Buttkickin’ Halloween Songs: “Heavy Metal (Takin’ A Ride)” — Don Felder (1981)

It’s not a big surprise to feel your temperature rise You’ve got a touch of redline fever ‘Cause there is just one cure that we know for sure You just become a heavy metal believer… This is a song about a freakin’ car, and it rules. And I can’t stand The Eagles anymore, but hot…

Album Review: “Piece of Mind” — Iron Maiden (1983)

To chart my hard rock/heavy metal development, I would have to start as a budding young KISS devotee as a child in the late 70s. In 1981 I discovered AC/DC, having pretty much worn out my dog-eared “Back In Black” cassette tape through massively repeated listens on any boombox I could get my hands on.…