Like many older fans, I haven’t been into the past couple releases. This single feels very promising, though. I hope they don’t go so far “back to power metal” that they piss off all of their new fans, though, if that makes sense.

Having talked to younger fans who think Talviyo and The Ninth Hour are basically God’s gifts to music, I’d hate to see them hate a new album because it “sounds too much like their old stuff when they weren’t as good”.

Either way, I love seeing these guys still around and Tony sounds pretty good here which is nice to see - I haven’t been particularly impressed by him for a while and it had me worried that he did serious damage to his voice.

Just to clarify, there is a pay scale. $15 puts your submission in line. $35 puts you in front of the line. $50 I guess means you’re next? Its just lised as the “very front”. So I guess if you’re only willing to shell out $15, you better hope no one has paid 50 or 35.

I can understand that this also benefits from just an onslaught of any old garbage to get reviewed, because I have no doubt that if submissions were free it would be hours of Glenn just skipping through all of the garbage.

I don’t think it’s necessarily wrong I suppose, everyone has to make a living and you have to police content that gets shoved in your face somehow, but I can’t say I’m a huge fan of this set up. Not that I have a better suggestion, though, and I absolutely would hope for a better system than this.

That being said, if I were in a metal band then I would probably throw money his way to see what he said. His channel has a lot of great information that I’ve used over the years.

Go figure, I put the stream on as I’m typing this comment, and he read a comment where someone said they’d love to have their music reviewed but they don’t have any money and in typically Glenn fashion he responded with “then get a job you cheap fuck!”. Which I guess really is kind of how it goes. For a band who is serious about getting input, $50 really isn’t that much. Most bands lose more money than that on many gigs early on anyway, that’s just the nature of the industry. It isn’t necessarily fair - but again, I sure don’t have a better solution. There’s only so much time for people to listen to and review all of the new music being made.

In not familiar with many people who genuinely hate Jack White. He’s never claimed to be a stellar guitarist and a lot of his career was built on this “I’m doing this with cheap gear and I’m not amazing but I’m still making great music and so can you!” vibe which was really awesome and inspirational for a ton of new players.

I will say that I understand when he gets criticism for performances that just come across as trying too hard to be different. His Star Spangled Banner for example. Not that I personally think you have to “sing it straight” as many would say, I’m all for experimentation… but I’m not sure I “get” what he was going for.

Seriously! I hang out in a lot of Synthwave groupd. Seeing bands like Gundship mentioned outside of things like that is so cool.

A few recommendations

Grand Magus is closer to the Ozzy style, especially if you’re into the Black Sabbath stuff.

Cauldron are a really solid classic sounding heavy metal band.

I would love to recommend Scorpion Child But it’s been a decade since they’ve released an album so I’m not sure what’s going on, there.

Haunt are my favorite modern band who I think fit your style. These guys just keep getting better so far