Sweet Sound of Guitar Pedal Cakes
I've heard of drooling over gear, but this is ridiculous. Click to see the Ibanez Tube Screamer and a DeArmond Square Wave, also in cake form. LINK
Rotting Corpse: The Original Rotting Cowboys From Hell
The fertile Texas metal scene has always been a tight-knit fraternity that welcomes every type of banger from Lone Star knuckleheads to brainy prairie visionaries. Take early Exodus/S.O.D.-style sick thrashers Rotting Corpse. Formed by...
Giant Fly Attacks Mount St. Helens
Blame global warming, blame the pesticide-laden sewage flowing from a nearby McDonald's, blame Godzilla if you want...all I know is a 100-yard housefly just flew out of the crater atop Mount St. Helens near...
They Say the Pen is Mightier Than the Sword
Here Tom Araya from Slayer's immortal 1985 tribute to the great Bob "Kick*Ass" Muldowney. I needed to see this clip again in light of Bob's recent tragic passing.
When Ronnie Met Ozzy
No love lost. At first I thought Dio was averting his eyes from Ozzy's paunchy nipples and mullet while they discuss this new-fangled thing called sushi, or maybe he sees a third Sabbath singer...
A Heavy Lather
And the first early-90s band from the Earache Records roster to use their name to sell soap is North Carolina's Confessor. How folksy! Pictured above is the manly type, and the band's official website...
Bob "Kick*Ass" Muldowney, RIP
Ulrich, Muldowney, and Zazula, circa 1984
Bob Muldowney, former editor of the pioneering independent metal magazine Kick*Ass Monthly, died Monday, November 5, 2007 after succumbing to heart muscle disease.
It's hard to call him simply a...
Vishnu Baby Goes Under the Knife
Laksmi Tatma is a cute 8-limbed Indian toddler apparently born on a day of celebration for the 8-limbed Hindu god Vishnu. Not surprisingly, she's widely considered a spiritual blessing, and a once-in-a-blue-deity phenomenon. Doctors...
Le Book Jolie Nouveau Est Arrivée
Salut France, Quebec, Belgium, New Orleans, Haiti et les Suisse-Romands -- the French translation of Sound of the Beast is finished and ready for release on Nov. 9, 2007. The book was delayed by...
Worshipping the Blue Devils
My old high school has redesigned its Blue Devil team mascot using sophisticated computer rendering (see above). If you run a small semi-bootleg record label and want to use the image for your Venom...
An Eye for an Eye, A Ewe for an Itune!
Enslaved makes black metal music, while Norwegian political party leader Lars Sponheim raises sheep. Sponheim has been making a lot of noise about declaring free downloads a civil right in Norway. So Enslaved took...
Big Rock 2007: The ADD Edition
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. Nevermind the 10-second dude-singing-in-car intro -- he earned it! This...
Obscurity: 1987, The Year Death Metal Killed
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 Pride," from 1987. I don't think the world could have...
100% USDA Grody in a Bowl
Kreepsville Industries is posting a series of hacker packages for fictional gruesome breakfast cereals. Check out Buffalo Chips featuring a real turd, Zombie Guts featuring regurgitated giblets, and Tinkles with its stinky red pee-pee...
"Lettre to Giuliani"
"I am illigal immigrant. I come on a boat from Canada. Like Cristoph Colomb 4 new life I worked 3 day with Italian controctor but he no pay me. I build houses 4 U...
GARGA DEATH GRIND KAIJU, Second Round
Now available in GREEN: Japanese sculpture toys inspired by Shane Embury of Napalm Death here. "I am pretty honored to have a toy figure made after me," Shane says. "That kind of thing doesn't...
Les Flames d’Enfer
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 Brittany in northwest France was traced to a heavy metal...
Somebody Get Me an Eye-Doctor!
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 still produced its own merchandise, they even made their own...
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