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Upstart Pickle Has More Facebook Fans Than Nickelback
Amid the patriotic fever ignited by the Winter Olympics, one of Canada's national treasures was dealt a staggering blow today when an inanimate pickled gourd officially racked up more Facebook fans than Canuck arena rockers Nickelback. The fan page asking the question 'Can this pickle get more fans than Nickleback...
Who Was the First Band to Wear Corpse Paint?
Thank you, Jenny (not photographed at left), for providing this weeks Ask The 'Creep - Who was the first band to wear corpse paint?
We could enter into a long, convoluted discussion of face painting in the theater, German Expressionist cinema, monster movies, and blah, blah, blah, but the short answer is "Alice Cooper...
Do Norwegian Black Metal Bands Really Kill Each Other and Burn Churches and Stuff, or Is It All Just Hype?
Newspaper headlines can be scary these days, especially when metal bands are involved.
That's a bit like asking if the Hells Angels run around stabbing people to death at rock concerts. Extreme acts perpetrated by members of an insular, "scary" subculture make for amazing tabloid headlines, and that tends to be all Joe Supermarket ever hears about the scene in question...
How Did the ‘Devil Horns’ Become the Universal Metal salute?
This weeks 'Ask The 'Creep' comes from Kristina, and she's looking for the origins of "devil horns" in the metal world.
Long before the devil sign was used to piss off the parents and teachers of budding Metalheads, it was used to piss off superstitious Italians, for whom the 'corna' (Italian for "horns") was either a vulgar gesture or a way to throw someone the "evil eye.
How Come the Number 666 Pops Up in So Many Metal Songs?
Jory wants to know about the whole "666 thing" that he keeps hearing in so many metal songs.
As any Iron Maiden fan can tell you, 666 is "the number of the beast," which is a really badass biblical way of saying that it's associated with the Antichrist...
What the Hell Is ‘Hipster Metal,’ and Should I Hate It?
Our friend Willis from Gamedaily asks the 'Creep, "What the Hell Is 'Hipster Metal,' and Should I Hate It?"
Answer: Like pornography, hipster metal is hard to define, but you know it when you see it. The term can refer to any/all of the following:
a) indie-rock bands who aren't really metal but own some fuzz pedals (Wolfmother, Dead Meadow, Boris)
b) heavy, critic-friendly drone bands li