Feature: Marty's Musical Meltdown

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• Music Reviews: Voivod, Unexpect, Wolverine, House of Lords, Seven Witches, Black County Communion

  A whole load of heaviness with a touch of pomp this week. The heaviness comes via jazz, the blues and classical to metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Aug 04, 2011

• Interview and Book Review: Eddie Trunk's Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal by Eddie Trunk

  In book review and Q&A, Eddie Trunk explains and expounds on his essential hard rock and metal bands.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jul 28, 2011

• Music/DVD Reviews: Robert Plant's Blue Note, Bai Bang, Outloud, Karma to Burn, Pagan's Mind & Status Quo

  Blues history, three-chord pop and some damn good hard rock fun make up this week’s collection.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jul 26, 2011

• DVD/Music Reviews: Twisted Sister, Deep Purple, Various, Stream of Passion, & Draconian

  This week Marty listens to some old Deep Purple, Twisted Sister and new goth metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jul 15, 2011

• DVD/Music reviews: Deep Purple, Primal Scream, My Dying Bride

  Rock morphed into indie rubbish, a classic band's nadir and some interesting symphonic music.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jul 07, 2011

• DVD/CD Reviews: The Doobie Brothers, Bad Company, The Trews, Anvil

  From Doobies to Anvil, it's got to be this week's "Marty's Musical Meltdown."

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jun 29, 2011

• Music Reviews: David Mark Pierce, David Reese, Jeff Healey Band, ZZ Top, & Saga

  A Saga of a band, some live blues and some hard rock.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jun 19, 2011

• Music Reviews: Seven Thorns, Shakra, Illwill, Arch Enemy, Alestorm, Tyr

  Vikings, pirates, folk and a growling woman of a singer.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jun 11, 2011

• DVD/Music Reviews: Wishbone Ash, Heaven & Hell, Whitesnake, Loaded, and Twisted Sister

  Special additions, a couple of live DVDs, and a rockumentary.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jun 01, 2011

• Music Reviews: Alpha Tiger, Voodoo Circle, Rival Sons, In Legend, & Suidakra

  Volk, piano, power, and Celtic metal this week.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on May 21, 2011

• Music Reviews: Nazareth, After Hours, China, M.ill.ion, Big Life, Pathfinder

  Lashings of quality AOR and a power metal band that needs some work.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on May 12, 2011

• Music Reviews: Leave's Eyes, Midnattsol, Theatre of Tragedy, Within Temptation, & Lyriel

  Call it frock metal, goth or folk metal. All I know is there quite a lot of good music to write about.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on May 06, 2011

• Music Reviews: Eden's Curse, Loaded, The Poodles, Big Trouble, Steve Diggle

  The good, the not so good and the great: care to guess which is which?

  Review by Marty Dodge — on May 03, 2011

• Music Reviews: U.D.O., Uriah Heep, King Kobra, and Bloodbound

  With power metal and a touch of Udo, there is nothing light or fluffy to be found.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Apr 27, 2011

• Music Reviews: Betzefer, Born of Osiris, Mercenary, Vicious Rumors, Amon Amarth

  Epic ranging from the straight head through death to some heavy prog goodness.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Mar 29, 2011

• Music Reviews: Blackmore's Night, The Jeff Healey Band, Symfonia, Son of Seasons, Whitesnake, Various

  The normal variety and an awful cover album.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Mar 24, 2011

• Music CD / DVD Reviews: The New Black, James McClean Band, Katatonia, Power Quest, Allen Lande, Marillion

  Prog heavy and mellow, power metal and some good old hard rock.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Mar 14, 2011

• Music Reviews: American Heritage, Asia, Mr. Big, My Inner Burning, YOSO

  Prog, power, pomp and punishing metal for this week.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Mar 05, 2011

• Music Reviews: Joey Stuckey, Tangent Plane, Onslaught, Havok, Ruled by Reason, and W.A.I.L.

  Heavy sodden doom through thrash to some nice rock.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Feb 24, 2011

• DVD/Music Reviews: Jeff Beck/Les Paul, Brian Robertson, Helstar, Fireforce, and Serenity

  From Jeff Beck to Serenity, variety for the ears in this week's column.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Feb 17, 2011