Category: Friday Metal

I’ve become kind of obsessed with this band and have been methodically collecting their back catalogue. This is from their fourth, self-titled album, which came out in 1992.

Looking forward to the new album from these guys next month. 2009’s Existence Is Futile was one of the best metal albums that came out that year.

Really cool video:

This is from Digital Veil, one of my favorite metal albums of the year so far.

I don’t know if it’s really accurate to call King’s X “metal,” but “groove-oriented, soulful, progressive hard rock” isn’t quite as pithy. Anyway, this is from their excellent 1989 album Gretchen Goes to Nebraska. They’re a criminally under-appreciated band, probably because they not only straddle genres, but also straddled the Christian-secular music divide for much of their career.

This sounds like something Faith No More could’ve written, which is high praise in my book.

Killer traditionalist heavy metal from my home state of Pennsylvania!

From their awesome 1993 debut album Focus.

I’m on vacation and traveling with my family, so blogging will be lighter than usual for the next week or so.

No-frills, traditional heavy metal. Good stuff.