Category: Metal Monday
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As recent Metal Monday posts show, I lately became a big fan of the Killer Dwarfs. I’ve loved their songs since first seeing the video for “Keep the Spirit Alive” waaaaayyy back in the winter of 1986-87. But it was seeing them live not just once, but twice, within a year in 2019 that got…
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For me, the Killer Dwarfs’ second live album, Live, No Guff! had two barriers to hurdle. First, I bought it at the concert where I first saw them live, when they and Kick Axe opened for Helix, and they were fantastic. How could a recording live up to that? Second, I wasn’t super keen on…
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While not technically a Killer Dwarfs album, Russ Dwarf’s Wireless is a worthy addition for any Dwarfs completist, featuring acoustic reworkings of many of their best-known songs. As with any album of acoustic versions, Wireless has its ups and down. (Points to Russ “Dwarf” Graham for calling it that instead of “unplugged,” which conjures up…
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On Start at One, the Killer Dwarfs wail like the early 1990s never went away. As far as the album is concerned, it’s true. The Dwarfs originally recorded Start at One (stylized as Start @ One) in 1993 with the same band lineup as Method to the Madness: Russ Graham on vocals, Darrell Millar on…
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Much (perhaps too much) has been written about the demise of heavy metal as a commercial force in the wake of grunge in the early 1990s. And certainly, a lot of 1980s cock-rock bands found themselves out in the cold in a post-Nirvana and Pearl Jam world. That was too bad for the Killer Dwarfs,…
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OK, this is just a short Metal Monday post, because it’s mid-December and I’m not hearing enough of Motörhead’s version of “Run Rudolph Run” on the radio. (Go figure.) I was also inspired by Angélique Jamail’s series, 12 Days of Seasonal Earworms You Need Right Now. (If you want today’s actual Metal Monday post, click…
