Randy Holden
Full Album Premiere: Randy Holden – ‘Population III’
June 16, 2022 Greg Pratt
Get your proto-metal on with this exclusive full-album premiere of Randy Holden
Fight Fire With Fire: ‘Vincebus Eruptum’ vs. ‘Population II’
August 26, 2021 Greg Pratt
For this Fight Fire With Fire installment, we go proto-metal and pit Blue Cheer and their 1968 debut Vincebus Eruptum, against the more obscure Randy Holden and his Population II.
Extreme Archaeology: Primitive Origins’ Top Five Proto-Metal Discoveries of 2019
December 12, 2019 Greg Pratt
Remembering the five best, and heaviest, proto-metal songs we discussed in Primitive Origins this year.
Primitive Origins: Randy Holden’s “Population II”
August 8, 2019 Greg Pratt
Re-examining how Randy Holden foreshadowed Eyehategod’s down and dirty sludge in 1969 on Population II.