Welcome to Heavy Metal Overload aka HMO.
HMO is written and managed solely by Scott Carson. I mainly cover metal and classic rock but anything goes.
I’ve tried loads of different approaches over the years but I now focus strictly on posts about individual songs and occasional digest posts where I can talk about other stuff: things I’ve bought, news, obituaries etc…
You can check a full index of the songs that I have written about here.
As well as the main HMO site, there is also an HMO Facebook page where I post various collection stuff, news stuff… whatever takes my fancy. But the main site will remain song posts and the digests.
All copyrighted material used at this website is considered “fair use” for the purposes of criticism. If you are copyright holder of material used on this website and disagree with my assessment that it constitutes “fair use” then please contact me using the form below.
REVIEW POLICY: As I’m just posting about songs and focussing on music from my own collection, I’m not currently accepting submissions for review. Sorry.
HEAVY METAL OVERLOAD 
Thanks for stopping by my blog. Glad you’ve enjoyed it enough to subscribe. I like what you’re doing here as well. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to reading about your musical discoveries (and re-discoveries).
Cheers,
Rich
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Downloading is just not good enough, especially if you love album art. Sometimes I buy LPs just because the art is bigger. I have a large collection of Yes LPs which I bought partially because I love Roger Dean paintings. Jethro Tull’s Thick as a Brick LP folds out like a newspaper with several pages. It’s pretty amazing.
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I’ve bought LPs for that reason too. I bought Yessongs recently and it’s got a gorgeous big foldout cover. The 1st King Crimson album too. Love the art on that. I like having the physical copies too so I can flick through them for inspiration.
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Becoming a discerning consumer is a noble pursuit indeed. And an especially tricky one, given the slippery slope of music. Once you like one band, they lead you to another, and soon you have a whole room full of albums that are all awesome in some way, all important…
I commend you on your 2013 pursuit, as well, and I wish you luck with it. But I have a question: Assuming you are successful in your pursuit of halving your spending, on what will you spend the saved money? Perhaps an investment for your old age, or a trip with your lovely lady, or… what have you chosen or what will you choose to do with the money you save?
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I don’t have any plans for the money I (hopefully) save… just to have savings for once would be nice! But I’d say trips with the lovely lady are always a good idea… and I’m sure she’d agree!
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Having savings, in this economic climate! You do aim high, my man!
I can guarantee that your lovely lady would enjoy a trip or two. And so would you!
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What have you done to the squirrel. I’m not following you anymore unless you reinstate him immediately!
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He asked to be removed! Couldn’t pop out to Queens Park for nuts anymore without getting mobbed.
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Hmm, I’m not big on change. I’m sure I’ll get over it by 2019 though.
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Hopefully! You’re also due to get over Dylan going electric in 2016 and Metallica cutting their hair in 2017.
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Dylan did what?!!!!!!
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Hey! I tagged you for the In Thy Future Challenge on the KMA.
To find out more, click here: https://keepsmealive.wordpress.com/2015/08/26/in-thy-future-challenge/
Have fun!
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Hi HMO,
I’ve nominated you for the Liebster Award! You can pick it up here: https://danicapiche.wordpress.com/2015/11/07/liebster-award-thank-you/
I hope that you’ll enjoy the award although there is no pressure to participate. 🙂
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Thanks Danica! Much appreciated. Scott (HMO)
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HI Scott! I come bearing gifts! I’ve nominated you for The Blogger Recognition Award — The Music Edition.
You can pick it up here: https://danicapiche.wordpress.com/2016/01/29/blogger-recognition-award-thank-you-the-music-edition/
If you’re unable to accept for any reason please accept this as a gesture of my appreciation.
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Hi Danica, thanks for the nomination! I won’t be able to participate/accept but I really appreciate the gesture. Hope you’re well!
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I have nominated you for the Versatile Bloggers Award through my Peaceful Rampage blog. https://peacefulrampage.wordpress.com/2016/09/29/the-versatile-bloggers-award/
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I have nominated you for the Versatile Bloggers Award via my Peaceful Rampage Blog. https://peacefulrampage.wordpress.com/2016/09/29/the-versatile-bloggers-award/
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Cheers for the nomination! I don’t have the time to participate but thank, and I didn’t know you had another blog so I’ll be following that pronto.
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Thanks
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What an ace blog you have.
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Thank you! And your blog is fantastic!
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Thank you for that compliment. You’re welcome on there any time.
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I’ve nominated you for the Liebster Award. It looks like you’ve gotten a few of these.
https://tomsin83.wordpress.com/2016/11/20/liebster-award/
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Hi Zack. Thanks for this. I don’t have time to participate but cheers for the nod. Much appreciated!
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No problem man. I just thought it was a fun thing to do and wanted to pass it along. Well, really it’s like a chain letter and I would have bad luck if I didn’t pass it along.
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always enjoy the blog Scott, but was surprised, nay shocked, to see that you have yet to make any mention of Jap all-female quintet ‘Lovebites’ on your blog – an amazingly good ‘new’ metal band..album sampler and other vids on my blog
https://falkeeinsrock.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/japanese-all-female-hm-sensations.html
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Thanks for stopping by and for the kind words. Nope, they are totally new to me. But I’ll be sure to check them out. Thanks!
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Hello,
this is Iman from Chaos Descent,we are from Tehran/iran and we just released our second full-length album A New Clear Dawn online for free.
I was wondering if you guys accept submissions for review/promotion/interviews.
Here are the links to the band’s Bandcamp and SoundCloud.
Cheers
https://chaosdescentofficial.bandcamp.com/album/a-new-clear-dawn
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Hi Iman, Thanks for getting in touch. I’m not accepting submissions at the moment, I’m afraid.
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Just finished the second album off “The List”. Diamond Head : Lightning To The Nations. Yeah, I really like it. Will be giving these guys some more time. A 1980 release. I had no idea about this band. Good one HMO
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Glad you like it… Hard to refuse those riffs! Borrowed Time is another good album of theirs but they fizzled out pretty quickly.
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They caught my ear. I will put ‘Borrowed Time on “The HMO Master List”
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