Tag: tribute

  • Martin Eric Ain, 1967 – 2017

    Martin Eric Ain, 1967 – 2017

    “The sands of time will never run For an immortal dead man” Celtic Frost – “Visions Of Mortality” Hellbound mourns the sudden passing of Martin Eric Ain, legendary bass player for the genre-birthing Swiss bands Hellhammer and Celtic Frost. Born Martin Stricker, Ain, would form his first band Shizo out of the same small Swiss…

  • Various Artists – Meantime [Redux]

    Various Artists – Meantime [Redux]

    Oh, Helmet! Now, I’m not talking about anything sexual. Just the legendary NY band. If I were a real journalist I’d go into the influence Helmet have had on the hard music scene, naming specific bands or scenes or whatever but Helmet’s reputation speaks for itself. Well, to a point. Strap It On, Meantime, Betty…

  • There’s a whole whack of mid-week madness coming up on my calendar…

    If Thursday is the new Friday, does that make Wednesday the new Thursday? Well, I hope so, cuz I’ve got a coupla Wild Wednesdays coming up next month. The summer concert season goes out with a bang for yours truly, but man, couldn’t they have put one of these gigs on a weekend?

  • Various Artists:Snakebites – The Music of Whitesnake

    Every cover is so irritatingly faithful to the original version it’s aping –right down to sounding overproduced- that it’s painful. But try as they might, none of the covering vocalists here appear to possess an nth of the swagger and soul that Mr. Coverdale conveyed in his prime (even if he did nick it from…