On September 27th, 1986, Metallica were traveling through Sweden on tour when their bus hit a patch of black ice. The bus crashed, and bassist Cliff Burton was killed. This was a huge blow for […]
Let’s get this out of the way: I have the Motörhead warpig tattooed on my ass. Shortly after Lemmy’s death, I decided that I was going to get ol’ Snaggletooth inked into my skin a […]
If you’d shown the Trick or Treat Studios catalog to a metal fan in the 1980s, they would’ve gasped with joy. With masks and costumes including the Motörhead War Pig, the Misfits’ Crimson Ghost, Alice […]
Black metal probably never intended to be art. In its thrashy early stages as imagined by bands like Bathory, Venom, and Hellhammer, the goal of black metal was to be as primitive and earnestly evil […]
One can never determine exactly when a genre of music started. For ever obvious benchmark, there’s an obscure, influential one that entrenched hipsters are waiting to draw like a pistol. Kill ‘Em All? Try Overkill […]
As the ‘80s died, Slayer had to do what metal bands fear the most: be somebody. 1986’s Reign In Blood had blown everyone’s mind with its sheer speed and violence, while 1988’s South of Heaven […]
Here in the season of the dead, sanity hangs by a thread We’re descendants of the dark — give us back our one true love Manifest All Hallow’s Eve, Samhain grim, our one true love […]
“Look at all you people out there having a great goddamn time!” shouts Corey Taylor from the stage of The Forum in Los Angeles. The comment is followed by a shot of the LA venue’s […]
Dear Cardinal Tobin, My name is Chris Krovatin, and I am a resident of Mine Hill, New Jersey. I grew up Catholic in Hoboken; though I am no longer practicing, the history and traditions of […]
It’s hard to follow up an instant classic, which Black Sabbath’s 1970 self-titled debut certainly was. Armed with a guitar sound like no other, a goosebump-inducing atmosphere, and lyrics about Satan sung by a madman, […]
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