Deathwish: Before Charles Bronson Came Deathwish
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 with a little bit of mood and poise. I get...
Dressing for Mars (A Clothes Encounter?)
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 to create a new space exploration suit for hopping, skipping,...
Ersatz Guitar God Goofs
Badly overdubbed parodies of guitar gods flubbing their solos have existed on YouTube for a while now -- the clam-handed Yngwie Malmsteen "lesson" is a classic. But the latest round of clips starring Metallica,...
Wheels of Pure Fukkin’ Steel
Wheelchair-bound death metal survivor Jeff Becerra of Possessed, onstage in Europe 2007.
Thanks: Metal-Experience.com
Prong: The Demon Thrashers of Stanton Street
Before the drum machines, remixes, and guest appearances, Prong was a very lonely metalcore trio from the Lower East Side of New York. Forget about Anthrax and Overkill -- theirs was the New York...
Van Halen: What to Expect
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 to suck up my extra energy, and for the last...
Soothsayer: Canadian Terrorist Training
Foiled again! But that's perfectly okay -- I'm happy whenever a band or label wakes up and takes care of their own demo tape treasures. Canada's proud maple leaf metal purveyors Galy Records have...
What’s Wrong With This Chick?
Oh, she was left to freeze to death on a sacrificial slab about 500 years ago atop Llullaillaco, a 22,000-foot mountain between what is now Argentina and Chile. Very eerie -- she and the...
Whiplash: Kings With the Axes
Looks like someone in Holland got wise and re-released Whiplash's 1984 Thunderstruk demo a few years back, and they're even keeping the CD available. I won't intrude on the legitimate reissue by digitizing the...
Out to Lunch
Greetings from the dungeons of Chateau de Chillon -- wish you were here? The demo cassette spools have stopped spinning for a couple weeks while I march up a few mountains and wear out...
Everybody Needs Some
Today is the release date for Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga, my new book. The early reviews look good, and the book is selling like hot cheeseburgers on Amazon and VanHalenStore.com, so...
Hater at Work
I'll try to keep this short. Use "Search Inside" on Amazon on the link below if you really want to get into it.
A weird and ideological new book with the breathless title In the...
Bullets Over Times Square
This is Megadeth's new boxset Warchest beaming down over Times Square NYC with 10-foot high bullets. I wrote the essay that wraps all 4 CDs and DVD together, so I'm basking in one bright...
Soviet "Metal" Band Pisses Everybody Off
Russian readers will see Sergei "Spider" Troltsky in his Hitler outfit and instantly recognize the most ludicrous hard rock act ever: Korrozia Metalla! As you can see, they were huge in the Russia, owing...
Van Halen Tour Press Conference Report
Kevin Estrada, the main photo contributor for Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga, just called on his way out of the Van Halen tour press conference in LA, where he was taking photos...
Van Halen Saga: Chapter One
My book Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga shipped from the factory this morning, so in a few days all my questions will be answered, along with everybody else's. I talked to Kevin...
Casbah: “Cheated by Pose, All Left Are Bones!”
If the name Casbah doesn't summon images of zealous Japanese thrashers dressed in camo fatigues, you aren't alone -- the band has become one of those scene UFOs that grizzled tape traders swear they...
Paul Stanley’s Lousy Paintings
Paul Stanley of Kiss is going through his "blue-fauvist-whee-this-is-fun" period as an artist. It's fun to watch a creative spirit grow and learn -- but maybe he should stick to painting Gene Simmons' faces...
Marooned With Maiden
I wrote an essay on Iron Maiden's Killers for the new book Marooned: The Next Generation of Desert Island Discs. It was easy to summon white-knuckle terror for my story -- returning to New...
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