Metal and post-rock might seem like two opposing styles of music on the surface. Where one emphasizes power and intensity, the other focuses on abstraction and contemplation. What would a band like Mastodon have in […]
Earlier this week, it was revealed that shock rocker Rob Zombie would officially be directing a new film adaptation of The Munsters. While this news was met with plenty of cheers, it was also received with […]
People tend not to think of metal as summer music, but that’s probably only because they’re not listening to the right songs. At its most high-energy and hedonistic, metal is not just appropriate listening when […]
For many metalheads, the COVID-19 lockdown was one of the most defining moments in their lives, if not the most defining moment. Between the the cancellation of all live music, the government-issued stay-at-home order, and […]
Most metal bands take themselves extremely seriously — which is why they’re so much fun to make fun of. Claiming your art is no laughing matter is the ultimate challenge to anyone with a sense […]
Horror icons have come and gone over the ages, but few if any have remained as immortally loved and feared as Count Dracula. Bram Stoker’s vampire supervillain has been so thoroughly used and adapted over […]
No matter how grim, humorless, and super-cereal you are about metal, you just can’t hate Dio‘s Holy Diver. The 1983 album encapsulates everything rad about heavy music, from its big swingin’ riffs to its elaborate […]
The past twenty-one years have been a period of unprecedented change for heavy metal music. Since the ball dropped on the ’90s, the genre has seen countless rises, falls, mutations, and reinventions, all in the […]
Nu-metal had problems. Today, a fresh generation of listeners remembers the genre for its on-the-face-of-it diversity and its tradition-crushing heaviness — which is good, because those things were what made it worthwhile overall. But those […]
Ah, the strip club, a place where beautiful, athletic women are showered with dollar bills by wide-eyed onlookers and boys become men over $17 Bud Lights. For years, strip clubs have been a place where […]
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