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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
"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...
Suicidals Kill in 1982
This is rad!
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...
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...
Strange Fruit
Black metal parodies are never funny..oh wait, this one is!
Thanks PatD!
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
