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Kenny Hickey: A Rock And Roll Fables Conversation

15 June 2023 By jesse Leave a Comment

“A hope, a prayer, and a plane ticket and a couple of riffs! For fear of letting down my buddy who spent all this money we had to come up with something…”

The “buddy” in question is a former Danzig merch guy and the reason you have a veritable supergroup of Metal/Sludge/Doom talent featuring members of Crowbar, Down, Type O Negative, and Silvertomb according to EYE AM vocalist/guitarist Kenny Hickey recently via phone:

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Filed Under: Interviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Corpse Paint Records, Crowbar, Danzig, Drew Spaulding, EYE AM, Johnny Kelly, Kenny Hickey, Kirk Windstein, Rock And Roll Fables, Seventh Void, Silvertomb, Todd Strange, Type O Negative

Singles! EYE AM, “Dreams Always Die With The Sun”

26 May 2023 By jesse 2 Comments

The only complaint we have about the debut single from supergroup EYE AM is this: Why did no one in either party think to do this before??? Featuring Type O Negative’s guitarist/vocalist Kenny Hickey and drummer Johnny Kelly with Crowbar’s vocalist/guitarist Kirk Windstein and former Crowbar and Down bassist Todd Strange, EYE AM is ready to set the music world ablaze with their inspired modern Doom that also takes turns visiting a time when the term “Heavy Metal” was on the rise and “Shock Rock” had yet to be defined for a Black Sabbath meets Iron Butterfly meets Alice Cooper hybrid that surprisingly sounds nothing like anything the sum of EYE AM’s parts are known for.

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Filed Under: Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables, Singles! Tagged With: "Dreams Always Die With The Sun", Corpse Paint Records, Crowbar, Johnny Kelly, Kenny Hickey, Kirk Windstein, Rock And Roll Fables, Seventh Void, Silvertomb, Todd Strange, Type O Negative

Crowbar Show Why They’re Still The Definitive Sludge Lords And Still Going Strong After Three Decades On Zero And Below

28 February 2022 By jesse Leave a Comment

In the year of our lord 2022, and over 30 years into their career as Sludge Metal GODS, there’s absolutely no denying what a new Crowbar record is going to sound like. It’s that same kind of comfort fans get when they press “Play” on any AC/DC masterpiece and with their latest, Zero And Below, the New Orleans outfit have managed to craft a quintessential Crowbar record that stays true to their roots while adding a slew of vibrantly vicious new sonic cuts to their already impressive arsenal of legendary tracks.

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Crowbar, Kirk Windstein, Matt Brunson, MNRK Heavy, Rock And Roll Fables, Shane Wesley, Tommy Buckley, Zero And Below

20 for ’20: An Exhausting List Of Our Favorite Music That Got Us Through A Truly Exhausting Year

31 December 2020 By jesse Leave a Comment

It’s an understatement that 2020 was a pretty fucked up year, right? Machine Head was the last live band I saw back in February and a few days after that I found myself in an emergency room with some unexpected surgery to be had (Don’t worry, I’m fine now!) followed by the shutdown across the country. There’ve been ups, downs, and everything in between in 2020 but one constant has been the music. Artists have adapted with some keeping those schedules and releasing new albums despite not being able to tour behind them while others are holding off altogether. Some have done well with the new norm of livestreamed concerts and while I’ve checked out a few, personally they’re just not my cuppa.

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables, Year End Tagged With: AC/DC, Armored Saint, Ascension of the Watchers, Bloodwitch, Burton C Bell, Bush, Caitlin Stokes, Corlyx, Eldridge Rodriguez, Electronic Substance Abuse, Elephant Tree, ESA, Feminenergy, Foot, Forming The Void, Greg Puciato, Higher Power, Hinayana, Hum, Irist, Julien-K, Killer Be Killed, Kirk Windstein, Loviatar, Magnetic Eye Records, Metal Blade Records, My Ruin, Negative Gain, Old Man Gloom, Poppy, Profound Lore, Puta Volcano, Roadrunner Records, Rock And Roll Fables, Ron Killings, Sepultura, SPICE, Static-X, Tairrie B, The Brains, The Network, Wailin' Storms, War On Women, Witchskull, WWE

New Crowbar! Dates With Down! But First! The Year Of Windstein Begins With Long-Awaited Debut Solo Album, Dream in Motion

17 January 2020 By jesse Leave a Comment

Crowbar has a new album coming out this year! Down will be celebrating 25 years since their seminal debut was released! AND we get Kirk Windstein’s first ever solo outing to boot? How are we all so lucky? And most importantly, how is Kirk Windstein so goddamn amazing to bestow this much Sludge awesomeness upon us in 2020? Those questions and more will (most likely) be answered if you read on…or, at the very least, you’ll get a pretty decent review of Dream In Motion which is out on January 24th.

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Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Crowbar, Dream in Motion, Entertainment One, Kirk Windstein, Rock And Roll Fables, solo album

20 for ’20: AKA 20 Albums We Think Will Kick Off Your New Decade Right

3 January 2020 By jesse 2 Comments

2020 has a lot going for it already with a slew of stellar albums dropping right at the start AND a year where Ozzy will release new material is a feat in itself. Also on the horizon beyond what we’ve listed below is a new beast from Rawk Gods Aeges (Review coming soon), more maniacal mayhem from Dog Fashion Disco, Megadeth’s triumphant return, and the original members of Static X reuniting to bring the late Wayne Static’s final recordings to light as a whole new full-length due this May. Hell, even Duran Duran will supposedly be back this spring with the follow up to 2015’s Paper Gods!

But I digress.

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Filed Under: Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: 2020 music, 2020 preview, Alain Johannes, Ascension of the Watchers, Asking Alexandria, Chris Jericho, Code Orange, Dubioza kolektiv, Fozzy, Gojira, Julien-K, Kirk Windstein, Lamb of God, Marilyn Manson, Mastodon, Old Man Gloom, Poppy, Rob Zombie, Rock And Roll Fables, Rorschach Test, Stabbing Westward, Static-X, Testament, Tombs, Youth Code

Crowbar Brings The Lumbering Brutality On The Serpent Only Lies

29 September 2016 By jesse Leave a Comment

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Crowbar will always hold a special place in my heart. While Pantera is technically the first live “show” I ever attended it was Crowbar, who opened, who will always be the first band I ever saw live. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Album Reviews, Music, New Releases, Rock And Roll Fables Tagged With: Crowbar, Crowbar band, crowbar new album, eOne Music, Kirk Windstein, Matt Brunson, Rock And Roll Fables, The Serpent Only Lies, Todd Strange, Tommy Buckley

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