At the end of the day, life is a crapshoot. Especially in the post-COVID world, one feels like any sense of stability or consistency they have can collapse entirely at a moment’s notice. Not only […]
When it hit stores in 1992, everything about White Zombie’s La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1 was a breath of fresh air. Rock was desperately trying to distance itself from metal by embracing alternative (which too […]
Seven years ago today, metal got a little less gross. Oderus Urungus, alien-overlord of the almighty thrash conquerors GWAR, passed from this warty, jizz-caked world to the next; by proxy, so did his human host, […]
Any band can sound pretty. A few twinkling keys, some shimmering minor chords here and there, and bam, you’ve got a song that feels like the appropriate soundtrack to a sunrise in an indie teen […]
In America, St. Patrick’s Day is most commonly celebrated with an explosion of Guinness and The Pogues. For us, the day is to Ireland as Halloween is to goth — a celebration of all the […]
No band in metal consistently makes statements as grand and overwhelming as those of Sweden’s Opeth. The group hit their 30th anniversary in 2020, and they’ve come a long distance in those three decades — […]
35 years ago today, Metallica left a crater in the metal world that no other band has ever been able to replicate or fill. Coming off of the mounting success of 1984’s monumental Ride the Lightning, […]
One of the first things anyone who performs onstage has to learn is that there’s no room for self-consciousness — if you believe in something, and do it hard enough, it’ll be awesome. For no […]
It technically wasn’t difficult for Brand of Sacrifice to bridge the gape between anime and metal. When they decided to base their debut album, 2019’s God Hand, on the much-loved manga and anime Berserk, the Canadian five-piece […]
If we take the term “shock rock” to genuinely mean artists who frighten and repulse the general public, then there is no greater act in the genre’s history than Cannibal Corpse. While the Florida-via-Buffalo death […]
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