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Taking advantage of the occasion of the new Iron Man movie, The Boston Globe has posted an awesome long-form multimedia inquest into the origins...

Thanks to Neil Daniels for posting a brief, to-the-point interview with me about my Van Halen book at GetReadyToRock.com. Somehow, he broke me...

Back in the day, there wasn't enough Slayer to go around, so a few enterprising thrashers worked out how to whip up a batch...

So you figured out the faces in Who Are You? #1 and #2. Next in our ongoing series of semi-embarrassing early photos of classic...

From the A-Z band biography reference section in Swedish Death Metal: "SPORTLOV -- The natural end result of the black metal movement. In 2000 some...

"Corpse paint on shirt...corpse paint on face," writes Pat D. It is a little uncanny, like a hall of mirrors. Give it a...

If you've ever played World of Warcraft (or any other sword and magic role-playing game), or listened to Manowar (or any other sword and...

Though this tape has been the source of so much fun and fascination over the years, I have little to say about Machine Dog's...

"Jump," Ft. Lauderdale train wreck--Roth and backing keyboard track are fine, but is Eddie playing Merzbow?, 2/20/08 Word on the streets of Los Angeles...

I guess if anybody hates Christianity more than Glen Benton, it's al-Qaeda. My former patrons (briefly) over at Mother Jones have compiled a streaming...

Okay, Job for a Cowboy are now officially unemployed--Spongebob can dry up and blow away. This Sesame Street edit by YouTube user HATW1R3 is...

The demo digitization program has slowed a little lately while I prepare the the US edition of Daniel Ekeroth's outstanding Swedish Death Metal for...

I have nothing to say here that wouldn't be a dead giveaway. The two guys on the right are still in this band, and...

This mystery arrived in my mailbox today. I thought the dude in middle with the nasty homemade codpiece might be "Evil Chuck" Schuldiner circa...

Thanks to recently-reactivated At the Gates drummer Adrian Erlandsson (also ex-Cradle of Filth) for posting three great demo songs recorded in two days in...

Yippee for Slayer, they made King Diamond, Machine Head, As I Lay Dying, and Shadows Fall eat hot wet mud tonight by taking home...

This "heavy" 1972 session by proto-metal bangers Atomic Rooster is legendary because replacement singer Chris Farlowe casually chomps a sandwich throughout the duration of...

...Guitar World and MacWorld, anyway. You're looking at PocketGuitar, a six-string emulator for iPhone and iPod touch, and it sure looks to me like...

Thanks to everybody who sent over the stripped DLR vocal from "Runnin' With the Devil" this week. All of you. Thanks. And you and...

Though they surfaced during a time when the grindcore term was just beginning to be tossed around, suburban L.A. act Malicious Grind was a...