Plotkin Calls His Metal Back
Righteous Pigs, Hellwitch, Excel, Casbah, Sadus, Wehrmacht, Attitude Adjustment...thanks to my friend the always-inspirational James Plotkin (Old Lady Drivers, Scorn, Khanate) for sending over this wishlist. The answer is YES, 90% of these demos...
Early Thrash Pics in GQ Germany
Judging by the the Deutsche edition of GQ, the pinnacle of men's style in Germany seems to be sweaty, sneering thrashers drooling beer from their snarling lips. They've published a handful of early '80s...
28 Blast Beats Later
Hard Attack listener Sage wrote me to request Goatwhore, and passed along a Flickr link to her hell-possessed eyeball. She's obviously infected with the Rage Virus, but some genetic mutation makes her a carrier...
Leviathan: Chris Barnes Before the Cough Drops
Amazing revelation time—I wanted to post this great 1987 deathly thrash demo by Leviathan, but the sparse packaging offered no details about the band. I did a little digging, and it turns out this...
Forced Entry: Seattle’s Best Thrash
The Pacific Northwest isn't known for being peppy, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that Seattle's best-known thrash metal export Forced Entry are the most joyless and workmenlike ragers ever to bark an open E-string....
Gratuitous Lordi Photo-Op
Eurovision winners/future Ozzfest heatstroke victims Lordi signing Pedon Meteli -- the Finnish version of Sound of the Beast -- as a gift for translator Jone Nikula.
Mustaine: "My Eyes Are Watering"
Funny footage here from French TV of Dave Mustaine struggling to play "Hangar 18," Guitar Hero II version, for the first time.
"You are too much concentrating," says the helpful host.
Watch for the shout-out to...
Vultures Interfere with Corpse Pit
From the new Six Feet Under CD Reuters:
'Body farm' on hold due to vultures
A TEXAS university's plans for a site to study decomposing human remains have been put on hold due to fears that...
Sacrilege: Before Commercialism
"You can copy this tape and its cover all you want and spread it around -- thanks, Strephon Taylor."
Okay! That's the handwritten message on this raging debut demo from El Cerrito's early thrashers Sacrilege...
Chainsaw: The Dawn of German Speed Metal
The first of at least six CHAINSAWs in the metal toolshed, this lot of German headbangers released two 4-song demo tapes in 1985 -- you're about to hear the first. Years before speed metal...
Swiss Misters
In the name of sloppy, ruinous cavorting, I left my camera at home and went out to see Celtic Frost last night opening for Type O Negative. So no photo collection to offer, just...
Dream Death: Never Thought Life Could Be So Damn Evil
In the annals of forgotten, unappreciated, worthy pioneers, Pittsburgh sludge lords Dream Death loom large. I took some heat after Sound of the Beast came out for naming their sole New Renaissance LP, Journey...
From the Rat’s Mouth: Overkill/Thrash History DVD
Original Overkill drummer/mastermind Rat Skates has produced a great DVD memoir, Born in the Basement, that pretty much sums up the completely nuts energy and inspiration of the early thrash scene in America. True...
Goatlord: What Happens in Vegas…
Before the odd ultra-sludgy LP with the electronic drums and long before Darkthrone paid tribute with its Goatlord CD, Goatlord were dirgy and shoddy underlings on the Las Vegas metal scene along with Papsmear,...
Victory for Fallen Wiccan Soldiers
This Memorial Day will be a good one for the families of 11 deceased Wiccan soldiers. After a long and embarrassing fight, the US Dept. of Veteran Affairs has added the pentacle to the...
Legal Threats Against MetalTabs.com
Sucky news for the advancement of metal guitar playing -- the user-generated vault of wisdom MetalTabs.com has taken down all of its tabs in the wake of a harrassing letter from the NMPA, National...
Deathly Blast
Appearing at the Milwaukee Metalfest in 1990, Obituary nearly obliterated half the death metal fans in the world with some jerry-rigged stage pyro. The big KABOOM! happens about 50 seconds into this clip.
As Monte...
Samhain: Speedy Delivery from Denmark
Samhain were the dark children of Mercyful Fate, Celtic Frost, Master, and the entire experience of the demo-trading universe. The band was comprised of tape-trading fanatics and scenesters -- guitarist Henk Leviathan edited Blackthorn...
Oink-less Pork on Your Plate?
Welcome to the science fiction world of future sausage...the amusing illustration above comes from a story I just wrote for Popular Mechanics about lab-grown meat. Examine the full specimen here.
1ST LISTEN: Shining, V: Halmstad (8/10)
The litany of abusive, nasty Swedish black metal continues. In the two years since the near-masterpiece IV: The Eerie Cold, Shining has provoked the world by glorifying suicide, dramatically faking the death of their...
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The Mad Baker
If you're familiar with the concept of gingerbread men, you'll love this mostly silent footage from a Thai bakery where human body parts built...
