Feature: Marty's Musical Meltdown

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• Music Reviews: Whiskey Falls, The Lost Trailer, Cannon, Stonewall Noise Terror, Hate Gallery, and Untamed

  Fancy a bit of rocky country with your metal? Well Marty does and wants you to hear about it.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Oct 20, 2008

• Music Review: The Reflection, Suspyre, Hoodoo Scoundrels, Impiety, Devolution, Netherbird, Withered, Ehnahre and Spinal Cord

  Experimental death metal to some rather fun power pop...must be Marty's latest batch of reviews.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Oct 06, 2008

• Music Review: Metallica, Dragonforce, Anathema, Khold, Sothis, Harmony, and East of the Wall

  From ambient jazzy metal to the darkest death it's MMM.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Sep 23, 2008

• Music Review: Believer, Metal Church, Todd Grubbs, Winter, Flotsam & Jetsam, Black Stone Cherry, and Quireboys

  Christian death metal, bar-room boogies and some damn fine hard rock.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Sep 13, 2008

• Music Review: Iced Earth, Blackmore's Night, Crimson Glory, Days Between Stations, and Dominoe

  Prog to power through a bit of minstrel music means its that time of the week again.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Sep 04, 2008

• Music Reviews: Extreme, Regurgitator, Todd Rundgren, Delight, Rogue Male, and Control Denied

  Extreme to Control Denied... now with extended review goodness.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Aug 24, 2008

• Music Reviews: Lauren Harris, Southern Gentlemen, Therion, The Wake, Jennie Tebler, Caamora, Marillion and Keaton Simons

  Everything from Marillion thru the might Therion to punk Elvis tracks...must be this week's MMM.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Aug 14, 2008

• Marty's Musical Meltdown DVD Special: Hanoi Rocks' The Nottingham Tapes, Pallas' Moment to Moment, Earache's My Eye, Metalmania: 2007, Gigantour: 2, and Attitude for Destruction

  Death through pagan to glam metal with some cheesy horror along for the ride.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Aug 09, 2008

• Music Reviews: Journey, Kansas, Oxygene8, Sugar's Cane, Three Miles Out, Your Highness Electric, Straight Line Stich, War Tapes, Zebra and Ted Nugent

  Pomp, prog, a little modern rock with a reggae kicker. What else you want?

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Aug 04, 2008

• Finnish Metal, Motley Crue, Farmakon, and Man in the Moon

  Some Finnish metal of all ilks and a return to form for Motley Crue.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jul 27, 2008

• Music Review: Judas Priest, Stone Gods, Pharaoh, Mar de Grises, Daylight Dies, and Dearestazazel

  Synth-pop to symphonic death metal; its got to be another of Marty's review columns.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jul 17, 2008

• Music Reviews: Paganini, Charing Cross, Battleroar, Retribution, Dantesco, Montgomery Gentry, and Ted Nugent

  Billy Ray Cyrus, Ted Nugent and some Battleroar in the same column? Well, of course, what's wrong with that?

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jul 10, 2008

• Marty's Musical Meltdown: Man Raze, Bret Michaels, Believer, Thy Disease, Midnight Syndicate and Eddy Grant...

  Death metal, hard rock, and a bit of reggae...just a typical Marty's Musical Meltdown then.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jun 23, 2008

• Music Reviews: Iron Maiden, Opeth, Puscifer, The Melvins, and Several More

  Back with another large batch of recent releases and the forthcoming.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jun 16, 2008

• Music Review: Archeon, Chainsaw, MSG, Diamond Head, Edenbridge, Brother Firetribe, and a Few More

  A nice collection of stuff ranging from the bleak dark-wave ambiance to the 80s style hard rock.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on May 31, 2008

• Music Review: Def Leppard, Night Ranger, Rush, Soul Doctor, Top Gun Cowboy, and Munk

  Good stuff from Rush, Night Ranger and Def Leppard.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on May 13, 2008

• Music Review: Casket Salesman, Animal Alpha, Hurricane, To-Mera, & Sixx AM

  Hurricane re-releases, Sixx solo, jazz metal, and some indie-tinged rock. What's not to like?

  Review by Marty Dodge — on May 03, 2008

• Music Review: Def Leppard, Diamond Head, NFD, Fish, P.O.D., and Whitesnake

  Cock rock glory, a bit of New Wave Of British Heavy Metal with some goth and classy folk rock.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 27, 2008

• Music Review: Avenging Force, Drive by Argument, Son Lux, Terror, and Michael Bormann

  A bit of a journey this week; from the goth dancefloor, through the CBGB mosh pit to the classy end of hard rock.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 12, 2008

• Music Reviews: Asia, Toto, New Found Glory, The Dreamscapes Project & Kingdom of Sorrow

  Another week and another eclectic collection of rock.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 05, 2008