Feature: Marty's Musical Meltdown

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• Music Review: Burn Halo, Supagroup, SOS, and Ted Nugent

  A bunch of da Nuge re-issues, a Supagroup and a Burn Halo for good measure... send out an SOS?

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jan 29, 2009

• Music Review: Exciter, Iommi, Lethargy, Carbon 9, and Connor Christian & Southern Gothic

  Thrash to southern rock back through industrial and some good ole metal.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jan 20, 2009

• Music Review: Apocalyptica, Scale the Summit, Uriah Heep, Rising Force, and Mortification

  Mortification, Rising Force, Scale the Summit, and Uriah Heep in an Apocalyptica release.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Jan 08, 2009

• Music Review: Maegashira, Plastic Crimewave Sound, Psykup, ZZ Top, Within Temptation, and Wino

  Some Plastic, Wino and southern Texas blues rock feature in this week's roundup.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Dec 29, 2008

• Music Review: The Yardbirds, Hades, Lair of the Minotaur, Kreator, Ross the Boss, Sinner, Ephrat, & Karmakanic

  Ross the Boss, through prog-ville via Hades to watch Yardbirds.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Dec 09, 2008

• Music Review: Guns n' Roses, Cryonic Temple, Crystal Eyes, Symphony X, Uli Jon Roth, Weapons of Musical Defence, and Bible of the Devil

  Axl's solo, rather GnR release, lots of power metal, a concept album against Jihad and a few other things.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Dec 01, 2008

• Music Review: Joetown, Kip Winger, Omnium Gatherum, Plan9, Samothrace, Theocracy, and Viking Skull

  God bothering power metal to death rock via a bit of Kip Winger.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Nov 15, 2008

• Music DVD Review: Decapitated, Nashville Pussy, Society1, Vision of Disorder, and Onslaught

  A Decapitated Nashville Pussy Onsluaght in Society1. Confused? Don't worry it just my latest DVD music round-up.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Nov 10, 2008

• Music Reviews: AC/DC, Motorhead, Evergrey, The Lizards, Living Colour, Godhead, and Xystus

  A power metal opera, some quality blues rock and a bit of (Living) Colour.

  Review by Marty Dodge — on Oct 29, 2008

• 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