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Meat Loaf’s “Bat Out Of Hell” Still Rocking At 40 (1977-2017) | | PiercingMetal.com

Meat Loaf’s “Bat Out Of Hell” Still Rocking At 40 (1977-2017) | | PiercingMetal.com

“You Wanted The Best!!!” – KISS “Alive II” Is Forty Years Old!!! (1977-2017) | | PiercingMetal.com

“You Wanted The Best!!!” – KISS “Alive II” Is Forty Years Old!!! (1977-2017) | | PiercingMetal.com

U2’s “The Joshua Tree” Still Thriving @ 30 Years (1987-2017)

U2’s seminal release “The Joshua Tree” is celebrating its 30th Anniversary and you can learn our thoughts about it over on PiercingMetal by clicking HERE.

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Metallica’s “Master Of Puppets”; Still Pulling Our Strings After 30 Years (1986-2016)

Metallica’s “Master Of Puppets” Still Pulling Our Strings After 30 Years

After a very mellow opening that led us to a building crescendo, the “Master Of Puppets” album started smashing our skulls with its opening track “Battery”. It was an assault from the beginning with the words “Lashing out the action, returning the reaction Weak are ripped and torn away, Hypnotizing power, crushing all that cower, Battery is here to stay”. As I listened to it once more while I…

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Ozzy Osbourne’s “The Ultimate Sin” Is Thirty Years Old Today

In 1986 I was finding myself getting far more broad in terms of my Metal appreciation and this was thanks to many of the influential artists that had released works during the previous couple of years. I was an active musician at the time and since one could count on Metal music videos being showcased on MTV around this time, it was easy to let the Heavy Metal genre take you over and to worlds of…

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