Opinion
No diplomacy. No hedge. Just what I think. This is the bar after a show ; beer in hand, volume still ringing in your ears, saying exactly what you mean.
Past opinions
Opinion Someone is uploading fake songs to dead bands' pages
Scammers use AI tools and a distribution loophole to attach fake tracks to the streaming profiles of dormant bands, and collect the royalties. I know because I fell for one: a cheap electronic loop posing as the first new Arcturus music in a decade. A reader caught it within hours. Here is how the scam works, and why your follow button is part of the problem.
17 October 2026
Opinion A man died in Plovdiv. The tabloids blamed the t-shirts
Five teenagers stand charged with beating a man to death in Bulgaria. Four wore metal shirts to their hearing, and a tabloid headline did the rest: 'Satanic black metal brings together teenage killers.' Investigators have established no link to music at all. We watched this exact film in 1985. It was wrong then too.
16 August 2026
Opinion Moonspell called it their new Irreligious. The scoreboard disagrees
Blabbermouth gave Far From God a 90 and called it one of Moonspell's most significant statements. The listeners on Album of the Year settled on 62. That gap is not about the music. It is about a band grading its own homework against its masterpiece.
26 July 2026
Opinion AC/DC at Oakland 1979. With Bon Scott, this is what a rock band looks like.
I have always been an AC/DC fan. The 1979 Oakland Coliseum performance of Highway to Hell is the thirty-three-minute proof. Bon Scott on vocals, the Young brothers in their prime, less than a year before Bon would be gone. Forty-six years later, nobody has written a better three-chord rock song.
10 May 2026
Opinion UFO. The Band That Time Forgot.
They influenced Tom Morello, Slash, Stone Gossard and Steve Harris. They made one of the greatest live albums in rock. And nobody talks about UFO anymore. That's a crime.
25 April 2026
Opinion Support Acts Deserve Better Sound. Always.
The headliner sounds like god and the support sounds like a tin bucket. That's a choice, not a budget. And it's time we stopped pretending otherwise.
9 April 2026
Opinion This Week in Metal: April 7-13, 1987
Helloween dropped Future World, Headbangers Ball was days away, and a kid in Belgium packed his cassettes for university.
6 April 2026
Opinion 7 Forgotten Metal Bands From the 1980s
Seven 80s metal bands that had the riffs, the attitude, and the talent. They just didn't have the timing. Or the MTV budget.
17 December 2025
Opinion The Strange Case of Draugveil
Black metal, Reddit drama, and a band nobody can agree on. The internet did its thing again. Here's why none of it matters.
13 July 2025