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Enslaved makes black metal music, while Norwegian political party leader Lars Sponheim raises sheep. Sponheim has been making a lot of noise about declaring...

This fast-forward flip through Van Halen's entire 10/16/07 show in Chicago is the best-looking and best-sounding YouTube evidence of what's going on out there....

While getting the manuscript for Daniel Ekeroth's Swedish Death Metal ready for print, I picked up a good copy of Obscurity's 2nd demo, "Damnation's...

Kreepsville Industries is posting a series of hacker packages for fictional gruesome breakfast cereals. Check out Buffalo Chips featuring a real turd, Zombie Guts...

"I am illigal immigrant. I come on a boat from Canada. Like Cristoph Colomb 4 new life I worked 3 day with Italian controctor...

This is rad!

Now available in GREEN: Japanese sculpture toys inspired by Shane Embury of Napalm Death here. "I am pretty honored to have a toy figure...

Qu'est-ce qui ce passe!? First, a goat-worshipping member of Sunn moves to France. Then in June, a wave of church desecrations and burnings in...

Black metal parodies are never funny..oh wait, this one is! Thanks PatD!

Van Halen's battles with parking lot T-shirt bootleggers are legendary -- in fact, during the peak of the '80s Roth era, when the band...

I've spent some time with Ronnie James Dio, and he's as gracious and gentlemanly an elder statesman as metal could hope to have. Case...

Not many people know this, because the launch date is still several months away, but I've started a small publishing company, and the second...

This very impressive Celtic Frost bro-down from September 2006 courtesy of Reed St. Mark's MySpace page. LINK

Like I've been saying for a while, the current Van Halen tour is not a reunion, it's a reunification between Roth and the Van...

Here's a rollicking tape by a likeable British act from the late 1980s. Not to be confused with the Italian Deathwish, this quartet thrashes...

What beats all the Halo-inspired Master-whatever Halloween costumes in the works? I wrote a short piece in this month's Popular Mechanics about MIT's efforts...

Badly overdubbed parodies of guitar gods flubbing their solos have existed on YouTube for a while now -- the clam-handed Yngwie Malmsteen "lesson" is...

Wheelchair-bound death metal survivor Jeff Becerra of Possessed, onstage in Europe 2007. Thanks: Metal-Experience.com

Before the drum machines, remixes, and guest appearances, Prong was a very lonely metalcore trio from the Lower East Side of New York. Forget...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qU7dzXNYzs There they are circa September 2007 -- the guy on bass is named Wolfgang Van Halen. Like any self-respecting metalhead, I have lots of hobbies...