Category Archives: Throwback Thursdays

Throwback Thursdays: Sanctuary Circa 1987 With Refuge Denied

Welp….now that Nevermore is done, er, going through an extended line-up change, and Sanctuary seems to have new life, it’s time for something special and NW centric. Every Thursday we go back in time. But now it’s time to go … Read the rest of this entry

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Throwback Thursdays: Warrant’s Ill-timed 1992 Record Dog Eat Dog

Yep, I did it. I’m throwing up a post about Warrant. So, word on the street, and by street I mean the hair metal shit shoots I have with Mike, is that this album is considered by many high brow … Read the rest of this entry

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Throwback Thursdays: 1993′s Heartwork: A Betrayal of Goregrind Or The Genesis Of Melodic Death?

Carcass may be the only band (if my nonexistent research is correct, and I have no reason to believe that it isn’t) that can claim to have founded two prominent metal sub-genres. Not only were these guys worshiped by the … Read the rest of this entry

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Throwback Thursdays: Metal Church’s The Human Factor (1991)

How can you beat 1991 in the Northwest? The Huskies are winning a National Championship and Metal Church is putting out blistering heavy metal records to critical acclaim. I’ve always appreciated Anthrax but even some of the band’s most successful … Read the rest of this entry

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Throwback Thursdays: U.D.O.’s 1997 Opus “Solid” Is, Uh, SOLID!

As a child of 90′s action and sci fi flicks, it’s pretty dang easy to get WAY too into old metal records. Sometimes, I feel like my music and movie taste is one big temporal illusion with how badass I … Read the rest of this entry

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Throwback Thursdays: Cacophony 1987′s “Speed Metal Symphony”

We are slowly realizing that we need some sort of exoskeleton to hold together this rhetorical Frankenstein of a blog. Certainly depending on the time (and, um, state of mind) I love delving deep into death, black, grind, sludge, stoner, … Read the rest of this entry

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Throwback Thursdays: WASP and Pantera Circa 1985

I’m here, Huckleberry. Pull up a cheh’uh. If this throwback from Blackie Lawless and the boys from WASP doesn’t make you want to drink whiskey, brandish firearms, gamble –with your life as well as with your money– and make other … Read the rest of this entry

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Throwback Thursdays: Dave Mustaine Skydiving On MTV Circa 1991

Remember when MTV used to play music? ..nay, even featured actual musicians at least doing cool shit? Well those days are long gone, and not because those corporate hack jobs are to blame. Free market capitalism, my dudes and duddettes! … Read the rest of this entry

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Throwback Thursdays: Queensryche circa 1984

Queensryche – Queen of the Reich (Live in Tokyo 1984) Every Thursday, I’ll try to dig up a clip, video or interview that firmly plants you in the passengers seat of the time machine. Through this short snippet of info, … Read the rest of this entry

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