Alan Lyall's Page

The complete album track-by-track guide to the new Rammstein album for the first time anywhere in the world.
Singing in French, a track that sounds like Depeche Mode and ending with an acoustic song that’s key hook is Till Lindemann whistling? Welcome to the mad world of the new Rammstein album!

1. Rammlied – A long operatic intro gives way to some epic power-chords and drums in tandem before a typically mammoth industrial riff takes over. This is a track that celebrates all things Rammstein an… Continue

Get a party playlist and a recipe for the perfect Black Tooth cocktail as we celebrate all things Dimebag!

Today, metal remembers Dimebag Darrell on what would have been his 43rd birthday. We”ll start off with our top 5 tunes that Dimebag would have banged his head to tonight:

1. Kiss – Cold Gin
Kiss. Possibly the only thing that Dimebag loved more than shots of Crown Royal.

2. Van Halen – …And The Cradle Will Rock
Dime and Vinnie kicked off their musical endeavours by playing Van Halen cover… Continue

I finally get to see Bruno

Is Bruno as funny as Borat? That's the question everyone wants to know and, just in case you're in a hurry, the answer is no - but it's a photo finish. Using the same faux documentary set up as Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen takes his new creation - a "19-year-old" gay Austrian fashionista - on the road and pits him against prevailing homosexual prejudices (Defamer's faux title spelled it out - Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual… Continue

I could fill a couple of paragraphs with random Cannibal Corpse musings, but who really cares? Instead, here are the facts as I see them. Chris Barnes' departure during the recording for Vile was the second best thing to ever happen to the band; the introduction of George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher as their new vocalist was the best thing. While Barnes and Six Feet Under have devolved into a stale stereotype, Cannibal Corpse has evolved into a genuine death metal powerhouse over the course of the pa… Continue

It’s hard to imagine any die-hard Battlestar Galactica fan not loving the intense action, satisfying deaths, and brilliant payoff to Roslin, Athena and Caprica Six’s opera house dreams. But the second half is what may have lost some people.

After jumping away from the fight, the Galactica found Earth. The real Earth. Our Earth. While the planet the ship landed on at the end of “Revelations” was the mythic Earth that the 13th tribe landed on in the Battlestar Galactica mythology, this new planet… Continue