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April 29, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Metal on Metal – That’s What I Crave: Ten ‘Gateway Drug’ Metal Albums In My Life

Recently I posted this – about “Ten important hip-hop albums”. I’m going to repeat the opening paragraph from that post: We all know that lists are subjective – that is the point of them. So I’ve decided to do a series of top 10 albums across genres. They’ll appear sporadically. And rather than call them “Top 10” […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged AC/DC, Ace of Spades, Aenima, Angel Dust, Appetite For Destruction, Black Sabbath, Crack The Skye, Cream, Deep Purple, Dirty Deeds Done DIrt Cheap, Faith No More, Guns n Roses, Heavy Metal, Iron Maiden, Lateralus, Led Zeppelin, Mastodon, metal, Metal on Metal, Metal on Metal - That's What I Crave: Ten 'Gateway Drug' Metal Albums In My Life, Motorhead, Paranoid, Ride The Lightning, Ten 'Gateway Drug' Metal Albums In My Life, That's What I Crave, The Number of the Beast, The Razor's Edge, The Real Thing, Tool ·

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March 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Dope Smoker: Marijuana

Dope Smoker Marijauana (Independent/Bandcamp) Just when you thought the album/track Dopesmoker by Sleep was as overt as “Stoner Rock” got, along comes the Welsh band Dope Smoker – that seminal track/album was surely, well, a guiding light – and here’s their fifth album; the title now as blatant as can be, and if you’re somehow […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Alice In Chains, Bandcamp, Black Sabbath, Bleach, Crack The Skye, Dope Smoker, Dopesmoker, Marijuana, Mastodon, Nirvana, Ozzy Osbourne, Post-Rock, Rock, Sabbath, Sleep, Sludge Metal, Smashing Pumpkins, Stoner, Stoner-Rock, Swervedriver, Wales, Welch ·

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