…feature new remastering from the original analog tapes and include two bonus tracks, “Some Kind of Woman” and “Black Moon”.
After years of playing a dispiriting game of musical chairs with various lead singers during the early ’80s, Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi finally stumbled upon a dependable frontman when he admitted relative unknown Tony Martin into the fold, thereby initiating the original heavy metal band’s long awaited return to respectability — if not chart-topping success. Martin joined the oft-interrupted sessions for what would become 1987’s The Eternal Idol album already in progress, stepping in for an unreliable Ray Gillen when the latter moved on to Jake E. Lee’s Badlands, and helping Iommi rescue an astonishingly….
Category: hard rock/heavy metal
Things have never been easy for Metallica’s 1996 album Load, a multiplatinum record nobody ever admits to liking, especially the band’s most avid fans. In early 1995, Metallica had a “good problem”: how to follow up The Black Album, the 1991 smash that turned them from metal heroes into global rock stars. It wasn’t an easy question. Featuring their megahit “Enter Sandman,” The Black Album was Nineties metal’s Dark Side of the Moon, the moment when an already stadium-filling band became a household name. Then, in the middle of the three-year tour to support the incredibly popular record, grunge became the lingua franca of mainstream rock, forcing Metallica to reconsider their place in music.
The answer? Lean into the issue by cutting off…