The 2013 Martin Popoff 24-page ebook about the making of the Sweet album, Give Us A Wink.Y'know, this is exactly the type of record that makes writing these things worthwhile. Any old school metal watcher worth his salt knows that...
The 2024 Martin Popoff short eBook about the building blocks of the progressive metal genre. Welcome back to another Martin Popoff Top 20. The idea for this regular feature began strictly as a look at songs, and you can see...
The 2019 Martin Popoff 26-page ebook about the making of the 1980 Pat Travers Band album, Crash and Burn. The last of the summer sun trilogy for this Canuck-moved-to-Florida axe hero, Crash and Burn went further south than the panhandle...
The 2015 Martin Popoff 12-page eBook about the making of Angel Witch’s 1980 album, Angel Witch. The joy and purpose of writing up the story of Angel Witch’s foreboding self-titled masterpiece of doomful NWOBHM is in the telling of a...
Contents Under Pressure: 30 Years Of Rush At Home And Away is the only Rush book on the market authorized by the band themselves. Insiders realize the feat of this accomplishment, given the Rush organization's highly protective nature of the...
The 2013 Martin Popoff ebook analyzing the complete two-record catalogue of '70s hard rock band Lone Star. Lone Star were a strange, knotted-up, progressive hard rock band from the UK, sort of like Widowmaker, and this is the story of...
The 2022 Martin Popoff short eBook about Sammy Hagar-era Van Halen.In this ongoing series of documents, Martin Popoff breaks down his 20 favourite songs by the artist. Each track gets a substantial “mini-review” as Popoff counts down the tracks, beginning...
Quite simply, Martin Popoff’s Sabotage! Black Sabbath in the Seventies marks the most intensive analysis of Black Sabbath’s first eight albums ever attempted, and here you have the author himself reading the whole damned, doomed thing to you, all epic...
The 2015 Martin Popoff 13-page eBook about the making of Savatage’s 1983 album, Sirens. The metal class delivered, in 1983, at least three of the genre’s greatest records, Kill ’Em All, Melissa and Sirens, the latter, by our band at...
The 2025 Martin Popoff short eBook about Top 20 Songs by The Damned. This is another one within the series of Martin’s hit Top 20 lists (some of them break the 20 rule!) looking at various zesty prog, punk, classic rock...
The 2014 Martin Popoff 20-page ebook about the making of the MC5 album, Kick Out The Jams.MC5’s incendiary debut album Kick Out The Jams was a flamethrower of a live conceit, and gathering it in as a metalhead moptop a...
The 2013 Martin Popoff ebook analyzing the glory years of Irish hard rock band Thin Lizzy. In the follow-up to Fighting My Way Back: Thin Lizzy 69-76, Popoff picks up the rough 'n' tumble Lizzy saga just as the band...
The 2016 Martin Popoff 20-page ebook about the making of the Judas Priest album, Defenders of the Faith. In this much expanded and rewritten chapter from Martin’s long out-of-print and collectible Judas Priest book, Heavy Metal Painkillers, Popoff looks at...
The 2016 Martin Popoff short eBook on the making of Bloodrock's album, Bloodrock. The detailed story of the album, including track-by-track analysis from the author and extensive commentary from the band themselves, interviewed specifically for this essay. Note: This is...
The 2024 Martin Popoff short eBook about the greatest debut albums of all time. Welcome back to another Martin Popoff Top 20. The idea for this regular feature began strictly as a look at songs, and you can see that...
The 2008 eBook by Martin Popoff. Ye Olde Metal: 1976 is the follow-up to Ye Olde Metal: 1973 To 1975 and Ye Olde Metal: 1968 To 1972. In this series, Martin does detailed examinations of classic old albums, using new...