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Wow, Chthonic has a weird new look. Did the Taiwanese black metal band play a show with Australia's furnitureheads Portal or something? Just reminds...
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Metal, She Signified
As the latest in our ongoing series of people engaging in metal behavior before heavy metal was invented (see recent post of Velvet Underground in grim corpse paint in the mid-1960s), here's a gaggle of gals experimenting with cryptic hand gestures in North Berkeley
ROOTS Megadeth Speed Session | on SiriusXM
Rattle yer head w/live & album tracks, plus tributes by Ghoul, Lamb of God, Arch Enemy, Nightwish, Black Dahlia Murder and ex Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman.
Bazillion Points Revives Albert Mudrian’s CHOOSING DEATH; Death Metal & Grindcore History Exhumed in...
Publishers Weekly: "Mudrian, editor-in-chief of Decibel magazine, condenses painstaking and lengthy interviews to create this informative history of death metal."
SENSATIONSFILMS: Thriller Gets Historic Stockholm Screening
Bazillion Points Books, the Swedish Film Institute, and author Daniel Ekeroth (Swedish Death Metal, Swedish Sensationsfilms) got the ball rolling for the first-ever uncut...
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