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HEAVY METAL MOVIES: Blu-Ray Brutality for December 2016 w/31, Mad Max, Henry, Phantasm…

Tis the season to brace yourself for another headbanging guide to metal, punk, hard rock, horror, cult, and other outrage-related new Blu-ray releases. Here to help is Mr. Mike “McBeardo” McPadden, author of Heavy Metal Movies: Guitar Barbarians, Mutant Bimbos, and Cult Zombies Amok in the 666 Most Ear- and Eye-Ripping Big Scream Films Ever!

31 (2016)

Rob Zombie’s latest splat-schtick onslaught of copious carnage stars his regular coterie of collaborators (Malcolm McDowell, Meg Foster, Sher...

CHOOSING DEATH: Non-Metalhead “Forced” To Listen To Death Metal For 8 Hours Straight in Savage Social Experiment

The merry mischief makers at Mashable recently released a video of an in-office social experiment based on the premise, “We’ve all heard about studies on classical music and its effects on the human brain—but what about death metal?”

The clip showcases “Francesca,” not a fan of instrumental music, being set up at 9 a.m. to listen to eight hours nonstop of orchestral symphonies and sonatas. At the same time, mild-mannered “Jon,” who claims to have never been “turned on” to death metal, prepari...

MISERY OBSCURA: Eerie Von Appears on This Week’s Fiendcast

MISERY OBSCURA author Eerie Von appears on the latest episode of Misfits/Samhain/Danzig-themed podcast the FIENDCAST, available everywhere today. The show also delves into the deep topic of Misfits bootlegs. Here’s the summary:

Bootlegs! The Misfits have had their music bootlegged more than any other band we can think of. In this episode we talk about some of our favorites and some that we own ourselves. We’ll also discuss some of the key differences between the original pressings and the boo...

Bloody Roots of Death Metal in 1991: The Choosing Death Essentials on SiriusXM

BLOODY ROOTS OF DEATH METAL IN 1991: THE CHOOSING DEATH ESSENTIALS
w/guest Albert Mudrian, author of CHOOSING DEATH / editor of DECIBEL

Sat 12/17, 6PM ET
Sun 12/18, 1PM ET
Mon 12/19, 9AM ET
Tues 12/20, 4PM ET
Thurs 12/22, 9PM ET

This week, host Ian Christe (“Sound of the Beast,” Bazillion Points) welcomes guest Albert Mudrian, editor of Decibel and author of the newly revised and expanded CHOOSING DEATH: An Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore, for a plunge into the rich pageant of...

WE GOT POWER!: Unique 40X Signed Copy on Auction to Benefit Chris Stein of Saccharine Trust

Place your bid on a one-of-a-kind copy of WE GOT POWER!: Hardcore Punk Scenes from 1980s Southern California, by David Markey and Jordan Schwartz, at this location:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/172444434478

This is a special benefit auction for Chris Stein, long time bassist of Saccharine Trust, in an effort to help him offset expenses related to his battle with cancer. 100% of this auction will be gifted to Chris. Many of the photographed subjects from the We Got Power! Hardcore Punk Scenes from...

PERPETUAL CONVERSION: Danny Lilker’s Totally Resinated Brutal Truth-era Bass Is Up for Bids

Danny Lilker (Anthrax, S.O.D., Nuclear Assault, Brutal Truth, Venomous Concept) is releasing his mighty grip on one prized personal possession—the B.C. Rich bass he used in Brutal Truthis now up for auction on eBay. If you’re interested in instruments that are imbued with history and a strong positive mojo, you could barely do better than this axe that Danny says, “works fine, but looks a little beat up due to being my main bass during Brutal Truth’s career in the early 90s.”

See the bass smo...

METALION: Norway’s Mayhem Blackens Yule w/“De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Alive”

Nearly seven years in the making, Mayhem’s 1994 masterpiece De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas is as much a historical marker as it is a black metal landmark. The unique brutal musical extremism and atmosphere is inseparable from a violent and chaotic history that includes shotgun suicide, knife murder, and church arson that ignited a ferocious and frozen revolution.

The current incarnation of Mayhem began performing the entire album live in Sweden at the end of 2015, and the band will bring the show...

NYHC: Swiz, Rites, Quicksand, Hyenas—A Crash Course in “Post-Core” from NYHC Author Tony Rettman

In NYHC: New York Hardcore 1980–1990, author Tony Rettman captures the times, places, people, and power of punk rock’s most brain-bludgeoning offshoot as crushed the concrete corners of Manhattan with boiled-down and muscled-up musical might. This week, over at the recently launched and entirely essential Clrvynt site, Rettman extends his purview over hardcore happenings with a piece on the various varieties of “post-core.”

READ IT HERE: http://clrvynt.com/crash-course-in-post-core/

As Rettma...

CHOOSING DEATH: Kreator +Obituary +Midnight +Horrendous Cutting Heads on 2017 Decibel Magazine Tour

Decibel, the black-hearted monthly extreme metal culturetracthelmedby Choosing Death author Albert Mudrian, has announced the 2017lineup ofits annual take-no-prisoners rock-and-ravage roadshow.

German thrash kingpins Kreator; Florida death metal front-liners Obituary; unholy Ohio marauders Midnight; and expansive Pennsylvania death dealers Horrendous are slated to embark next spring for two dozens dates on the 2017 Decibel Magazine Tour.Discharging the first round of all-out destruction on Ma...

Bloody Roots of Thrash Metal Evolution 1986–2016 on SiriusXM

BLOODY ROOTS OF THRASH METAL EVOLUTION 1986-2016 on SiriusXM
Week of December 10, 2016

Sat 12/10, 6PM ET
Sun 12/11, 1PM ET
Mon 12/12, 9AM ET
Tues, 12/13, 4PM ET
Thurs 12/15, 9PM ET

Seizing on the flood of stellar releases by thrash metal veterans during 2016, this week’s show goes back exactly 30 years to 1986 for side-by-side pairings of early and brand new tracks by Flotsam & Jetsam, Megadeth, Sodom, Kreator, Voivod, and, yes, Metallica. Hear the evolution of the voices of high-speed experi...