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Classic visions by Watchtower, Voivod, Toxik, Coroner, and Blind Illusion join new strains from Black Fast, Dimesland, and Vexovoid.

A tsunami of good times out of its tanning oil bottle with an arm musclebound from flexing at the beach

Classic 1980s new wave hits by Devo, Depeche Mode, Wall of Voodoo, and Gary Numan, as devoured and metallized by Demolition Hammer, Metallica, Deadhorse, Vader, Firewind, Fear Factory, Converge, Celtic Frost, Fu Manchu, and others.

Just like the Tom Cruise and Shelley Long (and Jackie Earle Haley!) movie to which the song is attached, "Losin' It" rings with sexual desperation that only a night in Tijuana can cure.

Join us in praise of Haunt, Gaerea, Møl, Ripped to Shreds, Morbid Illusion, Witch Ripper, Vein, Primal Rite, Hinayana, Septic Tank, Born to Murder This World, and others.

Tim Chunks, Token Entry: "Underdog was positive and melodic, and their spectrum was so wide."

Tempted by nu metal, tapping into new technology, ignored by the mainstream, familiar titans seemed to reach the end of their ropes.

Welcome to a Walkman-melting, battery-sapping countdown of teen comedy soundtrack cuts assembled by Mike “McBeardo” McPadden, author of TEEN MOVIE HELL: A Crucible of...

The full range of metal glory past and present as captured by the live experience, with Black Sabbath, Sepultura, Morbid Angel, Slayer, and more.

"The first time we played out was a block party on Fifth Street across from the Ninth Precinct. We got the plug pulled on us after five songs."

While no sex or nudity occurs during this musical segment, if the MPAA had decided to give Spring Break an X rating based solely on Corinne Alphen's performance here, no one would have been surprised.

Clean vocals, galloping rhythms, and twin guitar ecstasy as delivered with conviction by Sorcerer, High Spirits, Night Demon, Visigoth, Eternal Champion, Argus, Metalian, A Sound of Thunder, Witchtower, and more!

Delve into new Possessed tracks, rarities, and tributes by heavy-hitting peers and proteges including Amon Amarth, Marduk, Cannibal Corpse, Death, and Cavalera Conspiracy.

A prime example of the grimy, dawn-of-the-decade moment when the Ramones somehow constituted “surf rock” along the coastlines of Long Island and the boardwalks of New Jersey

We'll go song by song, reveling in album tracks, Mayhem rarities, and tributes by colleagues and proteges including Emperor, Gehenna, Dark Funeral, Gorgoroth, Immortal, and Anaal Nathrakh.

Parris Mayhew, Cro-Mags: "The only New York hardcore band that ever really blew me away was the Crumbsuckers."

The song swells and pulsates and melts in the manner of what Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay do onboard the Pink Line.

Check out early entries from ten years back by Austere and Woods of Desolation, plus current offerings by the mournful and majestic Aquilus, Somnium Vox, Thrall, and more.

Their self-released eight-song 1983 7-inch EP is classic ripping hardcore punk, faster and more metallic than most NYHC bands at that time. 

Welcome, cable TV, VCR, and drive-in cinema fanatics, to a boombox-blasting, battery-sapping countdown of teen comedy soundtrack cuts assembled by Mike “McBeardo” McPadden, author...