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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This week, the rock and metal world was shaken to its core by the death of legendary guitarist Eddie Van Halen. While it’s easy to see how Van Halen‘s music influenced mainstream hard rock, it’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
“There’s two emo Batmans — WHAT’S GOING ON?!” This week was rife with absurd stories, and on today’s episode of our heavy-metal talk show Last Words, hosts Jordan Olds (Two Minutes To Late Night), Katy […]
Guitars: cool? A recent New York Times has suggested that the rise of guitar sales since the coronavirus lockdown heralded the ‘return of the guitar.’ But was the guitar and the music that relies on […]
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