(ThyBlackMan.com) We’re doing another album dive and this time it’s Sound Barrier’s 1986 release Speed of Light! Sound Barrier was one of the bands mentioned in our Black heavy metal/hard rock feature and Speed of Light was the recommended album. How good is it compared to their 1983 debut Born ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) We’re going to take a detour from our dives into rock and metal to take a look at a blues album that tends to get overlooked. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins was one of the early Black pioneers of rock. Now, he didn’t go full on into early rock n roll ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Stealth games and RPGs are my jam. An RPG or action game with a really good stealth system will get my attention quickly. In those case, stealth doesn’t have to be a major component of the gameplay, it just has to be good. It has to be implemented in ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In some ways, video games are no different from television shows, comics, or films in that a series can be ended when you warm up to it. Sometimes, a series goes on a little too long because the developer has a little too much faith in it being something ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The “Big 4 of Thrash Metal” refers to four American band’s that had massive influence on thrash metal’s formation and popularity during the 80s. This influence also extends to American metal in general. These four bands include Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, and the most known of the four, Metallica. There’s ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) She’s a mean girl. She holds court like Maleficent, Mistress of Evil. Does she reign over a kingdom? No. A street gang? No. Prison inmates? No. She’s the black teenage mobster don at a prestigious Pennsylvania boarding school. This very eccentric look at the worst of humankind comes from the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) March 13, 2020 was the day school shut down for my son here in Louisiana. In the time it took for the news to break and me to pick him up stores became packed. Items that were on the shelf at noon had disappeared. I was able to find ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) I’ve spent almost the last two weeks quarantined. Not going outside, not having any contact with people, in pain, hoping that all would be well. Like mana across the US, I’m presumptively positive for COVID-19, the novel coronavirus that has taken the world by storm. The reason I say ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The moment that Idris Elba, a phenomenal actor I was initially introduced to as Stringer Bell on The Wire, was afflicted with the Coronavirus (Covid-19), my mind immediately reverted to Marcus Mosiah Garvey’s most poignant observations revealed about his prodigious travels abroad. According to the famed Pan-Africanist, I don’t ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) At some point in our lives we experience it. The individual with just enough information to make a point that sounds sensible but no real foundational information to defend it. A great quote by Eraldo Banovac is “Superficial knowledge is potentially more dangerous than ignorance. It gives a false ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Formed in 1981 as L.A Kaos, Hirax is one of the Bay Area bands that used to get overlooked. It was always around but when it became Hirax in 1984 and took to the thrash sound of the area, the crew headed up by Katon W. de Pena garnered ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) After a wild debut album in 1982 and a cleaner but still electric follow up in 1983, we arrive in 1986. Bad Brains has been around as a band since 1977 at this point. They’ve done in helping to mold hardcore punk in the early 1980s. Like many artists ...