Heavy Metal

  • ROCKTOBER: Halloween Special

    Finishing up the ROCTOBER 2025 sessions with a Halloween Special.

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  • “Best I Can” is a song by American band Queensrÿche appearing on their 1990 album Empire. The song was released as the third single from the album. In a November 2010 interview with Get Ready To Rock, front man Geoff Tate said of this uptempo track: “It was a situation of us writing about handicapped

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  • Heavy Metal Meets Humanitarianism In the 1980s, heavy metal dominated the music scene, filling arenas with roaring crowds and electrifying performances. Yet, despite its popularity, the genre was often stigmatized as reckless, dangerous, and indifferent to social issues. Meanwhile, the world was captivated by charity supergroups like Band Aid and USA for Africa, who used

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  • Eulogy for Ozzy Osbourne Ladies and gentlemen, Today, we gather not just to mourn a man, but to celebrate a force of nature — someone whose voice, spirit, and story shaped the very soul of rock and roll. John Michael “Ozzy” Osbourne, the Prince of Darkness, has left the stage — but the echoes of

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  • It is 1986 you get ready for your weekly dose of Heavy Metal on Sky’s Monsters of Rock. presented by Mick Wall. You hear the opening theme ” Ice 9″ by Joe Satriani from his Epic album “Surfing with the Alien” You sit back relax and get ready for an onslaught of Rock and Metal.

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  • What if the Nazis would have won? You might be wondering what is the connection between the music scale picture above and the question, “What if the Nazis had won?” Firstly, let me explain what type of rhythmic pattern it is. It is an example of a rhythmic pattern used in heavy metal. The upper

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  • You probably think this is going to be about Finland’s finest ,Lordi, but you’d be wrong. It is going to be Denmark’s mega band ‘Mabel’ , ok mega band might be a bit of an exaggeration. Mabel entered the Eurovision in 1978,in Paris, with the song ‘Boom Boom’ where they received a well deserved 13

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  • I know we all love Christmas songs, but every now and then we just get too much Pipes of Peace, Silent Night, and Do they Know it’s Christmas time. So today’s episode of a slightly different Christmas, I give you Dokken and Santa Claus is coming to town

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  • I know we all love Christmas songs, but every now and then we just get too much Last Christmas, All I want for Christmas, Christmas time mistletoe and wine. So this year I will introduce a few alternative crackers for Christmas, Starting of with Dio and Tommy Iommi’s version of God Rest ye Merry Gentlemen.

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  • “Best of Both Worlds” is a song by Van Halen, released in 1986 on their album 5150, the first album featuring Sammy Hagar as the band’s lead vocalist after the departure of David Lee Roth. The song became a defining track of the “Van Hagar” era, characterized by a shift in the band’s musical direction

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