I know there are a lot of people who don’t like blogs or reviews that contain a heavy dose of the writer’s personal experience. I get it – sometimes you just want the information. But Life In The Vinyl Lane is as much about my relationship to music as it is about the music itself. […]
Tag: Metal
Mayhem – “Dawn Of The Black Hearts” (1995 / 2023)
TRIGGER WARNING! Some parts of the Mayhem story are just plain awful. So here’s your chance to opt out. The story of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem has been widely told, including being turned into a film called Lords of Chaos (starring Macaulay Culkin’s brother Rory, and Val Kilmer’s son Jack). The film was […]
Black Sabbath – “Death Riders – Their Satanic Majesties Return” (1980)
For whatever reason I came back from New York City with a couple of unofficial Black Sabbath records. It’s not that I dislike Sabbath – in fact I like them very much. But I’m far from being a superfan, and most of my listening is confined to their first two albums. But that didn’t stop […]
Punk Compilations from Death Is Not The End (2025)
I love me a good regional comp, all the more so if it feels like there’s a strong disconnect between the genre and location, the sense that just performing this type of music in a specific time and place was a transgressive, or even dangerous, act. Punk is certainly a genre that has rankled the […]
Plaguefever – “Crude Implements” (2021)
“I got a Plaguefever, and the only prescription is more Crude Implements.“— Producer Bruce Dickinson Plaguefever are a metal band from Virginia. Sometime earlier this year one of the band members found his way to Iceland and dropped off a few copies of their 2021 record Crude Implements at Lucky Records, one of which then […]