Nihilist -> Entombed -> The Hellacopters -> Death Breath -> The Solution
Larvaes and germs, we have The Solution, the latest project of Nicke Andersson, one of the main originators of Swedish death metal (and cover artist of the Swedish Death Metal book). This dude keeps...
Demolition Hammer: Upload the Hammers!
By 1988, thrash metal was already at peak cruising altitude. Reign in Blood and Master of Puppets were widespread, all the ragers had signed to majors, and every old school metal band from AC/DC...
88 BoaDrum NYC Rehearsal
Wowwowpowpow. Tonight, 8/8/08, at 8:08pm, at the end of North 8th Street, the Brooklyn wing of the Boredoms' cosmic 88BoaDrum event will flap. Basically, this is 88 drummers playing full drum kits in unison...
Secrets of Swedish Death Metal Revealed
Here Daniel Ekeroth, author of the massive Swedish Death Metal book (not to mention bassist of TYRANT and INSISION), unleashes a short session explaining the classic Swedish death metal guitar sound invented by Leif...
Excitering News
I don't live in Ottawa, so this is weird. A couple weeks ago I was marching up Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, sending hordes of summer tourists flying with my huge stride and...
The Gear of Satan
Demolition Hammer's excellent "Skull Fracturing Nightmare" sits here ready for rescue, but I've been battling my infernal analog-digital converter for over a month now. Stupid Yamaha. The box is outstanding, but the software completely...
When Lemmy Dreams, He Dreams of Shadows
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My dad doesn't historically have the coolest taste in music, but a funny thing happened when he came to New York last year for a visit. I took him up to Sirius for a...
Swedish Death Metal Book Trailer
The book is always better than the YouTube, but with a few weeks to go before Daniel Ekeroth's Swedish Death Metal book is available, at least this video preview offers a quick fix.
"He Likes My Shirt!"
Just for you, a photo of the spiffy Burzum shirt worn by a gay German dude getting off the subway in Brooklyn after the gay pride parade in New York last weekend. No, he...
Sacrifice: Cut off head! Cut off head! Cut off Head!
Here's a juicy bone plucked from the death/thrash/black metal cauldron of 1985. Toronto quartet Sacrifice were nearly as fast and lethal as any other band on the planet when they spewed forth this highly...
Swedish Death Metal Book Update
Man does not live by blog alone, and in fact the monster project for the past six months has been getting all the pieces in place to publish SWEDISH DEATH METAL by Daniel Ekeroth...
Live Strong, Go See Iron Maiden
Check it out: the two heads on the right of this row of people being astonished by Iron Maiden at Madison Square Garden belong to Kate Hudson and Lance Armstrong. No joke. They made...
Who Are You? #5
Well? This one is either a cinch, or impossible, depending on whether or not you've heard the news. Who is this band? From where are they from? I have to say, the bass player...
Master of Poets
So after kicking back and watching the disappointingly short French Open men's tennis finals last Sunday , I fired up some YouTube footage of Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe's insane Wimbledon epic battle in...
Metamorphose Encore
If you're into the classic French heavy metal band Sortilège, chances are you might also enjoy a bottle of the Canadian maple syrup whiskey that shares the name.
Grim and Big Mac-bitten Kingdoms
Here's an outtake photo of Eddie Van Halen from Everybody Wants Some. Contact Redferns for your own licensing needs. For the uninitiated, this looks like Detroit, MI, or Rochester, NY, or Niagara Falls --...
Born to Die in the D-Beat
I'm putting together a D-beat episode of my Bloody Roots metal history show for Sirius, and simultaneously we're approaching the anniversary of the booze and pills overdose death of Disclose frontman/guitarist Kawakami. Here's what...
Sindrome: Unharvested Midwestern Thrash
In the heat of the late 1980s thrash demo trading fever, yes, it was possible to have a super-group of members from bands that were little more than demo acts themselves. Chicago area deathly...
The Estradablog Has Landed
I was lucky to meet Kevin Estrada while writing my Van Halen book, Everybody Wants Some. A lifelong devotee of the band, he had been photographing them since age 12. Weaned on Van Halen,...
Bang Bang Meditation: Visualize a Slayer Party
The pressure is building already, and it's so early in the day. You feel the twitch in your temples. Why won't the phone stop ringing? How are you going to finish everything in time?...
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