Mikel's Record Bin

sharing bits of my passion for music

Posts tagged with: metal

metal

Split your lungs with blood and thunder – Mastadon

Take Herman Melville's tale about Captain Ahab's maniacal quest for vengeance against the giant white fish; a text that is brutal in tone and structure, and put that to modern...

California Deserves Whatever It Gets – Milk Cult

Elements of rock, jazz, hip-hop, metal, surf rock, and 90s industrial keep you guessing where this quite palatable mix will go next.  The one thing it does stick to is...

Nonagon Infinity Opens the Door

Psychedelic, garage, progressive rock, jazz fusion, and heavy metal all fit as descriptors with this non-stop jam. The album was built from nine songs to be able to be...

Night Verses

The album starts out with a somewhat chaotic-sounding drum fill with background noise and a vocal sample. Then it's straight into this blistering prog-metal riff designed to give you a...

Black Sabbath Riffs and D&D lyrics? Yes, Please!

The Sword’s debut album Age of Winters has to be the direct offspring of Ozzy-era Black Sabbath. Tony Iomi’s guitar riff-age is all over this album....