“Come to Brazil!” This phrase has become a joke in the metal community throughout its ongoing relationship with sweet Mother Internet. It seems like every time a band posts something about their whereabouts or current […]
Vinyl: the only true way to listen to classic albums, or a waste of space that makes you hate yourself every time you move to a new apartment? In the past two decades, vinyl has […]
Last week, the world saw history in the making as an angry mob of Trump-supporting election deniers broke into the Capitol Building, causing destruction and looting the United States Senate chamber with little to no […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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