Accept: Hi-Dee-Demo-Hi-Da…
Just a quick note to point out that crazy Accept archive Schlared.com has posted the German juggernaut's 1982 production demos for Restless & Wild....
ICE AGE: Sugar and Spice, and Everything Ice
I'm putting together a Women in Metal episode of my Bloody Roots show for Sirius later this month, listening to lots of Gallhammer, Détente,...
Go Directly to Superjail
Another guy named Christe who lives in my neighborhood is responsible for this unending spree of pain and violence, and it's soon to be...
Death Metal Energy Drink?
Luckily I don't speak Spanish very well, so I don't understand the description of what Tormenta is supposed to do. Make the drinker vomit...
Incubus: Were They Morbid? Yes.
Of course this isn't the boy band Incubus, but it isn't the Louisiana act now known as Opprobrium, either. Briefly the scourge of Tampa,...
Devastation: A Re-Re-Creation of Ripping Death
Now here's a band whose head is screwed onto their legacy right. Devastation from Chicago didn't make as much headway as the Texas-based Slayer...
Pimping the Ride of the Valkyries
What the fukkin-fukkity-fukk-fukk? Cheery black metal Swedes get their Audi adjusted by crunk king Lil Jon.
LJ: "Where's your antenna?"
CBMS: "We went to the forest...
At War: (Without Satan)
If you ever wondered what Venom would have sounded like if they were gun-toting hillbilly beach bums from Virginia, then the trio At War...
Caught Between Heaven and Hell
If I owned a deli or a pizzeria, I would frame this photo and hang it on the wall. And I'd be wearing an...
Plotkin Calls His Metal Back
Righteous Pigs, Hellwitch, Excel, Casbah, Sadus, Wehrmacht, Attitude Adjustment...thanks to my friend the always-inspirational James Plotkin (Old Lady Drivers, Scorn, Khanate) for sending over...
Early Thrash Pics in GQ Germany
Judging by the the Deutsche edition of GQ, the pinnacle of men's style in Germany seems to be sweaty, sneering thrashers drooling beer from...
28 Blast Beats Later
Hard Attack listener Sage wrote me to request Goatwhore, and passed along a Flickr link to her hell-possessed eyeball. She's obviously infected with the...
Leviathan: Chris Barnes Before the Cough Drops
Amazing revelation time—I wanted to post this great 1987 deathly thrash demo by Leviathan, but the sparse packaging offered no details about the band....
Forced Entry: Seattle’s Best Thrash
The Pacific Northwest isn't known for being peppy, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that Seattle's best-known thrash metal export Forced Entry are the most...
Gratuitous Lordi Photo-Op
Eurovision winners/future Ozzfest heatstroke victims Lordi signing Pedon Meteli -- the Finnish version of Sound of the Beast -- as a gift for translator...
Mustaine: "My Eyes Are Watering"
Funny footage here from French TV of Dave Mustaine struggling to play "Hangar 18," Guitar Hero II version, for the first time.
"You are too...
Vultures Interfere with Corpse Pit
From the new Six Feet Under CD Reuters:
'Body farm' on hold due to vultures
A TEXAS university's plans for a site to study decomposing human...
Sacrilege: Before Commercialism
"You can copy this tape and its cover all you want and spread it around -- thanks, Strephon Taylor."
Okay! That's the handwritten message on...
Chainsaw: The Dawn of German Speed Metal
The first of at least six CHAINSAWs in the metal toolshed, this lot of German headbangers released two 4-song demo tapes in 1985 --...
Swiss Misters
In the name of sloppy, ruinous cavorting, I left my camera at home and went out to see Celtic Frost last night opening for...