Tag: Heavy Metal
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The Singer Who Came for One Night and Never Left
In 1996, Joacim Cans stepped in to sing three songs with HammerFall for one night. By the end of the day, he was officially in the band.
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Anthrax — The Album That Took Ten Years… But Didn’t
Ten years separated Anthrax’s For All Kings and Cursum Perficio. But the new album did not actually take a decade to make. The real story is more complicated.
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THE VOICE THAT OUTLIVED THE MAN
In “Defender,” Orson Welles plays an absent father whose words remain for his son. Years later, fiction and reality would collide in a way no one could have planned.
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Running Wild: The Accident That Gave Heavy Metal Its Pirates
Running Wild’s pirate identity was not born in a marketing meeting. According to Rock ’n’ Rolf, it began with a riff, a Pirates trailer on television and the song “Under Jolly Roger.”
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BLACK SABBATH: THREE NOTES THAT CHANGED HEAVY METAL
Three notes. A midnight apparition. And a sound that would become inseparable from heavy metal. In 1970, Black Sabbath opened their debut album with a song unlike almost anything that had come before it. But the story behind “Black Sabbath” is even darker — and one of metal’s most famous legends isn’t quite what it…
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Painkiller: The Drum Intro That Announced a New Era
One drum intro. No guitars. No vocals. In 1990, Judas Priest opened Painkiller with a statement that sounded like a machine coming to life. The man behind it was Scott Travis — the band’s new drummer — and the intro was born far more organically than its precision suggests. A NEW DRUMMER. Scott Travis joined…
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Ace of Spades: The Riff That Almost Didn’t Exist
The story behind the Motörhead classic — and how one of rock’s most recognizable riffs wasn’t even there when the song began.
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The Trooper: The Charge Behind Iron Maiden’s Classic
In 1983, Iron Maiden turned one of the most infamous military disasters of the Crimean War into one of heavy metal’s most enduring songs. The Trooper throws the listener into the chaos of a cavalry charge — not from the perspective of a general watching from safety, but from that of a soldier riding directly…