Springtime officially begins this month and we celebrate so many things, Spring Break, March Madness and for many SXSW blocks off a major portion of the calendar. In years past metal has taken a prominent...
The tendency to shy away from all things heavy happens every time a terrorist attack happens or a school shooting takes place. It is typical for people to want to be comforted by some crappy...
A long time ago there was an ancient ritual, a rite of passage for young ones coming of age, a time when we believed in myth and circumstance, and suspended disbelief and left any notion...
5. Converge – All We Love We Leave Behind Speaking of Kurt Ballou, that bastard represents some of the best qualities alive in metal today. Full of heart and vigor, helping bands whittle out their sound from...
I didn’t get to do an ACL Fest preview for you this year, because they suck and have no metal in their lineup. I guess the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Cannibal Corpse don’t usually...
October is my month, all you other blogger buttholes can take it off; you got nothing on me and my metal during the darkest month of the year. We start down the spiral to winter,...
September brings back the routine for all of you non-career folk, students and teachers, and it gets this nation back to its tedium. Or, at the very least, it screws up the traffic again for...
There have been strange things afoot this summer in the metal world, whether you are keeping up with the latest prison watch involving the lead singer of Lamb of God, pregnancies splitting up bands, or...
