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If you always follow directions accordingly, this is not for you. If you always match your T-shirt with your sneakers, this is not for you. If you only dwell in one scene, this is not for you. Assuming you are a metalhead, you're used to being an outsider...

This morning, when I woke up at 6 AM to start writing this very column, it was still dark. The sun hadn't even started peaking out over the horizon, and all you could hear was the sound of garbage trucks crawling through my neighborhood and collecting everyone's recyclables...

After releasing fantastic records from Amesoeurs, Cobalt and Krallice, not to mention hosting the return of the mighty YOB, Canadian boutique label Profound Lore has added another fine act to its roster in Virginia doom/sludge trio Salome...

Usually after a 30-city tour, a band's last show is the smelliest. However, when Bloody Panda played the last show of the Summon Tour at Union Pool on Aug. 21, the band was in fresh, clean clothes. It must've felt good for them to be home, because their set was one of the best I've seen from them yet...

In a dark room on a Monday night, members of black metal band Liturgy look more like second year art students than metal enthusiasts. Guitarist/vocalist Hunter Hunt-Hendrix has an angelic face, making his demonic wails that much more interesting...

Joe's Pub in New York, N.Y. was occupied with its regular seated dinner crowd Wednesday evening. It was a night for those interested in literature and culture. An indie band named Buke and Gass performed on their handmade instruments before several authors shared their work...

Everyone's got that one band that started them down the left-hand path of enlightenment, to their ultimate heavy metal nirvana. For some people, it was Kiss; for others, Black Sabbath. The times, they are a-changing, and nowadays it very well may be a band like Shadows Fall or Mastodon that lures the young folk in and teaches them the ways of the riff...

It isn't often that New York's Dysrhythmia gets to tour, as they will this September and October. But when they do, they refuse to leave home without two very special CDs, says guitarist Kevin Hufnagel. "We're big fan of prank calls," says Hufnagel, who, along with bassist Colin Marston (also a member of death metallers Krallice), is working with Luc Lemay on Gorguts' forthcoming album..