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January 21, 2022 by Simon Sweetman

In Praise of Thrash

I’ve started listening to a lot of Thrash. I don’t usually listen to a lot of Thrash. Not since I was about 15 or 16. But, ever since then, it has been a component of my listening. I have my favourites. Metallica’s Ride The Lightning, Slayer’s Reign In Blood, the first few Megadeth albums…early Anthrax, […]
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October 21, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

How Heavy Is Your Metal?

For some The Beatles’ Helter Skelter is the start of heavy metal. For others it’s that overt reference – “heavy metal thunder” from Born To Be Wild by Steppenwolf. Do you go back to what The Who was doing or Billy Burnette or Blue Cheer – or do you start with Black Sabbath. Are they the starting point or is it The Jimi Hendrix Experience? Was it Led […]
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September 4, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Metallica & San Francisco Symphony: S&M2

Metallica & San Francisco Symphony S&M2 Rhino/Blackened Recordings School was a while ago and thinking about it now it had its moments. So I think I will go to the Reunion – why not? I mean it might bring back some of those happy memories. Memories of not much happening at all. And new visions of […]
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September 3, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 228: Ben Mulchin (Valhalla)

Welcome to episode 228 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify […]
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February 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 208: Charlie Wallace (Guitar Mastery Method)

Welcome to episode 208 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T and Yeastie Boys . Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your […]
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August 2, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 31 – Sustained Creepy Moods…

I like movie soundtracks – score. I like ambient music. I like heavy metal. I particularly love when two or three of those things can come together to create a sinister, creeping – creepy – mood. A sustained sinister creeping – creepy – mood, even. So I wanted to explore that today via five favourites. Five Songs For Friday has […]
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August 1, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Sweetman Podcast # 178: Steve Francis (Bulletbelt)   

Welcome to episode 178 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat.  Now – as you probably know, as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library. Steve Francis is the drummer and driving force behind […]
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December 16, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The 1001 Albums Challenge # 111: Napalm Death – “Scum”

I’ve been aware of Napalm Death for some time but I’ve done very little listening; I regret not going to see the band when they played here a few years back…I saw a few years, it was probably around a decade now…but yeah…one of those names to tick off an imaginary list or something… I […]
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February 13, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Bashing Out: My Top 10 ‘Drum’ Albums

I was hooked on Modern Drummer magazine as a teen. And I always liked reading the record reviews at the back of the Modern Drummer, they focused on drums and ‘drum’ albums or at least highlighted the drums and drumming on pop and rock records when they reviewed them. They might write-up a pop album because of […]
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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” […]
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February 1, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Black Sabbath’s Paranoid and The Blueprint for Heavy Metal: How Black Is Your Sabbath?

The first thing I knew about Black Sabbath was the song Paranoid; as an avid fan of the Tour Of Duty soundtrack albums. I wasn’t sure if I liked the song or not – the voice was weird, the riff was relentless, but I did like the line about being called insane for frowning all […]
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September 4, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 638

Orb, Migration [Single] (2015) I loved seeing King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard on a recent trip to Australia and a big part of the treat of that was seeing another Victorian band, Orb – not The Orb – and nor do they sound at all like that other (great) band, The Orb. Instead this […]
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