Cirith Ungol, “Forever Black.” My impulse buy of the week was a 40th anniversary re-release of Metal Blade Records’ first Metal Massacre compilation record, a collection of some of the hottest new metal artists of the year. There’s probably nobody you’ve heard of on the record unless you’re into the Los…

“Round and Round” by RATT; need we say anything more? As our illustrious editor Roman Gokhman alluded to in last week’s column, I’ve got a girlfriend. Sorry ladies, but I’m off the market. It’s become somewhat of a Valentine’s Day tradition for me to openly loathe romance and love…

Marc Bolan of T. Rex, courtesy: Roger Bamber/Shutterstock. For those just joining us, this column has been running for three years. In 2019 and 2020 it was like this; me making it up as I go along, picking a theme of varying topicality and public interest every week to…

As far as we know, Tony Hicks is only having one kind of baby as he passes time at home during the COVID-19 quarantine. Some good really can come from this coronavirus mess. In the middle of boring COVID-19 isolation, I just spent more than an hour with 10…