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Top Ten Voting for 2012 is online! You know the drill -- head on over to the 2012  page and cast your votes!


Bruce Dickinson wins the best vocalist tournament! Thanks to everyone that voted. I'll have some post-tournament commentary on the site soon. You can see how it all turned out here.


BNR's 100 Favorite Metal Songs

I recently compiled a list of my favorite metal songs of all time. See the entire list, with commentary and links to YouTube clips, here.

Recent Updates

April 27, 2013

New pages:
   Cruel Force
   Lich King
   Tank 86

Recent albums:
   Warbeast
   Deathchain
   Stone Sour
   Accu§er
   Memory Garden
   Iced Earth
   Legend
   Spiritual Beggars
   Ghost
   Amorphis
   Rob Zombie
   Vicious Rumors
   Deep Purple

March 30, 2013

news: Sacred Blade guitarist/vocalist Jeff Ulmer passes away
news: Iron Maiden former drummer Clive Burr passes away
New pages:
   Blue Cheer
   Earth
   Powerwolf

Recent albums:
   Virus
   Barón Rojo
   Satan Jokers
   Misanthrope
   Tokyo Blade
   Hatebreed
   Subterranean Masquerade
   Sinister
   Grayceon
   Meshuggah
   Tierra Santa
   Misfits
   Blaze
   Hate Profile
   The Amenta
   Raven Black Night
   Misery Index
   Stratovarius
   Voodoo Circle
   Mourning Beloveth
   Eternal Tears Of Sorrow
   Luna Ad Noctum
   Lord
   Krokus
   Crest Of Darkness
   Omnium Gatherum
   Byzantine
   Darkthrone
   Dream Death
   Soilwork
   Thyrfing
   Saxon
   Rotting Christ
   Vreid
   Lordi
   Black Crucifixion
   Blood Tsunami
   Dynahead
   Orange Goblin
   Gamma Ray

February 27, 2013

news: 220 Volt reforms
New pages:
   Hatriot
   Ov Hell
   Vallenfyre

Recent albums:
   Killers
   Maltese Falcon
   Nightwish
   Corrosion Of Conformity
   AC/DC
   Prototype
   8thSin
   Funeral
   Mägo De Oz
   Hanzel Und Gretyl
   Macabre
   The Project Hate
   Flotsam & Jetsam
   Dorsal Atlantica
   Audrey Horne
   Hatriot
   Gates Of Slumber
   Enforcer
   Attacker
   Kongh
   Defeated Sanity
   Soothsayer
   Suffocation
   Sacred Steel
   Devil's Whorehouse
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