What are you listening to right now?

[Blackleaf]

Iron Maiden - "Blood Brothers" (2000)

The Londoners are, of course, one of the world's most successful heavy metal bands

 

[Blackleaf]

Spinal Tap ft Elton John - "Stonehenge" (2025)

The hapless British heavy metal band are back with new music.

In reality, they are American actors capable of speaking with British accents, including the guy who voices several characters on The Simpsons.

The comedy movie Spinal Tap II is released in September.

 

[Blackleaf]

Jethro Tull - "Over Jerusalem" (2025)

Hailing from Blackpool, Lancashire - Britain's most popular seaside resort - and formed in 1967, the folk rock band are back with a new single.

 

[Blackleaf]

Slipknot - "Prosthetics"
(1999)

The masked Iowan heavy metallers have just released the demo for their 1999 song "Prosthetics"

 

[Blackleaf]

Iron Maiden - "Darkest Hour" (2021)

The song by the London heavy metallers pays tribute to Sir Winston Churchill and the British military and the British people as a whole for standing up to and defeating the Nazis during six years of immense bloodshed. At one point during World War II, Britain fought Nazi Germany alone.

 

[Blackleaf]

Lamb of God - "Children of the Grave" (2025)

Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, this is the band's cover of the 1971 Black Sabbath song.

Black Sabbath vocalist Ozzy Osbourne passed away on 22nd July.

 

[Blackleaf]

Pink Floyd - "Another Brick in the Wall" (1979)

 

[Blackleaf]

The Stone Roses - "Mersey Paradise"
(1989)

The great northern English cities of Liverpool and Manchester are renowned as not only the engine rooms which powered Great Britain in her heyday as being the richest and most powerful country on Earth but they're also renowned as being rivals - whether culturally, musically or, of course, footbally.

Nobody, apart from the band themselves, knows exactly what this 1989 song by the Manchester rockers is about, but it's thought to be a dig at Liverpool (which sits astride the River Mersey)...