I are going to try this out, and Brittany will continue to hate us for metalling with a solid pop blog. I feel like my picks today are very basic, but then again they are the albums that I find myself coming back to. List chronologically: 1. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality (1971) One would be hard pressed to make a poor selection among the first few Sabbath albums. What's amazing is how bluesy some of the early stuff is. The connection between the genres is never so evident than at metal's conception as Sabbath pulls its sound from the American south, sucks it through the Hendrix prism then cranks the dial to 11. In light of this fact, I've decided to post a song that doesn't exemplify this in the least. 2. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak (1976) Sorely underappreciated, save the single 'The Boys are Back in Town', Thin Lizzy's Jailbreak is just a lot of fun. 3. Iron Maiden - Killers (1981) Killers sounds little like later Maiden, but all the songs...

by AWM I'm not trying to say that I know shit about death metal or that you ought to listen to this death metal, but I've had a few drinks and I'm reading to take it down like Chico Dusty. The first thing you need to know is that death metal developed because bands like Possessed started writing thrash metal that was just too fierce to be called thrash. Some people dispute this fact, but I'm not here to win the Pulitzer. Possessed's Seven Churches is some legit ranked shit and albums that are somewhere between death and thrash hold a special place in my heart as a huge thrash fan, but I'm not going to talk about it here today. The first album I'm going to tell you about is over 20 years old and it's still harder than a teenager at a strip club. It's Morbid Angel's Altars of Madness . This is perhaps the only good thing to ever come out of South Florida, music-related or otherwise. It cemented Trey Azagthoth as a metal guitar god, and wa...