After two rounds of amazing bands and guests announced, Housecore Horror just revealed a third round of acts, including GWAR and a Superjoint Ritual reunion!
At the start of last summer's sci-fi extravaganza, Prometheus, an extremely buff alien called an "Engineer" kills himself by guzzling some tar-black ghoulash. His decomposing body plops into a river and kicks off life on Planet Earth in the process...
Metal legends Voivod have signed to Century Media. The leaders of Quebecois progressive metal will drop Target Earth on Jan. 22 of next year, which will mark the start of the band's 30th anniversary celebration. Voivod were founded in January 1983, so this times up perfectly
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Metal compilations have been pumped out in extraordinary numbers since around 1980, but few are worth paying for and listening to regularly. K-Tel put out a comp of mainstream metal called Masters of Metal, a pointless collection of stuff you could find at any Kmart store: KISS, Scorpions, Y&T. Th...
To say that heavy metal music possesses a flair for the dramatic would be the understatement of the century. From epic battles between God and Satan to musclebound warriors swishing swords and winning over busty babes, the imagery is often theatrical, cinematic, and over-the-top enough to draw equal amounts of ire and praise...
"I don't know what this means. I don't think it means anything"
-- Eddie Vedder, accepting a Grammy for Pearl Jam's 'Spin the Black Circle,' 1996
I tend to take the Pearl Jam Attitude toward the Grammys, but it's still fun to sit back and watch people who know nothing about metal try and hand out awards for "Best Performance" every year...
Celebrating their 30th anniversary last night (Dec. 5) with the first of four special shows at the Fillmore in San Francisco, Metallica reunited with Jason Newsted, the bassist who, over the course of 14 years, played on their biggest-selling records...
By all rights, the early 1980s heavy metal craze should have been done by 1986, leaving behind only the neon scars, pink bandannas, and bootleg Quiet Riot T-shirts. Instead, an underground armada led by Metallica, Megadeth and Slayer reconfigured metal from the ground up, bringing bullet belts to the masses while injecting energy, integrity, and even some intelligence into its aggression...
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