Try as I might, I can't avoid delivering some assessment of Lulu, the bombastic, ill-conceived collaboration between Lou Reed and Metallica. For weeks since it's Titanic release (I'm using the ship metaphor here, not a synonym for great size), people have been tripping over themselves to state the obvious with ...

Metalheads know that the best thing about heavy metal is that the rules don’t apply to it. While classic rock is shackled with commercial measurements that are used to determine if an album is successful or not, metal not only ignores those formulas but its constant shifts make it impossible ...