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...
When Ronnie Dio Attacks
I've spent some time with Ronnie James Dio, and he's as gracious and gentlemanly an elder statesman as metal could hope to have. Case in point: Here he is out on a street corner...
Kazjurol: Bonded By Love = Total Fagersta
Not many people know this, because the launch date is still several months away, but I've started a small publishing company, and the second title will be the North American edition of Insision bassist...
Whatever Happened to S.O.D.?
This very impressive Celtic Frost bro-down from September 2006 courtesy of Reed St. Mark's MySpace page. LINK
Van Halen IV
Like I've been saying for a while, the current Van Halen tour is not a reunion, it's a reunification between Roth and the Van Halens, and a rejuvenation thanks to the arrival of the...
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...
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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...
