By 1991, it was obvious that metal needed something new. Decades usually blur at the overlap — the late ‘80s and the early ‘90s had a lot of stylistic similarities — but in the evolving […]
As a band we’ve never made a big deal of the fact we’re from Northern Ireland, probably because we didn’t see the Troubles as an appropriate topic for thrash metal — we just never wrote […]
In Amazon’s new drama Sound of Metal, about a drummer who eventually loses his hearing, viewers are given a glimpse of the main characters Reuben and Lou in their everyday lives. The couple live in […]
In March of 2020, metal fans watched their entire world change. Over the course of about two weeks, every major tour was postponed if not canceled outright, while big cities around the globe indefinitely closed […]
Deafheaven should have been closing out 2020 with a victory lap. Back at the beginning of the year, the California black metal band were gearing up for a tour to commemorate their 10th anniversary as […]
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 […]
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