Metallo Progressivo Italiano Epico!

DARK QUARTERER – S/T (1987)
Manilla Road a little lacking in thee bombast department for ya? Does listening to Manowar make ya wish they had a tad more flamboyance? Seldom has there been a band as committed to sweeping, breathtakingly EPIC tunesmithing as Piombino, Italy’s Dark Quarterer. Their lengthy, ever-morphing ditties are packed with megalthic riffing, [...]

Rezzz…Erection! Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love to Blog

PENTAGRAM – Human Hurricane [bootleg, 1998]
What immediately intrigued me about this legendary, Arlington, VA combo was an interview I read with them eons ago, regarding vocalist Bobby Liebling’s quirk of carrying his current fave underground rock record to grade school with him— and what a list! Sir Lord Baltimore, Stray, Blue Cheer, Savage Resurrection, [...]