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August 19, 2016
HEAVY METAL MOVIES: Big-Screen Bloodshed, Blu-Ray Brutality, and Streaming Screamers for August 2016
Strap in forthis month’s bestmetal, punk, and other hard-rock-related movies currently streaming online, actively screening in theaters, and/or newly arrived on Blu-ray, with gratuitous guidance from 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!
Part I. Streaming Bloody Gorevia Netflixin August 2016
Deathgasm (2015)
Behold: an instant classic. The outrageous New Zeala...
August 18, 2016
METALION/ONLY DEATH IS REAL: New Darkthrone Song “Tundra Leech” Summons Instant Winter
The mighty Darkthrone, the most free-spiritedand still-mysterious of Norway’s prime-era black metal bands, will return on October 14 with ARCTIC THUNDER. Today the duo debuted the track “Tundra Leech,” a chalice filled withpounding, slow and ugly black metal with an underpinning ofclassic muscular heavy metal. Great stuff as always, and possibly a return to the dark, cold Darkthrone of the past, yet buttressed by the many excursions the band has taken in recent years.
Preorderthe hell out thi...
WE GOT POWER!: “1991: The Year Punk Broke” Makes Rolling Stone’s Top 25 Punk Movies
Stodgy old Rolling Stone has issued its picks for The Top 25 Punk Rock Movies of All Time, and pogoing in at a solid #17 is 1991: The Year Punk Broke, directed by WE GOT POWER! coauthor David Markey.
This list starts way down with SLC Punk (1998) and tops out in first place with The Decline of Western Civilization (1981), nodding along the way to, among others, Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979), Repo Man (1984), The Filth and the Fury (2000), and The Punk Singer (2013). (Incidentally, the majo...
MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW: Brian Lew on Metallica’s “So What!” Podcast
Episode #3 of So What!—the podcast of Metallica’s official fan club—welcomes Brian Lew, coauthor of Murder in the Front Row: Shots from the Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter. Listen to it at this location. Yes, email registration is required, but before you get huffy about Napster, yadda yadda, it’s FREE, and also allows access to all kinds of free vintage audio and video.
LINK: https://metallica.com/blog/so-what-ar...
Brian joins host Steffan Chirazi ove...
August 17, 2016
MTV Classic Brings Back Old Metal Videos and a Headbangers Ball Tour
VH1 Classic and its signature series That Metal Show died on August 1st so that Headbangers Ball and Beavis and Butt-head could live again.
MTV Classic has arrived, bringing with it ’90s-focused MTV series reruns and blocks of vintage music videos. Beavis and Butt-head prevails via full episodes complete with metal-heavy music video commentary—a key aspect of the show that had been removed from B&B for home video release.
Programming at the channel so far seems to be a dump of VHS archives...
August 16, 2016
NYHC: Bad Brains and the Big Payback
Frontman H.R. and guitarist Dr. Know of hardcore punk giants Bad Brains are each facing serious health issues. In the spirit of keeping up that elusive Bad Brains P.M.A., fans are rallying to raise funds for medical expenses, with a few great benefit shows along the way.
H.R. is presently dealing with an unbearable headache-inducing neurological disorder. Earlier today, the GoFundMe page set up to help finance his treatment reached its $15,000 goal. So big up on that score:
August 15, 2016
DIRTY DEEDS: Mark Evans and Angry Anderson Bring on Blood Sweat & Beers
Australian bass legend Mark Evans, author of Dirty Deeds: My Life Inside/Outside of AC/DC, is hitting the road with Blood Sweat & Beers, his rip-roaring Down Under supergroup that features on vocals no less a wailing Oz icon than Rose Tattoo’s Angry Anderson. By way of refresher on recent history, when AC/DC went through its recent singer troubles, Anderson’s name “rose” to the surface frequently as a more proper replacement than Axl Rose. Now in cahoots again with Mark Evans, the world can a...
HEAVY METAL MOVIES / MELLOTRONS: Maestro Fabio Frizzi Performs Zombie Film Scores and The Beyond in North America
Italian horror film composer extraordinaire Fabio Frizzi and his seven-member Frizzi 2 Fulci band will soon be performing “Zombie Apocalypse” hits from his soundtracks to Zombie (1979), City of the Living Dead (1980), and others; or at select dates his entire score for master splatter director Lucio Fulci’s The Beyond (1981). Frizzi 2 Fulci has played Fabio’s scores for Fulci films elsewhere in the past couple years, but the current North American tour presents a bold new concept—his “compose...
CARBONIZED Is the Swedish Death Metal Band of the Week
During the band’s seven active years, Spånga-spawned innovators Carbonized pushed death metal to prog-powered new frontiers and unexpected extremes of psychedelic rock, while never once letting up on their brutality.
The band’s connections to other death metal battalions are as deep and twisted as the monstrous visions conjured by their music. Bassist Lars Rosenberg formed Carbonized in 1988, and Dismember frontman Matt Kärki originally sang lead. Initial guitarist Stefan Ekström and drumme...
August 13, 2016
Bloody Roots Thirty-Year Thrashback to 1986 on Sirius XM
Bloody Roots Thirty-Year Thrashback to 1986 on Sirius XM
Week of August 13, 2016
Sat 8/13, 6PM ET
Sun 8/14, 1PM ET
Mon 8/15, 9AM ET
Tues 8/16, 4PM ET
Thurs 8/18, 9PM ET
OnDemand at SiriusXM.com
This week’s heavy metal history lesson flashes back thirty years to 1986, as thrash peak reached a creative peak and smashed through the commercial boundaries to take over the larger metal world. Join us for a recap of the maturing Metallica, Slayer, and Megadeth; the newcomers Nuclear Assault, Dark An...
