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?...
Deranged in Spain
Does the place where you hang out and listen to metal have a massive garish wall mural covering its entire fucking face, and make you feel like you live in a Sepultura or Iron...
Cop Shoot Cop: No Shoulder to Cry On
I'm pretty sure Cop Shoot Cop is the best band New York City ever produced, based on the caustic metal-scraping Headkick Facsimile record from 1988, and then the slick gallery of nightmares Ask Questions...
Waiting for the Wool
How brutally overconfident do you have to be to name your band Soggy? These French freaks come to NWOBHM power-riffing by way of an advanced Stooges fixation, complete with rubberized, writhing, and shirtless frontman....
History Lesson, Pt. III
Hey look, it's our founding fathers (and mother Kira Roessler), the ones that really matter. This excellent info-graphic charts the 11-year history and changing hairs of fundamental psychotic California hardcore band Black Flag, If...
Who Are You? #4
Nope, not David Bowie, and not Gary Numan, either. Here he comes now!
Who do you think? Close your eyes and comment...
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Fri 1/30, Los Angeles: David Markey Talks Punk/DIY Publishing at LA...
David Markey joins Ben Lee Ritchie Handler, Toby Mott, and Allison Wolfe in a discussion of the evolution and importance of DIY and independent publishing.
