Exploring Rock's Hidden Gems - The power of B-Side tracks

  My Heart Will Go On (The B-Side) A Titanic Love Story Told Through Rock’s Hidden Tracks They met where most love stories don’t — just off to the side. Not centre stage. Not under the spotlight. Somewhere between Side A and Side B, where the deep cuts live. He believed the best songs were the ones you had to find. She liked a good chorus, something familiar, something safe. They locked eyes as the ship pulled away — the band tuning up below deck, far from the grand ballroom. This wasn’t a love story meant to top the charts. This was a B-side romance. The Band Played On (And No One Requested These Songs) As the ship sailed, the music grew stranger, braver, more emotional. These weren’t songs built for radio rotation or greatest-hits compilations. They were confessions. Experiments. Cracks in the armour. Love, like B-sides, doesn’t announce itself loudly. It sneaks in when you’re not looking. Below deck, the band struck up something heavier. 1. Black Sabbath – “Laguna Sunrise” A rar...

  Bad Boys, Ballads, and the Blues:  When Heavy Bands Took the Long Way Home Rock history loves its bad boys. The volume merchants. The chaos-makers. The bands that built their reputations on aggression, speed, and noise. But scratch beneath the surface — flip the record over — and you’ll often find something else entirely. A ballad. A blues-soaked lament. A B-side that whispers where the A-side screams. This is the quiet truth of heavy music: even the hardest bands bleed. The Myth of the One-Dimensional Heavy Band There’s a lazy assumption that bands known for brutality can only operate in one emotional register. Loud. Fast. Angry. End of story. But that myth falls apart the moment you start digging into B-sides, bonus tracks, and deep cuts — the places where bands stop performing for the pit and start writing for themselves. These songs rarely make radio. They don’t headline playlists. They live in the margins. And that’s exactly why they matter. Slipknot: Beneath the Mask S...

  Love Letters in Loud Volume: When Bands Around the World Cover the Songs They Love “ Love isn’t always soft. Sometimes it’s loud, distorted, and played at full volume.” February usually arrives wrapped in clichés — roses, slow dances, predictable playlists. But rock music has always expressed love differently. Not with whispers, but with amplifiers. Not with perfection, but with passion. And sometimes, the purest expression of that love isn’t an original song at all — it’s a cover. When a band chooses to reinterpret a legendary track, they’re doing something brave. They’re stepping into sacred territory. They’re saying: this song shaped us — now let us show you how. To kick off the month of love, here are six bands from around the world paying tribute to the music that raised them — not by copying it, but by rewriting it in their own language. These aren’t novelty covers. These are love letters in loud volume. 1. Nemophila (Japan) – “Master of Puppets” (Metallica) The spark that ...

  Saxon – Love Without Ballads “ And the bands played on.” February is supposed to be about love. Roses. Choruses. Predictable sentiment. Saxon never played that game. So it feels only right that Saxon opens our new monthly series — One Band Per Month — not with a ballad, but with something far more honest: love that survives noise, distance, time, and defiance. This series isn’t about ranking bands or rewriting history. It’s about honouring them — for who they were, who they are, and why they still matter. And Saxon matter because they never pretended to be anything other than what they were. Saxon Didn’t Write Love Songs — They Lived Them Saxon’s catalogue isn’t filled with candlelit choruses or romantic fantasy. Instead, their songs speak to: loyalty over lust endurance over infatuation brotherhood over heartbreak Their version of love is forged on the road, tested by time, and kept alive by belief. And that makes it real. Love as Obsession: When Belief Goes Too Far “Dallas 1 PM...