akira wrote:One thing I always loved about Bob Muldowney's Kick Ass Monthly Magazine, when I was a teenager. Motorhead appeared in alot of issuses.
Rock N Roll band in supposed important metal mag, in which at the same time, Mercyful Fate and Attacker are ridiculed.
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.......at least to me it is THE heavy metal magazine of alltime....I rate Snakepit Higher Than Kick Ass Monthly, but yeah, I like Kick Ass Monthly better than his main competetior Metal Forces, because with Kick Ass Monthly he covered tradtional metal and extreme metal (before most publications), while Metal Forces covered traditional/ extreme and commerical metal. Which made Metal forces like a stange and bizarre cross between Kick Ass monthly and Hit Parader.
I never cared that KAM ripped on Mercyful Fate or Attacker or Dark Age from California or who ever had high pitched or falsetto vocals. Because I always like high pitched stuff from Judas Priest, and Robert Planet. I got into Led Zepplin because CJSS covered "Communication Breakdown". On the January 1986 album "World Gone Madd"
Screaming like Hetfeild (83-86 era) is metal and screaming falsetto high pitched like King Diamond is metal. I wish more singers mixed the two together.
As far as Mercyful Fate, I always liked them better than Metallica. Which was Bob Muldowney's favorite band. With Mercyful Fate. I always knew they influenced Metallica, Exodus, Slayer, Forbidden, Anthrax and tons of other GODLY metal acts.
I have no problem with someone slagging Attacker, Mercyful Fate, Dark Age, because I knew that stuff would stand the test of time. Bob Mitchell is a metal GOD. King Diamond is a metal GOD, and Robert Stevens is a METAL GOD.
But the main thing I always read KAM for was his love for bands in the vein of Motorhead/ Metallica/ Slayer/ Venom/ Exciter/ Raven/ Warfare plus he covered hardcore punk rock/ death metal and black metal before anyone else...I can not think of a power-thrash-death-metal classic album in my collection which I did NOT learn about in KICKASS Monthly. The ones he missed were covered by Snakepit, so I was not out alot of money, because he only missed one or two albums like the Slauter Xstroyes and Deep Switch.
I think Laurent Ramadier is a better journalist and Snakepit is more heavier than Kick Ass Monthly. Because Snakepit features some of the heaviest bands of the earth that have heavy metal elements, to the songwriting.
The cool thing about fanzines back in the 80's was if you collected a years worth, (the publication is not important....just the advertisments, write ups...the record reviews were) and you could rip out the best pages, and have something like a heavy metal yellow pages of the best bands and the best labels.
But I always give credit where credit is due. And yeah I am pretty psyched about discovering of Deep Switch " Nine inches of God " from the GODLY corroseum webzine!!!......( I agree with the record review here if your a rabid/ crazed Sabbat History of a time to come fanatic, you need the Deep Switch CD) Keep em coming like that !!!!!.........f*!@ yeah.
Mayber Muldowney and Ramadier are wrong that faster/ heavier with harder riffs and better songwriting is MORE metal.
When Muldowney died the heavy metal role model left... was Paul Baloff then he died, and that now only leaves only Laurent Ramadier, as the heaviest of the heavy metal fantaics/ maniacs.
