Last Words Relive Your Favorite Metal Moments of 2020 with the Best of Last Words December 24, 2020 10:15am Look, we get it: 2020 is basically over. Sure, we’ve got two weeks and a couple of major holidays left in which this cackling demon of a year can throw us curveballs and make us […]
Last Words The Black Dahlia Murder’s Trevor Strnad Talks Christmas Music on This Week’s Episode of Last Words December 17, 2020 1:29pm Ah, Christmas, that one time a year where metalheads utter their annual mantra of, “Fuck you, Mariah Carey. Fuck. You.” While metal fans generally don’t mind Christmas — let’s be honest, it’s a repurposed pagan holiday […]
Last Words Moshtalks’ Terry “Beez” Bezer Discusses The Best Metal Of 2020 On This Week’s Last Words December 3, 2020 2:54pm 2020: what a fucking gauntlet of a year. Between the global pandemic, the race riots, the election, the people freaking out that the results of the election was some kind of conspiracy, and Tiger King, […]
Last Words Nothing’s Domenic Palermo Talks Shoegaze In This Week’s Episode of Our Metal Talk Show, Last Words November 19, 2020 12:46pm Shoegaze: a dreamy portal to the musical heavens, or rock’s most listless genre? For decades now, shoegaze has threatened to creep into rock and metal and turn it into something between an emotional mindscape or […]
Last Words On This Week’s Episode of Our Talk Show Last Words: Did Dave Mustaine Write Metallica’s Best Riffs? November 12, 2020 1:17pm Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine: revolutionary guitar hero, or revenge-obsessed also-ran? For ages, Mustaine getting fired from Metallica was regarded as the point at which the band solidified their legendary line-up. But more and more, figures within […]
Last Words Life of Agony’s Alan Robert joins this week’s episode of our metal talk show, Last Words October 29, 2020 1:11pm Halloween and metal go hand in hand. Who among us doesn’t fill our Halloween playlists full of dark and ominous heavy metal standards? Slayer’s “Raining Blood,” Type O Negative’s “Black No. 1,” literally any Cannibal […]
Last Words Primitive Man’s Ethan Lee McCarthy Joins This Week’s Episode of Our Metal Talk Show, Last Words October 22, 2020 8:42pm Metal will always have two distinct classes of listener: mainstream fans and underground fans. The former argue that music should be fun and catchy, and that underground fans are whiny elitists; the latter believe that […]
Last Words Code Orange’s Jami Morgan joins this week’s episode of our heavy metal talk show, Last Words October 15, 2020 12:53pm This year’s been brutal for touring bands. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused literally every tour across the globe to be cancelled, which has been a major drag for both artists and fans. But in the […]
Last Words Kittie’s Morgan Lander Joins This Week’s Episode of Our Metal Talk Show, Last Words October 1, 2020 2:38pm Nu-metal: a bizarre but fruitful time in metal’s history, or a pock-marked white boy shitshow in parachute pants? Towards the end of its reign as Earth’s dominant guitar-based lifeform, nu-metal was considered about as shitty […]
Last Words Sharptooth’s Lauren Kashan Joins This Week’s Episode of Our Metal Talk Show, Last Words September 24, 2020 12:38pm Metal vocalists: careful masters of their craft, or dudes reciting forensic case files through mouthfuls of Oreos? Other than the guitar, and maybe the drums (the bass has its merits, too), vocals are the most […]