It’s easy to draw a hard line between genres and cultures within music. People feel comfortable with these divisions because it allows them to put themselves on one side or another — aggressive or sensitive, […]
When Davey Calabrese arrives to our interview, he has fangs. A cross of blood is smeared on his forehead. Behind him hums a blacklit altar to all things late-show monster movie, right down to the […]
There will never be another band like Slayer. With their blazing thrash riffs, their psychologically-horrific themes, and their unparalleled live show, the California thrash four-piece paved the way for any band who wanted to make […]
Yesterday, it was revealed that Dave Ellefson, founding bassist of thrash metal titans Megadeth, was dropped from the band following a pretty lurid scandal. A series of sexual text messages surfaced involving Ellefson and a […]
Yesterday, the world reeled to discover that after a long hiatus, culture-destroying death metallers Dethklok were finally returning to the public. Late-night animation network Adult Swim officially confirmed that Brendon Small’s ode to all things […]
“A stupid question, I know, but…how the fuck is everybody doing out there in TV land?” It’s good to hear that even in the face of concert shutdowns, Dani Filth hasn’t lost his sense of […]
In the ‘90s, heavy music and comics were both fighting hard to prove their legitimacy. The former was trying to shed the sparkly cheese and/or softcore satanism of the ‘80s, and embrace either tough-guy realism […]
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 […]
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