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Category Archives: Tuesday Time Machine
TUESDAY TIME MACHINE: OZZY OSBOURNE – THE ULTIMATE SIN (1986)
So, the late 80s were a dark time for much of mainstream metal. Anybody who wanted to stay relevant in terms of record sales indulged in hair metal aesthetics or, at least, in its inescapable androgynous fashion. There’s Judas Priest‘s … Read the rest of this entry →
TUESDAY TIME MACHINE: DECAPITATED – WINDS OF CREATION (2000)
Yeah, so, I know I broke my unwritten rule of not covering any records produced after 1999 but this is Choose Day Chime Machine, ok? So, I choose what I want until you chime the fuck in. This is not … Read the rest of this entry →
TUESDAY TIME MACHINE: NOCTURNUS – THE KEY (1990)
Aside from being “that keyboard band” among Florida’s arsenal of 90s death metal, Nocturnus was also pretty far outside the box thematically. It was all about quantum physics, time travel, intergalactic conquests, all garnished nicely with a pentagram in the … Read the rest of this entry →
TUESDAY TIME MACHINE: MOTORHEAD – 1916 (1991)
Here’s the thing. Everyone remembers the 90s, so stop asking like it’s some deep one hand clapping rhetorical question, ok? Unfortunately, most people don’t remember how many fantastic metal records hit the shelves in the early 90s. This is of … Read the rest of this entry →
TUESDAY TIME MACHINE: ABSU – THE SUN OF TIPHARETH (1995)
The Texas horde led by the artistically restless Proscriptor popped up on most people’s watch list with 2001′s Tara. Absu had arrived with an undeniable conviction with that great record. Yet the band had been active for about a decade, taking a … Read the rest of this entry →
TUESDAY TIME MACHINE: DEMOLITION HAMMER – EPIDEMIC OF VIOLENCE (1992)
Ok, this had to be done. It’s just such a no-brainer, that I almost felt like I would be cheating by featuring New York’s favorite brain-bashing crew. Despite Steve Reynolds uncanny vocal resemblance to Kreator‘s Mille Petrozza, Demolition Hammer‘s second effort … Read the rest of this entry →
TUESDAY TIME MACHINE: GUN – GUN (1968)
Despite the extensive lip service that’s been paid to them in recent years, Blue Cheer was just a boorish experiment in the proto-heavy metal of the 1960s. Sure, they were the heaviest band of the black and white era but as the hot-button squabling … Read the rest of this entry →
TUESDAY TIME MACHINE: JUDAS PRIEST – SIN AFTER SIN (1977)
The musical arsenal of the mighty Priest is full of dark horse favorites, especially those albums and songs that weren’t meant to be commercial efforts and predate the band’s SKYNET-esque self-awareness. Yet, if we ignore everything after 1980 the way prog inclined fans … Read the rest of this entry →
TUESDAY TIME MACHINE: DIO – LOCK UP THE WOLVES (1990)
Fans of 80s metal know what it’s like not to be taken seriously. Perhaps through a fault that is by and large theirs, it’s assumed by outsiders that outrageous lyrics and album covers somehow strip music of any artistic conviction or capacity for … Read the rest of this entry →
TUESDAY TIME MACHINE: ANNIHILATOR – NEVER, NEVERLAND (1990)
In the world of often overlooked thrash bands, it would infair to file Canada’s Annihilator under the “unlucky” tab. Aside from the band’s ever revolving lineup and allegedly mercurial personality dynamics, they simply fell short in the vocal department far … Read the rest of this entry →
TUESDAY TIME MACHINE: DISMEMBER – LIKE AN EVER FLOWING STREAM (1991)
I’ve long sought an excuse to feature Dismember. However, being an 80s baby who simply feigns battle-scarred wisdom on a weekly basis, I just am not exactly sure to what extent they were actually influential. By the time they were on their second album, the fan favorite Indecent and Obscene, … Read the rest of this entry →
TUESDAY TIME MACHINE: KING DIAMOND – ABIGAIL (1987)
It’s hard to believe that something as seminal as Abigail is now 25 years old. After the 1985 breakup of Mercyful Fate, the King founded this solo project to pour his devious soul into. It may often seem that our … Read the rest of this entry →
TUESDAY TIME MACHINE: CANDLEMASS – TALES OF CREATION (1989)
For the longest time, I had a snobby, bourgeoisie attitude towards doom metal. If it wasn’t of the reefer-friendly, Sabbath worship variety, it just wasn’t worth wasting already scarce listening time on it. Doom just wasn’t interesting if you gave … Read the rest of this entry →
TUESDAY TIME MACHINE: VADER – BLACK TO THE BLIND (1997)
There are many of the stubborn opinion that Slayer was the end all of streamlined aggression and speed picking. So caught up are we, especially in our formative years, with Slayer‘s undeniable command of imagery that we don’t often understand … Read the rest of this entry →
TUESDAY TIME MACHINE: OVERKILL – NECROSHINE (1999)
Often cited as having perfected what Exhorder invented, Pantera inspired a lot of experimentation among bands of different genres, later giving birth to the subgenre whose vangaurd includes Lamb of God and Gojira. Late 90s attempts to capitalize on Pantera‘s newly … Read the rest of this entry →
**WEDNESDAY** TIME MACHINE: EDGE OF SANITY – CRIMSON (1996)
Remember when Opeth was still a metal band? Well, though they’re still creating works of musical merit, the extreme metal roots have largely departed. Trends in progressive metal have in turn gone the way of micromanagement; a band’s progressiveness no longer defining … Read the rest of this entry →
Tuesday Time Machine: Deep Purple – Fireball (1971)
Jon Lord left us yesterday. The man whose fingers plucked away at the defining aesthetic of Deep Purple for most of the band’s career (all of its meaningful parts anyway) was also deeply connected to the genesis of heavy metal. … Read the rest of this entry →
Tuesday Time Machine: WASP – The Headless Children (1989)
The career of WASP is a painfully duplicitous one but, if one may be totally honest, it’s hard not to enjoy the silly, perverted early 80s WASP even when appreciating the later albums on the more lofty basis of being legitimate pieces of work. As … Read the rest of this entry →
Tuesday Time Machine: Sodom – Persecution Mania (1987)
Far too much of this site is devoted to the worship and rehashing of classic thrash metal, which leaves only one logical remedy: moar thrash. Now, I’ll admit I have neglected rethrash undeservingly; there are some incredible records among the … Read the rest of this entry →
Tuesday Time Machine: Sacramentum – Far Away From The Sun (1996)
The Swedish melodic black/death metal movement in the mid-90s is plagued by one persistent and misguided analytical approach: the all too obvious comparison of every band in the scene to Dissection. There is a forgivable reason for this. In a … Read the rest of this entry →