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CHAOS A.D. (ROADRUNNER, 1993) Refuse/Resist is the very first track from Sepultura’s brilliant album, Chaos A.D. The song was also available as a single. Oh, there’s an official video for it too. It’s one of the band’s best-known songs and remains a concert staple to this day. Even though Arise is my favorite Sepultura album, …
CHAOS A.D. (ROADRUNNER, 1993) Chaos A.D. from Sepultura is considered as one of their best records — and with their follow up album, Roots, a true landmarks in heavy metal. The album is filled with killer tunes but what I personally love, as much as the music itself, is the album artwork by Michael Whelan! …
ACTIVE: 1984– Sepultura is a thrash metal band from Brazil and they’ve been around for +40 years. The 1st album I heard from them was Beneath the Remains, released in 1989. This too was introduced to me by my crew mate Tango. But the time I actually heard it must have been late 1990 or …
ACTIVE: 1972– Twisted Sister is a band from the States. They had a long career from the early 70’s to the late 90’s, then they more or less withdrew from the spotlight. Most people my age are very familiar with their 1984 release Stay Hungry, since both I Wanna Rock and We’re Not Gonna Take …
WARPATH (METAL BLADE, 1997) Nonexistence is a song from Warpath, Six Feet Under’s 2nd album. It’s also my favorite from the band. The track is, to me, a perfect death metal song: a mid-tempo, low-tuned, not too long, with straightforward riffing and ultra-low growls holding it all together. I enjoy death metal across different tempos, …
ACTIVE: 1993– At first Six Feet Under was a side project of Cannibal Corpse vocalist Chris Barnes. It became a full-time band for him after he was fired from the ‘main’ band in 1995. While early Cannibal Corpse was known for its fast and technical death metal, Six Feet Under leans toward mid-tempo death metal …
ACTIVE: 2002– Notkea Rotta. What can I say… they are another Finnish rap group. Talented, funny and performing kind of fiction stories about the hood life of East Helsinki. Topics include: drugs, cops, hustling… well, you know, thug life in general. But this ain’t gangsta rap — the guys behind it are far from it. …
LICK IT UP (MERCURY, 1983) Lick It Up is the 3rd song on the KISS album of the same name, released in 1983. I heard it the following year, and it’s most likely the very first KISS song I clearly remember. At the age of 9 or 10, I liked only this track — the …
ACTIVE: 1988– Cannibal Corpse. That’s a name you’ve probably heard even if death metal ain’t your cup of tea. They are a legendary band from the States, known for fast and technical death metal. Cannibal Corpse was originally fronted by Chris Barnes, a vocalist whose growls were among the lowest you could hear at that …
HOITOVIRHE (SPINEFARM, 2004) Teurastaja is most likely the best-known song by Turmion Kätilöt. It has 15 million plays on Spotify (by the end of 2025) — and for a reason. It’s a great tune, and also the opening track of their debut album Hoitovirhe. When I first heard it, the song — and the whole …