Fred Phillips’ look back at the Best of 2024 in metal and hard rock includes albums from Judas Priest, Bruce Dickinson, Kittie, Sebastian Bach and others.

While I’ve quite enjoyed most of Sebastian Bach’s solo records, and ‘Give ‘Em Hell’ is no exception, I voice the same annoyance with each one.

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I can guarantee that this list will be the first-ever mention of several of these bands on Something Else!, but you might find something worth checking out.

Sebastian Bach’s ‘Kicking and Screaming’ falls in sound somewhere between Skid Row’s ‘Slave to the Grind’ and ‘Subhuman Race,’ and that’s a very good thing