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SHERIFF McCOY: Hanoi Rocks Get “Strange” in Retrospective Six-LP Hanoi Box

Strange Boys, a remastered collection of the first five albums by Finnish glam-trash punk-metal legends Hanoi Rocks, will strut with style into stores on October 21. Get ready to mess up your hair and wake up somewhere new.

Cleopatra Records has two versions of Strange Boys planned: one features five CDs, the other six vinyl LPs. Each will cover the group’s first four studio albums—Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks (1981), Oriental Beat (1982), Self Destruction Blues (1982), and Back...

Bazillion Points Revives Albert Mudrian’s CHOOSING DEATH; Death Metal & Grindcore History Exhumed in Revised & Expanded Death-luxe Edition This November

This November 2016, Bazillion Points Books expands its lethal library with a revised and expanded 400-page “death-luxe” edition of Decibel editor Albert Mudrian’s morbid modern classic CHOOSING DEATH: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore. CHOOSING DEATH will join Daniel Ekeroth’s SWEDISH DEATH METAL, Tony Rettman’s NYHC, and dozens of other essential volumes detailing extreme underground happenings.

Says Publishers Weekly: “Mudrian, editor-in-chief of Decibel magazine, condenses...

Bloody Roots of Death Metal and Grindcore in 2016 on SiriusXM

BLOODY ROOTS OF DEATH METAL AND GRINDCORE IN 2016
Week of October 15, 2016

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Thanks to Albert Mudrian, editor of Decibel and author of the newly revised CHOOSING DEATH: The Improbable History of Death Metal and Grindcore, for compiling most of this week’s infernally blasting survey of death metal and grindcore in 2016. Host Ian Christe presents brand new tracks by Asphyx, Rotten Sound, Obituary, and Ana...

Bloody Roots of Grunge and Metal on Sirius XM

BLOODY ROOTS OF GRUNGE AND METAL
Week of October 8, 2016

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Honoring Seattle-area long-haired punk music to mark the 25th anniversary of Nirvana’s surprise breakthrough Nevermind, Bloody Roots digs the distortion and flannel of grunge acts like Tad, Nirvana, Earth, Mudhoney, and Soundgarden. Host Ian Christe (“Sound of the Beast”/Bazillion Points) braves the rain and fog and extracts the heaviest moments o...

HEAVY METAL MOVIES: TCM Salutes Christopher Lee—The Most Metal Movie Star of All Time?

Though Sir Christopher Lee crossed over to the realms beyond in 2015 at age 93, his on-camera legacy lives forever—just like Dracula, his most famous role. Even if Lee had retired after portraying cinema’s definitive full-color Dracula in a series of gothic, blood-drenched classics from England’s Hammer Films, Lee would still have been able to “stake” a claim on the title of most metal movie star of all time.

Christopher Lee’s Top 15 Most Heavy Metal Moments

But Lee repeatedly sealed his pl...

A Lifeless Object, Alive: Slayer’s REIGN IN BLOOD Turns Thirty Today

Get to work! Twenty-eight minutes and fifty-eight seconds of metallic perfection awaits to rip yourself apart. Congratulations to Tom Araya, Kerry King, Dave Lombardo, and the late Jeff Hanneman for this timeless creation.

Where were you on October 7, 1986?

Read MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW

EXPERIENCING NIRVANA: Tad Doyle’s Brothers of the Sonic Cloth Rises Again

Slaying season has come once more to Seattle. Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, the Emerald City doom circlefronted by “heavier-than-God” Sub Pop-era grunge legend Tad Doyle of TAD fame, hasannounced that multi-instrumentalist Andrew McInnis has joined the group.McGinnis, formerly ofGirth, will debut as a Brother on October 29,unleashingthe loud, the crushing, and the sludgy all over Seattle’s Substation venue. He joins the existing crew of Tad Doyle on guitar and vocals, Peggy Doyle on bass, and...

HELLBENT FOR COOKING: Annick Giroux’s Cauchemar Hits the European Road

Canadian heavy/doom metal riff masters Cauchemar—the band fronted by Annick Giroux, author of Hellbent for Cooking: The Heavy Metal Cookbook—announces itsupcoming European tour. Encompassing 26 dates across nine countries, Cauchemar will be joined along the way by the likes of Seremonia, Mansion, Occult Burial, and Night Gaunt. During this tour, the band will also be playing four festivals—Malta Doom, Darkness Prevails, Nuclear War Now! and Hammer of Doom—in support of their critically acclai...

Bloody Roots Salutes 30 Years of Slayer’s Reign in Blood on SiriusXM

Above: Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman of Slayer, from MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW (photo by Harald Oimoen)

Bloody Roots Salutes 30 Years of Slayer’s Reign in Blood on SiriusXM

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Mon 10/3, 9AM ET
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Straight down from the lacerated sky, this week Bloody Roots honors 30 years of Slayer’s undisputed metal classic Reign in Blood. Rising above the thrash metal wave, Slayer’s clinical and violent major label debut shook the mainstream and...

MISERY OBSCURA: Glenn Danzig Tells New York Times Misfits Reunion Is Two-and-Done

After insisting for decades that a reunion of original horror-punk giants the Misfits would never happen, vocalist Glenn Danzig fronted the reformed group (with Dave Lombardo on drums) at a pair of much-praised Riot Fest performances in September. Fans swarmed the reunion gigs in Denver and Chicago with maniacal passion and, by all accounts, the band seemed bolstered by the love and delivered the ghoulish goods. “Not a lot of people got to see the original Misfits,” Danzig told the New York T...