Tag: Heavy Metal

This week we’re going to listen to something on the humorous side of the metal spectrum:

Paddy and the Rats isn’t a metal band per se but its song Where Red Paints the Ocean contains enough metal elements that I’m going to let it fly for Monday Metal (mostly because I’m a sucker for metal songs with strong folk elements).

I first became aware of Blaze Bayley, as many people did, when he became the lead singer for Iron Maiden. Although I wasn’t a fan of The X Factor, I really enjoyed Virtual XI. But even with Virtual XI I never felt like he was the right person to lead Iron Maiden. However, after he was fired from Iron Maiden, Blaze began a solo career and that is where, in my opinion, he really began to flourish.

Blaze just released the third album in his Infinite Entanglement science fiction trilogy, which I really enjoyed. So this week we’re going to listen to the first song off of that album.