Rooster on Rye
This "heavy" 1972 session by proto-metal bangers Atomic Rooster is legendary because replacement singer Chris Farlowe casually chomps a sandwich throughout the duration of...
When Worlds Collide…
...Guitar World and MacWorld, anyway. You're looking at PocketGuitar, a six-string emulator for iPhone and iPod touch, and it sure looks to me like...
Dude, Where’s My Band?
Thanks to everybody who sent over the stripped DLR vocal from "Runnin' With the Devil" this week. All of you. Thanks. And you and...
Malicious Grind: From the Bowels of El Segundo
Though they surfaced during a time when the grindcore term was just beginning to be tossed around, suburban L.A. act Malicious Grind was a...
No Mosh, No Trend, No Resurrection
Helvete, Oslo, Norway, Easter Day 2006
Rotting Corpse: The Motion Picture
Hey, good news--it looks like Rick Ernst's long-awaited Get Thrashed could finally appear on DVD late this spring. Fingers upside-down crossed...
In the meantime, avail...
Groovy Aardvark: Ants Have No Chance
Three or four years ago, I went to Montreal a few days before New Year's, and lucked out to catch a special show at...
Talkin’ Metal II: The Van Halen Years
While I was out X-massing the shit out of some holidays, the best-prepared interviewer in the land Mark Strigl posted our all-Van Halen interview...
Happy New Year 1994 from Shellac
Most folks, including me, are probably more familiar with the name Crawldaddy than the actual contents of the late-'60s magazine of rock. Well the...
Ride the Spider
Unlike Iron Maiden, not every metalhead can afford their own custom commercial jet airliner. But if you got a mondo jumbo Erector set this...
Up, Up and Away the Irons!
If you have no qualms about riding in a jet decorated with a cartoon corpse, British Airways is renting the freshly-painted Iron Maiden 2008...
Anvil Drops on Sundance
For some glorious reason, I thought Sam Dunn was following up his Metal: A Headbanger's Journey metalmemoirmentary with an documentary on Anvil. I was...
Woman of Dark Desires
My work on publishing the US edition of Daniel Ekeroth's amazing Swedish Death Metal is almost finished. I'm starting to worry about where I'm...
True Botswana Black Metal: Wrust Never Sleeps
As any Necros fan can tell by the name, Conquest for Death are a blazing American hardcore thrash band. Singer Devon Morf is a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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Roots of the Great 1990s Major Label Metal Swindle on SiriusXM
The brief window between 1991 and 1996 when, anxious to get a grip on the next Metallica or even Nirvana, major corporate record labels signed or aided and abetted the extremes.
