Rate-A-Record: Heavy Metal and Hard Rock Volume

Rate these hard-hitting tracks

Alexander Razin
2 min readOct 27, 2022
Photo by Eric from Pexels

As the title suggests, we’re rating some straight-edge heavy metal. Don’t worry, no screaming (though the hard rock song contains growls at the end.) As much as I love a good guttural scream and pig squeal, I can listen to them in my spare time.

See, I care about you, dear reader.

I write stories for you.

This article is no exception.

The rules for Rate-A-Record are simple. As explained by nonfiction and music extraordinaire Terry Barr,

A place where two teens stood there with Dick [host of American Bandstand], listened to snippets of two songs, and then rated them anywhere from 35–98.

Those are the rules. These are my songs.

Starting with,

Planet B–King Gizzard & The Wizard Lizard

The psychedelic rock powerhouse wrote a thrash metal album (Infest the Rats’ Nest), one of their best albums. Not…

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