The long goodbye is a real economic strategy and it has a limit. Extended farewell tours are easy to mock...
Year: 2026
The wider vinyl revival was a return. Here it was continuity. The vinyl revival is usually told as a comeback...
Down-tuned guitars occupy the bass register, and something has to move. In heavy music the bass guitar is competing for...
The genre generates named subdivisions faster than any other, and the reasons are structural. Metal has produced more named subgenres...
The claim is made about once a decade and rests on measuring the wrong thing. Rock is declared dead at...
A committed audience that travels changes what a promoter can charge and what a band can earn. Heavy music sustains...
Mostly arrangement decisions and tone selection. Very little of it is knob-twiddling. The production credit on a heavy record covers...
The pentatonic vocabulary that built hard rock came from somewhere specific, and it is still there. Almost every hard rock...
Some remasters fix genuine problems. Others exist because a catalogue needs a reason to be sold again. Heavy catalogues get...
Backline stacks became staging long before they stopped being necessary. The towering wall of speaker cabinets behind a hard rock...
