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05/01/2026

January 1971 - 2026: 55 years of: Lucifer's Friend.

Heavy-Rock: man's best friend.

British heaviness and American hippieness: Hamburg welcomes us to Hell. Providing the best of heavyrock, the scene rides along with new co-pilot: LUCIFER'S FRIEND.

Louder than Hell, these misfits "Ride The Sky". An electric fast jab and French horn supported, one hard trick not experimented by many.

From rapid fire to heavy-doom, that "Keep Goin" hard, while the classicrock of "Toxic Shadows" and "Baby You're A Liar" melts FM Station into fuming rubles. The blues groove of "Everybody's Clown" and "In The Time Of Job When Mammon Was A Yippie" brings more hooks and fat decibels to the plate.

A beautiful brutal bast**d between BLUE CHEER and DEEP PURPLE ...heavyrock proto-metal ...Belzebuth's favorite band. LUCIFER'S FRIEND shall make new friends and fans, as the progressive element would possess 1972's Where The Groupies Killed The Blues LP.

RIP Joachim Rietenbach (1949-1974)
RIP Dieter Horns (1946-2020)
RIP John Lawton (1946-2021)
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Lucifer's Friend = full LP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmnJ527hbJo&list=PLGsP1puWea4wZkQfWRLvmaHn_OttTekp-
Live at the Beat Club in 1971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD_mytxCdeg
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01/01/2026

January 1, 1986 - 2026: 40 years of: Hear 'N Aid.

Move over Lionel ...here comes real trouble.

1985, a year were both pop and rock were on top ...and hardrockers were about to get a shot at the stars.

Following the universally successful Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson written We Are The World single, the hardrock-community shouted back, with more decibels. Members of DIO, TWISTED SISTER, BLUE ÖYSTER CULT, DOKKEN, QUIET RIOT and IRON MAIDEN, to name a few, gathered in L.A. and made metal-magic.

The title-track "Stars" is a pounding hardrock anthem, featuring some key-players in the scene. Stellar vocal performances by Ronnie James Dio, Rob Halford, Geoff Tate, Kevin Dubrow and Dave Meniketti. And the six-string leads were provided by axemen: Yngwie J. Malmsteen, Craig Goldy, George Lynch and Vivian Campbell.

The rhythm section was handled by drummers Vinny Appice and Frankie Banali with Jimmy Bain on bass-guitar. While the badboys choir, included: Ted Mutherfocking Nugent, Blackie Lawless, Vince Neil ...and even England's loudest band: SPINAL TAP's Derek Smalls and David St-Hubbins.

Help for the African famine-crisis and an historical headbanging-event. Round of applause for mastermind Ronnie Dio, one of hardrock's most respected man. Rock for a cause in the glorious 80s ...when music mattered.
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Stars = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5H94GHb-10
Hear 'N Aid = full LP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iY5YAcRn3M&list=PLocQItO9Lf2MB27TM0ZAK4jsys-pISOiD
The documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM89fYqvvWw
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"One black, big leather, metallic familly." - Derek Smalls
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31/12/2025

Le voici: le bilan-annuel d'helterskelter.ca Depuis le début de mon aventure en 2017, j'ai créé 918 critiques. Voici une ventilation de mes créations de l'année 2025.

Elles vont comme suit:
- 254x critiques complète (chu fou bin raide !)

Ce qui ce détail en:
- 58x critiques de disque thrashmetal
- 55x critiques de disque hardrock
- 35x critiques de disque deathmetal
- 28x critiques de disque heavymetal
- 13x critiques de disque powermetal
- 11x critiques de disque classicrock
- 10x critiques de disque alternatif
- 10x critiques de disque melodicmetal
- 9x critiques de disque pop
- 6x critiques de disque hiphop
- 4x critiques de disque industriel
- 4x critiques de disque punk
- 4x critiques de disque blackmetal
- 1x critique de disque blues

ainsi que
- 7x critiques de film..voir les détails complet au: helterskelter.ca/reviews

Faque ...en 2026 nous soulignerons 30ans d'expérimentation hors du commun avec:
- le neo-deathrock de CARCASS, MASSACRE et GOREFEST.
- KATAKLYSM et CRYPTOPSY repousseront les limites de la démence.
- le doomsludge de SLEEP défiera l'horloge...et un groupe sang-pour-sang franco-fun marquera la Belle Province au fer-rouge.

35ans depuis 1991: l'année ultime pour le death, la fin du thrash et l'arrivé de Seattle:
- les Stonehenges du deathmetal avec SUFFOCATION, MORBID ANGEL et les créateurs: DEATH.
- les dernières perles cachées du thrash, notamment: VICIOUS RUMORS, LÄÄZ ROCKIT et DARK ANGEL.
- l'échec et mat commercial inattendu de NIRVANA, ICE CUBE ...et du T-1000..et l'album métal le plus vendu de toute l'histoire de l'humanité.

40ans depuis les immortels classique de:
- la géguerre continue entre META et MEGA ...sous le hurlement strident de l'Ange de la Mort.
- le hiphop devient mainstream grâce à deux trio de NYC.
- les méga-bombes d'EUROPE et BON JOVI ...et même le Prêtre se laisse tenter par Sunset Strip...et sous l'escorte de F-14 Tomcat, BERLIN domineront l'Amérique.

45ans depuis la compétition hardrock trans-Atlantique entre le UK et le US:
- DEF LEPPARD et JUDAS PRIEST ...versus... VAN HALEN et MÖTLEY CRÜE
- la chicane continue entre BLACK SABBATH et Ozzy Osbourne.
- un petit band Calgarien devient chanceux...et le renversement des pôles-magnétique via l'assaut Biblique de VENOM.

2026 c'est aussi 50ans depuis:
- le tour de force inouï de RUSH, l'arrivé des RAMONES et le duo infernal de KISS.
- quatre très jeunes adolescentes en fugue rocknroll.
- 50 terrifiante années depuis la consumation des tristes ailes de la destiné...et le 6 Juin, entre en scène de la façon la plus implacable, le futur leader: Damien Thorn.

EXIT LIGHT !!!
ENTER NIGHT !!!

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22/12/2025

December 22, 1965 - 2025: 60 years of: Thunderball.

The West gets thunderstrucked.

The prime antagonist organization in revenge and extortion finally has the upper hand. From gold digging to nuclear annihilation, from jet-pack to jet-ski ...James Bond prevents a global blackout.

SPECTRE dominates, as they rob two H-bomb warheads, both repurposed for US and UK targets. Built under the shadow of October's 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, racing against time and underwater in Nassau, the entire MI6 works around the clock to prevent the inevitable escalation. Thunderball's thriller also reveals one of the World's most ruthless man ...SPECTRE #2: Emilio Largo.

The movie-soundtrack is blessed by one of show-business's biggest asset: the title-track "Thunderball" sung by Tom Jones.

Now the hottest ticket under the Sun, 007 will return to action in 1967's You Only Live Twice ...under the blazing Nippon sunset.

RIP Disco Volante (1965)
RIP Michael Brennan AKA Janni (1912-1982)
RIP George Pravda AKA Ladislav Kutze (1916-1985)
RIP Adolfo Celi AKA #2 (1922-1986)
RIP Guy Doleman AKA Count Lippe (1923-1996)
RIP Philip Stone AKA #5 (1924-2003)
RIP Philip Locke AKA Vargas (1928-2004)
RIP Rik Van Nutter AKA Felix (1929-2005)
RIP Paul Stassino AKA François Derval / Angelo Palazzi (1930-2012)
RIP Mollie Peter AKA Patricia Fearing (1939-2017)
RIP Claudine Auger AKA Domino (1941-2019)
RIP Earl Cameron AKA Pinder (1917-2020)
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Thunderball = movie-trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbqYnB_wQJQ
Thunderball = movie-soundtrack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvr694Qzw2c&list=PL8855330573089E44
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10/12/2025

Décembre 1995 - 2025: 30 ans de: To Live… In This World Of Chaos.

Météo Hiver '95: une tempête chaotique.

Durant l'état altéré de 1995, la vague deathmetal s'empare de la Belle Province. AGONY, HIDDEN PRIDE, NECROTIC MUTATION et l'horreur de GORELUST ...ça fesse fort chez les boys. Et en direct de la twilight-zone d'Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, une meute rumine la haine. Mutation morbide entre le punk et le deathgrind, tassez vous les gars, voici les louves de November Grief.

La tension monte pendant que le doom de "Veil Of Disgust" dévolue en assaut-nucléaire. Le saignement abonde sur "Infanticide", les bombardements offensif de "Requiem (For Mother Earth)" et la consommation impulsive de "Exit Life (With China White)".

Complètement dément et délivré avec précision, le grind abrasif de "T.W.O.D." rage pendant que diamétralement, le message doomdeath est clair comme de l'eau de roche sur "Grass Is Gold". FTW et DIY !

Suite au démo Evil-Ution de 1994, la machine de guerre roule à plein poumon. Malheureusement, suite au coquet carnage de To Live… In This World Of Chaos, mis à part l'apparition brutale sur le DC-compilation Awakening Females In Extreme Music de 1997 ...il n'y aura pas de suite.

Mais surprise en 2020, la potion de NOVEMBER GRIEF: Stéphanie Masson et Annie Leclerc annonce une réunion. Plus t**d durant l'année 2025, le band est en en pleine création, avec un nouveau jeune line-up moderne. Forever in November.
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To Live… In This World Of Chaos = démo complet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnH6mxMLlP0&list=PLzgSMUIH7S17l2T7LCL2SYgPdYYvDniLA
Live au Spectrum en 1996
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b5yEJOqAQQ
Spine-Worm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioOrbHo9vkk
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05/12/2025

December 5, 1980 - 2025: 45 years of: Made In America.

"Were them guys from the Union ??"

Following the movie madness and instant worship, the boys would stay true ...and hit the road. Burying disco six feet under and rockin' and bluesin', The Blues Brothers are made in America.

Hard hittin' with "Who's Making Love", the jailbreakin' "Riot In Cell Number Nine" and the forever cool of "Green Onions". Smooth sailin' with the lovable "Guilty" and the equally r&b "Perry Manson Theme".

Now led by Paul Shaffer, the band crisscrossed the Red, White & Blue with pride and attitude. This would be the original BLUES BROTHERS last tour ever, as tragedy would struck Belushi in March 1982. The band would later reappear, with various line-ups and eventual 1998 return to the silver-screen.

RIP John Belushi AKA Jake (1949-1982)
RIP Steve "The Colonel" Cropper (1941-2025)
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Made In America = full LP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nF08EcbkNA&list=PL4sfVCWR8nGIdXlspt4SEz-gSby7_H_Gu
Live in New York City in 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39ibjVKAfH8
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03/12/2025

December 3, 1990 - 2025: 35 years of: What's The Truth ?

BANZAI !

After many sick thrash nights, these Japanese extremists would take form: S.O.B. ...a Sabotage Organized Barbarian. From putrid punk to crazy grindcore, this is one dearly celebrated nuclear blast.

An East-Coast mosh builds-up on "Over The Line" and "Repeat At Lenght". Eventually, the chaos explodes on "Unseen Terror", "Never" and the insanity of "Why ?". Crossover get over-driven, as "Meddlesome Heart" and the fast "Look Like Devil II (Hell)" sets the pit afire. Pure terrorizing riffing and terrorizing hyperblasts.

Influencing the genre, the Osaka tornado would befriend with NA**LM DEATH. After a string of demos and 1989's Thrash Night EP ...S.O.B. was at peak position. The band would later release the deathmetal influenced 1993's Gate Of Doom CD.

RIP Tottsuan (1965-1995)
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What's The Truth ? = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mirLdrt3Jw
Line in Schorndorf in 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V-AIO9-Z3o
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01/12/2025

December 1, 1975 - 2025: 50 years of: T.N.T.

Changing the course of history.

Still very under the radar, after February's High Voltage LP, 1975's calendar-year would now be completed with a heavy dose of T.N.T. Ear-protection required: here's the explosive big balls of AC/DC !

Raw rock, as the dreaded message "It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll)" rings truth aloud. With bag-pipes and attitude, these boys aim high. Pure dynamite, as "High Voltage" electrifies, "Rocker" ravages and "T.N.T." blasts us outta space. A cult is hatched on the slick tension built-up of "Live Wire", while the shameless shuffle of "The Jack" might be the coolest blues double-entendre ever put on tape.

"Oy ! Oy ! Oy ! Oy ! Oy ! Oy ! Oy ! Oy !"

Safely put aside Trinitrotoluene, the real formula is: Scott / Young / Young / Evans and new eventual long-time drummer: Phil Rudd. Originally released only for the Australia + New Zealand territory, the damage was lessen ...but this factor would soon change.

Now inked to Atlantic Records, the mid 70s was about to get their videos blown off. AC/DC's 1976 powerage shall includes High Voltage LP's Western release, featuring repackaged T.N.T. material, and later Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap LP ...to worldwide acclaim.
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High Voltage = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnjh-zp6pP4
T.N.T. = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LADzLojLRCU
It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'N' Roll) = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-qkY2yj4_A
T.N.T. = full LP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj_rvLVpqg8&list=PLw77gpNs69kfZP1qVN_AQX5CiZn0JzGl5
King Of Pop Awards in 1975
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P7xwGI4eRA
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30/11/2025

November 1985 - 2025: 40 years of: Carnivore.

Chew NYC alive.

During the nuclear speedmetal assault, some punks would overkill the Big Apple. Dwelling deep inside the underground, the raw mosh of CARNIVORE is now a crude reality.

Air-raid sirens wail, as the "Predator" rises. The brutally romantic speedmetal band's title-track for "Carnivore" is towered by the 6'8" Steele, while the fatality of "World Wars III And IV" are hand-delivered under strict DEFCON 1 protocol.

Caught between chains and blood, these wounds are lived through "Male Supremacy", a barbaric macho-mosh. The repulsive crossover of "Legion Of Doom" and the deicide of "God Is Dead" rules with pride.

"Did you cum, I eat and run I live for so**my."

Straight outta of the Ice Age, in full viking gear, this unique squad killed without kindness. Hardcore-metal with powermetal choruses. Another speed-punk smear would appear with 1987's Retaliation LP. Yet ...through sub-zero temperatures, this infection would rapidly morph into the slow, deep and hard TYPE O NEGATIVE.

RIP Keith Alexander (1963-2005)
RIP Petrus T. Steele (1962-2010)
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Carnivore = full LP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBr9_o-uCf0&list=PLkROH3Eqs0T_M98sCdQzL2qQge5ktoXPW
Interview in 1985
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF3X-n6YF-c
Live in NYC in 1985
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj9WY0ljNpo
car repairs in 1984
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgxRyZ6KfYY
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29/11/2025

November 29, 2005 - 2025: 20 years of: One Way Ticket To Hell… And Back.

Permission to rock: granted !

During 2004-05's revival swing, hardstuff was flying off the shelves. Silent for too many years, Great Britain's hottest ticket now shun bright lights on stage, hail The Darkness.

Snort it !

The Gates are now open for business, here's your "One Way Ticket". Rocket fuel runs wild inside rocknroll's veins with "Knockers", while the AC/DC-ish "Is It Just Me ?" wonders. The widen pupils of "Hazel Eyes" bursts, as more electrified blood makes all the "Girlfriend"s dance ...every inch of 'em ...keytar included.

A crude rock-party breaks all the rules of decency, in some "English Country Garden", while the arenarock anthem "Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time" paint the Forums of the globe.

2003's Permission To Land CD rocked and now they rocked harder. Hardrocknroll is here to stay and THE DARKNESS supplies the lovely goods. Sadly the excesses took a tool and Justin Hawkins's rehab-vacation would split the band. But like any monster, our rocknroll Godzilla would bounce back later stronger and louder, with 2012's Hot Cakes CD.
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One Way Ticket To Hell = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enJiLuH9YUA
Is It Just Me ? = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAejxjC_PBs
Girlfriend = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4VMuQQPKp4
One Way Ticket To Hell… And Back = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1FsNxDrsEg&list=OLAK5uy_l2V-Ux6P5WwKCzy9nr25gWTXiVLulmIeI
Interview in 2006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMSU-rvtgMQ
Live Rock In Rio Lisbon in 2006
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18uE3KwCODg
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26/11/2025

November 26, 1990 - 2025: 35 years of: Dark Recollections.

The seed for a new regime.

It's 1990, deathmetal was on the map and Sweden was the focal point. A raw tone chews death and spits it out ...a total CARNAGE.

A carneous cacoffiny, from the hard rockin' "Dark Recollections" to the massacra of "Torn Apart". A violent ecstasy bursts on "Infestation Of Evil", while the hemophiliac "Deranged From Blood" lays the foundation for this new sub-genre of extreme.

Already defunct by 1990, CARNAGE's impact on the scene is imminent. From the production to the frontal attack, even with a short life-span, the engraved tombstones are proofs of their immortal signature on the Scandinavian scene.

Out of the ashes of CARNAGE, elements of the dissolved unit would spring back into the following cult:
- Matti, David and Fred would merge into the massive killing capacity of DISMEMBER.
- led-virtuoso Michael would rot with England's CARCASS.
- Johnny would become, for a very short-time, singer for ENTOMBED.
- and ex-singer Johan would later bounce back into action, with the first incarnation of ARCH ENEMY.

The seed is sown, hail Swedish Death-Metal ...a true carnage.
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Dark Recollections = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-0Hy7_WDDk&list=OLAK5uy_nKIPUxDkKFhvTu__NYBFtHxc2xM40SbI8
Live in Stockhom in 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeV71mzhPdk
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22/11/2025

November 1990 - 2025: 35 years of: Iced Earth.

The other shade of Tampa.

Florida's deathmetal counterpart, aside from SAVATAGE. Building on the legacy of Eurometal giants, a new American trooper shall lit the scene. Hell froze over ...here's the power of: ICED EARTH.

The Force is strong, as the band's title-track for "Iced Earth" and "Written On The Walls" ravage with pride. Clever licks and strong metal is fully present on the menacing "Funeral" and the equivalently dark "Colors", while the intricate "Life And Death" treks in between both states.

After 1989's well received Enter The Realm demo, a contract was sealed with upcoming Century Media Records and the burnt offerings came to fruition. During America's powermetal-less era, ICED EARTH's pure creation shall shine through the 90s drought. A heavymetal purgatory.

Second album, second singer, the band shall step-up the game with 1991's Night Of The Stormrider CD.
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Iced Earth = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPUbJ2iMppw&list=PLL44kuYYS8ymg8hfnikiO5xHoEBmXV-f6
Video in 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOdV-Gg75lk
Interview in 1991
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfnqBTk9oUw
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