Chthonic at Ozzfest Debut
The first free Ozzfest is today at White River Amphitheater in Seattle. Jose and Mario from Sirius Hard Attack are there handing out T-shirts and dodging water balloons. So is RockMyMonkey.com, who has already...
Cremains: Warriors of Ice, The Next Generation
One of the first futuristic necro-tribes spawned in the wake of Voivod's mid-80s ascent from Montreal, the thrash squad Cremains combined the Voivod vision with a chunky Crumbsuckers sensibility. A five-piece featuring two sets...
Hetfield or Hezbollah?
In honor of James Hetfield's alleged meet and greet with airport security officials in London, where the UK bombsniffers reportedly mistook his new Tom Waits-style weird beard for a religious statement, here's Jam Band...
Possessed: “Sounds Kinda Satanic.” “Well, it is!”
Possessed: "Sounds Kinda Satanic." "Well, it is!"
Shining Schuldiner
"Some of you might not know this, but we have a new record out on Combat Records. It's all about corrupt religion. This is the title track, this one's called 'Spiritual Healing.' All I'll...
Assassin: “Deathly Pain to Frau Krause”
I don't know who Frau Krause is, or Herr Keul or Frau Schultz, but they must be pretty horrible people to deserve wishes of "deathly pain" on the thanks list of this 1985 debut...
Forty Tons of Steel + Fire
The Serpent Mother is a 168-foot, 40-ton sculpture of steel and fire that shoots a multicolored 50-foot pillar of flame from its cute little egg. If you want to shock the shit out of...
Dead Horse: Death Hears This Dead Horse Demo
The Bang! Bang! demo rescue pile is tall and diverse, filled with early appearances of famous metal characters, integral puzzle pieces of dark history, and personal favorites that are just plain weird. And then...
"Metal Al Piso"
Jaime writes: "METAL AL PISO -- This is the expression that we use here, in Bogota, Colombia, to express that someone like me loves the Heavy Metal. I read the Spanish version of you...
Cyclone: Belgian Blurr
What's that thing hanging out in the middle of Cyclone's logo - a bloody disembodied foxtail? As this speed metal thresher worked its way across the fields of Belgium during the mid-1980s, I guess...
Everybody Wants Some
Sheeyit...it's finally happening. My Van Halen history, Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga, will be published in hardcover on August 24. That above is the first draft of the dust jacket, click it...
Medieval: Bid Your Balls Farewell!
The fine burgermeister of Good Bad Music has saved me some trouble by uploading "All Knobs to the Right," the legendary second demo by Michigan's finest purveyors of proto-metal garage sludge, Medieval. Belched out...
Quivering Evil Arabic Sideshow Geek
As CREEPY as this caged Middle Eastern crippled shaking ghost snake is, the sudden lurch into an ad for "6b6b.com" might be the worst part! What could that be, some kind of Satanic code?...
BLOODY ROOTS Presents: Demo-lition 3
This week's episode of BLOODY ROOTS, my weekly heavy metal history show on Sirius Hard Attack, is based entirely on demos digitized for this blog. Here's the playlist:
AT WAR - "Eat Lead" from EAT...
Accept: Hi-Dee-Demo-Hi-Da…
Just a quick note to point out that crazy Accept archive Schlared.com has posted the German juggernaut's 1982 production demos for Restless & Wild. What a great find! These are high-quality recordings, but even...
ICE AGE: Sugar and Spice, and Everything Ice
I'm putting together a Women in Metal episode of my Bloody Roots show for Sirius later this month, listening to lots of Gallhammer, Détente, Girlschool, and 13. So I guess I'm feeling extra-receptive to...
Go Directly to Superjail
Another guy named Christe who lives in my neighborhood is responsible for this unending spree of pain and violence, and it's soon to be offending lots of people on Adult Swim. If you can...
Death Metal Energy Drink?
Luckily I don't speak Spanish very well, so I don't understand the description of what Tormenta is supposed to do. Make the drinker vomit blood and retch profanities like a South American insulter of...
Incubus: Were They Morbid? Yes.
Of course this isn't the boy band Incubus, but it isn't the Louisiana act now known as Opprobrium, either. Briefly the scourge of Tampa, this demo is the product of ex-Morbid Angel members Sterling...
Devastation: A Re-Re-Creation of Ripping Death
Now here's a band whose head is screwed onto their legacy right. Devastation from Chicago didn't make as much headway as the Texas-based Slayer clones by the same name, but their nasty proto-death thrash...
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Exactly as the title sounds, Mike “McBeardo” McPadden's mighty HEAVY METAL MOVIES: Guitar Barbarians, Mutant Bimbos, & Cult Zombies Amok in the 666 Most...
