Blog – Gimme Radio

Apr 22, 2026

Top 10 Tours We're Circling on the 2026 Calendar

The calendar's already bleeding ink. Between farewell runs that might actually be farewell runs, reunion announcements nobody saw coming, and a few heritage acts who...

Apr 22, 2026

Turnstile Makes History: The First Ever Tiny Desk Stage Dive

Turnstile Makes History: The First Ever Tiny Desk Stage Dive Tiny Desk concerts are known for their intimate energy and stripped-down performances. They also happen...

Apr 22, 2026

Top 5 Best '80s Rock Records!

#5 Ozzy Osbourne - THE ULTIMATE SIN Ozzy's fourth studio album effort came with some incredibly heaving tracks and mind-melting guitar work courtesy of...

Apr 22, 2026

Grave Convulsions episode 136: And you don’t stop….

August 8, 2024 August 2023: MY MIC SOUNDS NICE! The headset microphone era of Grave Convulsions is OVER and we are verging on...

Apr 22, 2026

Coop’s Top Ten American Metal Albums

Shop our full 4th of July collection! When it comes to thunderous drums, razor blade guitars, and screams hellbent on curdling blood, nowhere has...

Apr 22, 2026

RETRO REVIEW: Cerebral Rot’s Excretion of Mortality

Excretion of Mortality is our July Vinyl Club album of the month! Sign up today! Metal vocals exist on multiple axes: clean to harsh,...

Apr 22, 2026

Brown Acid: Gimme Metal Vinyl Club Edition

In 2015, the world was introduced to Brown Acid: The First Trip. Fast forward to 4/20/2024, there have been eighteen trips, each one a...

Apr 22, 2026

Ghosts of Metal Past: May

Big & Notable 1970s Releases! Rainbow - RISING (17 May 1976) - Get it here! Featuring only Ritchie Blackmore & Ronnie James Dio from...

Apr 22, 2026

Grave Convulsions Episode 128 (From the Gimme Metal Archives)

Early February, 2023. I just looked up what was going on in the world at the time because I couldn’t remember. We had war, environmental...

Apr 22, 2026

GMVC August: Ghoul's Splatterthrash

July 10, 2024 Hailing from the land of Creepsylvania (fine, they’re actually from Oakland, California), the maniacs from Ghoul have been ripping & shredding the...

Apr 22, 2026

Fang's Top Albums of 2024 (So Far!)

July 25, 2024 Bruce Dickinson - THE MANDRAKE PROJECT Okay, I should say I was very skeptical about THE MANDRAKE PROJECT ever since "Afterglow of...

Apr 22, 2026

Kevin Diers - 5 Things I'm looking forward to in 2024

With so much awesome music at our fingertips, we are truly living in a time of infinite possibilities for fans of underground metal....

Apr 22, 2026

Ghosts of Metal Past: April

Big & notable 1970 releases! Judas Priest - SIN AFTER SIN (8 April 1977) - Get it here Their third LP,...

Apr 22, 2026

Haiku on Fire: Celebrating the return of the Vinyl Club and High on Fire’s Cometh the Storm

You’ve probably heard already, but we’ll shout it all-caps style so everyone knows: THE GIMME METAL VINYL CLUB IS BACK! Yes, our mighty monthly tradition...

Apr 22, 2026

“Who Killed Marilyn?” and Beyond: The Glenn Danzig Songbook

In New Jersey, where I’m from, Bruce Springsteen is considered to be the musical voice of the state, the songwriter who captures its working-class...

Apr 22, 2026

New Release Review: Hulder – Verses in Oath (20 Buck Spin)

Pre-order HERE! Pre-order on limited Bone & Gold Merge vinyl! If you look back with fondness at the symphonic black metal that rose to prominence...

Apr 22, 2026

Ghosts of Metal Past: February

February might be the shortest month but it definitely has not been in short supply of sick metal releases throughout the years. Back when metal was...

Apr 22, 2026

Back in Black: The Return of Gimme

Almost 8 months after Gimme’s demise (which left a hole in the heart of the metal community), Gimme rises from ashes. We are excited...

Apr 22, 2026

Gimme’s Community Lives On

Rhymes Records in New Haven was my first real record store. It was located on the second story above an art-house, independent movie theater, the York...