Metal Music
Minor Key Music 83: Uriah Heep – Easy Livin’
Uriah Heep, I had always assumed, was one of those bands like Molly Hatchet. You know the bands I’m talking about, the ones whose music is light years behind the potential of their album covers. Unlike the bulk of Molly Hatchet’s oeuvre, today’s song kicks a considerable amount of ass: https://www.isleyunruh.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Uriah-Heep-Easy-Living.mp3 Which is a relief,…
Read MoreEven More Signs That the Underground Metal Band You Are Listening to Might be Racist
Heavy metal has always been just a little too white for it to ever claim any level of racial enlightenment. And, when you take a genre that is already just a tiny step down from “new country” when it comes to concert-goer diversity, and ease it into the cesspool of burgeoning nationalist movements that have…
Read MoreMemes I Missed 20: Smudge the Cat Trolls Sensitive Underground Metal Fans
I’m a little further behind the times with this post than usual on the whole “woman yells at a cat” thing, but a while back I made a bunch of metal related variations, and today I’ve finally cobbled them together into a post. I haven’t seen one of these for a while, but, for my…
Read MoreTop 5 Best Bands with a “Goat” in their Name
There are a lot of things black metal bands love: monochromatic color schemes, renaissance fair cosplay, problematic immigration views…and an almost fanatical devotion to J. R. R. Tolkien. However, one thing all black metal fans (and all metal fans in general) can agree on is that goats are fucking sweet. I mean, sure, goats are…
Read MoreThe Top 5 Most Homoerotic NSBM Album Covers
The genre of Heavy Metal is absolutely no stranger to homoerotic album covers. For every album cover featuring an un-erotically posed dragon or wizard, there are at least TWO covers featuring oiled-up, ridiculously over-muscled barbarian dudes, standing there, “sword” out, nuts tooched, and completely overshadowing any half-clothed women that might be wrapped around their legs…
Read MoreBest Metal Albums of 2018
Looking over the past few years of these “best of” posts, I’ve noticed that after my top 5, I usually end up with more and more reservations about the albums I call the “best” of the year. There are plenty of great albums released each year that are worth listening to, but the ones I…
Read MoreMailbag Monday 84
Want to have your pressing questions answered by Isley Unruh himself? Send all queries HERE, and I will get to them as soon as I can on a future Mailbag Monday! This month on Mailbag Monday, we have A.J. and Laura–boldly taking on the complex “Greta Van Fleet question”: “What is the deal with Greta Van…
Read MoreMemes I Missed 19: Underground Metal Memes 2
While cleaning up my computer desktop recently (ok, fine, I was just doing my usual: drag and dropping everything into an “other” folder) I came across a few random metal memes that I made for random metal reasons over the last year. Add in a couple of YouTube videos that I never ended up posting…
Read MoreThe Top 5 Best Black Metal Cover-photo Cock Shots
Black metal is a grim, hateful genre of music where misanthropy is celebrated above all else. In that spirit, today’s post will examine those rarefied black metal bands who have committed to perpetrating that grimmest and most misanthropic of all acts: sending an unsolicited dick-pic to their entire fan-base. Which, when I put it that…
Read MoreTop Ten Best Classic Black Metal Logos
After a carefully (and repeatedly) xeroxed black and white photo of yourself wearing a robe in the snow, a proper logo is one of the most important elements in any black metal band’s packaging. The logo will instantly identify your music as, not only black metal, but also, if it is good enough, as black…
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