Remembering Rock.

by Kamil Tariq

Metallica’s new Album:
Thrash pioneers Metallica are still bearing the metal flag at this time, with their latest release “Death Magnetic”. Although the music has changed since their first album “kill‘em all in” in the early 80’s, but the quality and the soul of the music is still pure. All 12 tracks of the album including the second sequel to the legendary track “unforgiven” , are not characterized by the speed and the intensity that was found in the earlier albums, but a true metal fan cannot say no to a Metallica album. Whatever the critics have to say they are …. Not welcome to cause we give respect to the people who defined and still are defending “Thrash Metal”.




The Song remains the same:
Everything that exists today has its roots in some past time. Today we talk about new bands releasing albums and going on world tours, but we should remember where it all began. England was the Place and “led-zeppelin” was the name. I think that about sums it up if it’s the roots of rock n roll that we’re talking about. Led-Zeppelin laid the founding stone and provided inspiration to all artists from different genres of music let alone Rock music. Led-Zeppelin has come up with a DVD that is a compilation of all its greatest tracks and also some new tracks. The 2 DVD pack named “Mother ship” is a complete rock music dictionary, Robert’s versatile and steady vocals, jimmy’s legendary blues cum heavy metal guitars, along with john Bonham’s exceptional drumming. Sadly, as everything has to end, this would be the bands last release but for always we will follow the lyrics “To be a rock and not to roll”.




Going back into time:
In this edition we give our readers a little history of who were the main bands and which were the tours that were instrumental for bringing rock music to the front. Early rock/Heavy metal was heavily influenced by Blues music. Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Eric Clapton, Eddie van Halen, Jeff Beck etc. were all basically blues musicians but most of the heavy metal musicians and musicians of other extreme genres of metal were influenced by these people. Just a little while ago we were remembering Woodstock which was in 1969, a rock concert the most massive at the time. Similarly later on different concerts helped promote the genre, in the 80’s “The clash of the titans”, “Metal Mania”, “Wacken” named after a place in Germany an event for the true metal fan still is a yearly festival, but probably the most u can say flamboyant or glamorous events of all is “Ozzfest” named after and started by Black Sabbath vocalist Ozzy Osborne in the 70’s and still continuing till date.