In Memoriam: Ace Frehley — The Spaceman Who Made Kids Believe
In Memoriam: Ace Frehley — The Spaceman Who Made Kids Believe By Viktorea Venus • HeavyMetalBuzz.com • October 17, 2025 Yesterday, we lost a giant. Ace Frehley—founding lead guitarist of KISS, the silver-painted Spaceman who set arenas on fire and set a million kids on a path to six strings—passed away at 74 in New […]
What If Brad Gillis Had Done an Album with Ozzy Osbourne in the ’80s?
By Viktorea Venus · HeavyMetalBuzz.com Artistic silhouette inspired by Ozzy & Brad’s 1982 stage presence. The 1980s were a golden age for heavy metal, and few figures loomed larger than Ozzy Osbourne. After being fired from Black Sabbath in 1979, Ozzy launched a solo career that would redefine him as a metal legend. Central to […]
1980: The Year Heavy Metal Took Over
This feature is just the beginning. Each month, we’ll journey deeper into the 1980s, year by year, revisiting the top 10 heavy metal songs that shaped the decade. From the birth of thrash to the rise of glam, HeavyMetalBuzz and Viktorea Venus will guide you through every riff, roar, and revolution that made the 80s […]
Walpurgis: The Dark Birth of War Pigs
Rare early session cover art from a “War Pigs” bootleg. By Viktorea Venus – HeavyMetalBuzz.com Before War Pigs became the ultimate metal protest anthem, it was something far darker, stranger, and dripping with occult imagery. It was called “Walpurgis.” Yeah, you heard me right. The Black Sabbath classic you know from Paranoid didn’t start out […]
What Ozzy Meant to Gen X Metalheads
By Viktorea Venus | HeavyMetalBuzz.com We didn’t discover Ozzy Osbourne—he discovered us. Generation X didn’t invent metal, but we inherited it in its rawest, most unfiltered form. And for us, Ozzy wasn’t just a rock star. He was a living, screaming, bat-biting embodiment of everything we loved and feared about growing up in a world […]
Is Heavy Metal Dead in North America? Viktorea Venus Investigates
Is heavy metal really dead in North America? It’s a question I get asked a lot. Usually by people who stopped listening after 1992. So let’s break it down. Not with nostalgia—but with numbers, facts, and some good old-fashioned metal attitude. Stadiums Still Burn If heavy metal was truly dead, nobody told the fans. In […]
Reinforcer Unleash the Lyric Video for “Ice And Death” – New Album Drops August 22
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“Salome Synister on MESSA’s The Spin: A Descent into Scarlet Doom”
Home Live Month In Metal New Releases There are albums that whisper to you from the shadows — and then there are albums that drag you through them. MESSA’s The Spin is the latter. It’s not a record you listen to casually while folding laundry or scrolling mindlessly. The Spin demands — no, commands — […]
Lose Your Phones! Raise Your Horns! Go back in Time with Maiden
Home Live Metal Archives New Releases What if a concert wasn’t just a show… but a battlefield? I’ve been feeling the tremors, metalheads. Something’s coming. And if Iron Maiden’s rumored Run For Your Lives tour is real—strap in. Because this won’t be your standard arena gig. This will be an onslaught. Picture it: the lights […]
Lemmy Kilmister: Born to Lose, Lived to Win
Home Live Metal Archives New Releases Fifty years ago, a thunderous roar shook the world of rock ‘n’ roll. It wasn’t polished. It wasn’t pretty. It was raw, loud, and unstoppable. And at the center of that explosion stood one man — Lemmy Kilmister. Born Ian Fraser Kilmister in 1945, Lemmy didn’t follow the rules. […]