Sunday Spotlight 60 SUNDAY ALBUM TO CHOMP SHROOMS TO: THE FLOWER TRAVELLIN’ BAND – SATORI February 8th, 2009 at 5:35pm Kip Wingerschmidt We here at MetalBlows take our retro obscure seriously. Not […]
Sunday Spotlight 90 SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT: IN FLAMES – SWEDISH LEGENDS, INSPIRATION FOR A GENERATION OF METAL March 30th, 2008 at 5:38pm Vince Neilstein The influence and importance of Gothenburg, Swedish’s In Flames is […]
Sunday Spotlight 30 SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT: THE POWERFUL POLYMETRIC PROTO-PROG PUNCH OF THE ALMIGHTY EXTREME METAL MASTERS MESHUGGAH (REPOST) March 9th, 2008 at 3:15pm Kip Wingerschmidt (In preparation for Tuesday’s release of *ObZen*, the new album […]
Sunday Spotlight 750 SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT – “BAND OF GYPSYS” LIKELY THE BEST FUNK-ROCK ALBUM EVER, AND BUDDY MILES IS THE REASON WHY (OH YEAH, AND JIMI PLAYED ON THE RECORD AS WELL) March 2nd, 2008 at 6:03pm Kip Wingerschmidt So this week we lost another extremely solid musician. For […]
Sunday Spotlight 90 SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT: CONVERGE, UNDEFINABLE HEROES February 10th, 2008 at 6:58pm Axl Rosenberg Dude. What fucking kind of music are you supposed to […]
Sunday Spotlight 120 SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT: HOW CAVE IN BECAME ONE OF THE MOST CREATIVE AND OVERLOOKED BANDS ON THE PLANET February 3rd, 2008 at 5:36pm Vince Neilstein Seminal Boston band Cave In have an intruiging history, one […]
Sunday Spotlight 160 SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT: DON’T YOU THINK THE MARS VOLTA DESERVES YOUR LOVE AND SUPPORT? January 27th, 2008 at 2:02pm Kip Wingerschmidt I mean, really — come on. There is no other […]
Sunday Spotlight 50 SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT: SOMEHOW DON CABALLERO GOT AWESOME AGAIN January 20th, 2008 at 1:21pm Kip Wingerschmidt Once upon a time, these guys were amazing, in a […]
Editorials 30 SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT – GET OBSESSED January 13th, 2008 at 11:18am Kip Wingerschmidt Legendary guitar player/frontman Scott “Wino” Weinrich led this rippin’ doomy […]
Sunday Spotlight 90 THE ULTRAMEGA OK SOUNDGARDEN EXTRAVAGANZA (re-post) December 16th, 2007 at 3:32pm Kip Wingerschmidt Okay, so Vince may have beaten me to the punch […]
Sunday Spotlight 20 SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT: MEDLEY BY MUELLER December 9th, 2007 at 4:26pm Kip Wingerschmidt So this guy Jeff Mueller, and the three seminal bands […]
Sunday Spotlight 70 SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT: MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA REALLY KNEW HOW TO OPEN UP AN ALBUM December 2nd, 2007 at 11:59am Kip Wingerschmidt John McLaughlin is perhaps the most purposeful shredder I have […]
Sunday Spotlight 50 SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT: OPETH IS STILL F*CKING FANTASTIC November 18th, 2007 at 1:16pm Kip Wingerschmidt Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Sunday Spotlight, in […]