Run! Run! 5-0! 5-0! No, “The Man” hasn’t finally secured that long overdue arrest warrant. Your “Cool Uncle Snowy” has officially become “Old Man Snowy” as he hits the half century mark. So to commemorate this event we decide to forego most of our segments, pour some Lemmys and just rock out! To help celebrate we are joined by old friend and Pure Rock Radio head honcho Rich Embury. Between…

Swedish musical maestro Per Wiberg is a musician’s musician. The multi instrumentalist has plied his trade for a number of legendary outfits over his storied career. Mostly known for his work in Opeth, Mr. Wiberg is a current member of Spiritual Beggars and has hit the road with Candlemass. Not one to rest on his laurels, he’s just released his new solo EP “All Is Well In The Land Of…

Our beloved genre is fuelled by passion. Sometimes it’s this passion that drives fans to do some crazy things. Case in point – “Rag’R” super fan Mitch. Banger TV YouTube series “Heavy Metal Hitchhiker” focus’ on this good hearted gas attendant’s race against time to return a guitar to his heroes and be given a roadie job in return. And of course, it’s comedy of errors and hilarity ensues. We’re…

Break out the heavy artillery! Legendary thrashers Artillery are back with another killer record! Appropriately entitled “X”, this latest platter is the outfit’s 10th (!) album. And these Dutch metallers are showing no signs of letting up. They preserved over personal adversity and Father Time himself. And sounding better than ever! We sat down with axeman/founder Micheal Stutzer and got the scoop on this momentous record. We discussed the writing…

No “Creature Feature?” No pro-blem-o! Here at the RAM offices, we’re veterans of the scene. A.K.A. we’re old. Having gone heavy music full time in ’84, we’ve seen a lot stuff about our beloved genre come and go. While we look back fondly on what was, there is a number of cool stuff from today we’d love to take back to those glory daze. On the flip side, there’s a…

More and more the connection between our beloved genre and the world of professional wrestling is getting stronger and stronger. Ring entrance music, gimmicks and, most importantly, a lot of wrestler’s themselves are real life Metalheads. One of the original crossovers is Nasty Savage maiman “Nasty” Ronnie. In our youth, we started out as Nasty Savage fans. But then we really “marked” out when Mr. Ronnie took his outrageous stage…

Band interviews rule. They’re the bread and butter of this show. There are a number of other facets of our beloved genre that don’t always get their just due. We’ve spoken to a number of these unsung heroes before; producers, authors/writers, record company dudes. Mr. Brad Skibinsky offers up something different. He’s a one man vinyl distributor behind Eye and Ear Control Records. Basically, he’s his own record shop and…

Veteran rockers are getting the best of yesterday and today. Today’s scene is full of young talent. And the old guard is still creating killer tunes. Texas metallers Helstar are a great example of the old guard giving the upstarts a run for their moolah. Helstar have a wicked new record on the racks entitled “Clad In Black”. A cool comp. featuring new singles, cover tunes, and a re issue…

It’s that time again. Generally as a rule, music awards mean two things to heavy music fans – jack and shite’! But we do seem to take notice when it comes to the categories that mean something to us. With the grammys in the can, we can now focus on the upcoming Junos, the Canadian equivalent. Specifically, the Heavy Metal Album of the Year Award. So with that in mind,…

As we began compiling this week’s episode, tragedy struck the Metal world. We lost one of the all time greats in L.G. Petrov, mainman behind the legendary Entombed. So we decided a fitting tribute was in order. To assist us we enlisted the insights of Aaron Price. Mr. Price is a scribe for the new “Fistful Of Metal” magazine. We sat down and discussed all things Entombed: our fave album,…

This global crisis has radically altered a lot of things and the way we go about doing them. For musicians, it’s the lack of live performing and the challenges of trying to jam/write new material. For Season Of Mist recording artists Culted… well, not much has changed. With 3/4 of the line up hailing from Winnipeg, Canada, and the other 1/4 residing in Sweden, the entire band has never been…

First up, “Mount Carcass” is one helluva title! So it should only be fitting that it be the monicker of an awesome album. And.. written and recorded by an awesome band! That’s what we have with death metallers Endseeker’s new Metal Blade release (Apr. 16th). The band hails from Germany but have that Swedish HM2 sound. With all of our recent talk about that particular pedal, it was enough to…

“Never stop learning” isn’t just an old adage. It’s solid advice. When the Relapse debut from Richmond bashers Terminal Bliss came across our desk, it had us scratching our heads. “Brute Err/ata” is a unique monicker. And after cranking the record we knew we had to get the band on the horn and enlighten us. Prepping for our chat, we soon discovered we were going to enjoy a lot about…