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Here's my rough attempt to capture the spectacle of 42,000 Iron Maiden fans streaming into Sarsfield stadium in Buenos Aires, Argentina, before losing their minds on March 28. Click that image for the full...

Feast your eyes on the Stew of True Doom, a molten metal masterpiece concocted by Karl Simon of the powerful Indy warlords The Gates of Slumber. Annick "the Morbid Chef" Giroux of Canada's mighty...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8yVn2wyCdU I've already sold my ticket for next week's Throbbing Gristle show at the Masonic Temple in Brooklyn, their first ever in New York, because I'm going to see and support my longtime friend and...

When I was 14 I had it all — a weekly metal radio show on a college radio station that reached Rochester, Syracuse, and Ithaca (don't discount Ithaca, S.O.D. were recording there!); an excellent...

Here's a rip from the Sirius live stream of my slickly-produced July 19, 2008 interview with singer Tomas Lindberg and guitarist Martin Larsson of AT THE GATES. This has been floating around the...

7MAYrF1PDks UNICEF must have consulted Discharge before commissioning this anti-bombing TV spot starring the Smurfs. Thanks, Sarah!

I've been doing a lot more talking and book publishing lately than demo posting, I'll admit. That's about to change. But tomorrow's reserved for talk. Dee Snider and his Fangoria Radio co-host Debbie Rochon (a...

I'm working on a metal logos book with the mighty Mark Riddick, and he turned me onto this insanesterpiece, the logo for Hermaphrodite Jihad by Lou Rusconi. Riddick has never heard the band, and...

The infamous Blacktask EP. I saw this band at the Penny Arcade in Rochester, NY in October 1985. How about you?

rnx7HP9OMtM Can you handle a YouTube video preview of Fox's Osbournes: Reloaded, the variety show starring Rosie O'Donnell the cast of MTV's first, most successful, and most totally real reality show to date? Depends how...

Saludos metaleros! Bazillion Points Publishing is putting out the call to capable Spanish translators to whip into shape a version espanol of Decibel chief Albert Mudrian's book Choosing Death: The Improbable History...

In his Noise Pollution blog for the Owensboro, KY, Messenger-Inquirer, reporter Jim Mayse queries Bazillion Points author Jeff Wagner about his upcoming book Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal. “I started following those...

My friend Tea from VIS The Thunderbirds alerted me to the arrival of the Croatian edition of Sound of the Beast -- or Urlik Zvijeri, as it's known in Croatia. I love that Great Britain...

"Infernal Death was the best-kept secret in the metal scene for years. Too bad all of the band members are dead now. Email me for more details." Or at least, so says the parked web...

Waaaay ahead of publication, Decibel profiles Metalion author Jon Kristiansen in its March 2009 issue about his upcoming Slayer Mag book: "I mostly did everything myself...and it's always done by scissors and glue...Always waiting for...

Ah, the brotherly power of vodka. So James Hetfield, long before he became a reformed old codger, is on the left drunkenly pretending to play a lead guitar solo. So who's the guy on...

Not-so-secret passage leading to the rock and roll hall of fame; good job to Metallica, and by proxy Diamond Head, Holocaust, Killing Joke, Budgie, and the Misfits--to name a few. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdqwR0ISPDE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJB7RcCKhoI&hl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CrMlAe0cfQ&hl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95pvK0_wGb8&hl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoSKaN7FqE4&hl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ5MQI8Boes&hl

jHKsH7a3Fzk On January 20, 1969, Led Zeppelin played at the Wheaton Youth Center in the Maryland suburbs north of Washington, DC. At least, so claims filmmaker Jeff Krulik of Heavy Metal Parking Lot fame, and...

I've been listening to a lot of Diamond Head and NWOBHM singles lately, maybe that's why this molten metal 1985 demo from Connecticut's Demonax sounds so crisp and nuanced. Demonax play innocent metal for...

Alakazam! Demo cassettes all of a sudden appear futuristic.