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March 29, 2016
Decibel Tour Underway w/ABBATH, High on Fire, Tribulation, Skeletonwitch; See You in Philly!
On the eve of the Decibel Tour 2016 launch, headliner Abbath iced the U.S. highways by releasing his slick new video for “Winterbane,” a blizzard of wolves, goblins, and corpse paint. See above! While this crazy cabal —joined by grizzled High on Fire, upstarts Tribulation, and fist-banging maniacs Skeletonwitch— winds its way across the country, we will be waiting at Union Transfer in Philadelphia on April 15 with open arms and open kegs.
As previously posted, the final night of the Decibel...
March 27, 2016
Dark Phantom: “Kirkuk’s Only Metal Band Are Defying ISIS in Iraq”
Ten years ago, the paperback edition of Sound of the Beast emerged with a special section on metal in the Muslim world. Since that time, circumstances have degraded, to say the least. From Morocco to Afghanistan, headbangers persevere against difficulties ranging from jail time to threat of death. Most histories of metal bands from this region end up with the members fleeing to Europe or the United States.
The latest issue of Huck Magazine profiles Dark Phantom, a polished Kirkuk, Iraq-based...
March 26, 2016
Bloody Roots of Judas Priest’s Sad Wings of Destiny Turns Forty on Sirius XM
BLOODY ROOTS OF JUDAS PRIEST’S SAD WINGS OF DESTINY TURNS FORTY
Week of March 26, 2016
Sat 3/26, 6PM ET
Sun 3/27, 1PM ET
Mon 3/28, 9AM ET
Tues 3/29, 4PM ET
Thurs 3/31, 9PM ET
This week, Ian Christe (“Sound of the Beast”, Bazillion Points) hails the 40-year anniversary of the release of Judas Priest’s Sad Wings of Destiny, the second-most significant pioneering heavy metal record after Black Sabbath’s self-titled debut. Every song on the magnificent Sad Wings is represented, including later in...
March 25, 2016
MELLODRAMA: Electro-Harmonix Announces Mellotron Guitar Pedal
Always surprising and inspiringeffects peddlers Electro-Harmonix have just announced the release of the M9 Tape Replay Machine effects pedal, “a dedicated Mellotron-inspired pedal, reproducing all the classic Mellotron sounds such as cello, orquestra, strings, and, of course, flutes, besides many other classic sounds.”
The companyhas dabbled in this sound before by including a Mellotron flute effect on theirearlier C9 Organ Machine pedal, but this is a different beast altogether. Now, through...
Brooklyn, 4/26: Path of Descent Art Show at Saint Vitus Bar
Saint Vitus in Brooklyn has just announced Tuesday, April 26, as the date for the“Path of Descent” art show, featuring work by two dozen artists including friends-of-Bazillion Justin Bartlett, Mark Riddick, Seldon Hunt, Ross Sewage, and heavyweight Choosing Death cover painter Dan Seagrave.
You might recall from Swedish Death Metal that Seagrave’s art has adorned the covers of some of the most revered death metal albums of all time. Amongst his Swedish roster alone are such hallowed titles as...
March 24, 2016
NYHC: Free A7 Throwback Show Tonight w/Undead, Antidote, Ultra Violence, Urban Waste, Jimmy G
Tonight, March 24, 2016,startsas a night forremembering—and will go down as a night to remember! The NYHC Chronicles presents a freeshow at 7:00 PM at Niagara to mark the 35th anniversary of shows at A7, the hardcore home found at that L.E.S. location during the halcyon days of hardcore in New York. Brawlers and gawkers alike welcome to another raucous night, with a very special bill featuring old-school bands the Undead, Antidote, Urban Waste, Ultra Violence, and Killer Instinct—plus DJ Jimm...
March 22, 2016
SWEDISH DEATH METAL: New Vanhelgd Track “Rebellion of the Iniquitous” Streaming
Sweden lately seems to be on a real roll—specifically a kanelbullar, its dark, sticky native version of a cinnamon roll. This time, Pulverised Records (in Europe) and Dark Descent Records (in North America) bring us a relatively new band, not one unearthed after years in obscurity.
Vanhelgd’s debut Cult of Lazarus arrived to much fanfare in 2008, late to even the Swedish revival scene. (Repugnant formed in 1998, by comparison.) Very quickly, Vanhelgd’s crushing and depressive style of death m...
March 19, 2016
Bloody Roots Thirty-Year Thrashback to 1986 on Sirius XM
Bloody Roots Thirty-Year Thrashback to 1986 on Sirius XM
Week of February 27, 2016
Sat 3/19, 6PM ET
Sun 3/20, 1PM ET
Mon 3/21, 9AM ET
Tues 3/22, 4PM ET
Thurs 3/24, 9PM ET
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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...
March 18, 2016
Swedish Death Metal: INTERMENT’s Second Full-Length in 25 Years Arrives April 1
The scent of death is truly in the air in Sweden these days, as all of the oldest local death metal bands come crawling back out of the grave to spread their rot once again. Today, we bring you new music by the legendary Interment!
Formed in 1988 as Beyond, Interment released several demos in the 1990s before initially calling it quits. As Daniel Ekeroth writes in Swedish Death Metal: “It’s a shame these guys never made it, because they were so incredibly good. One of the best Swedish death...
HEAVY METAL MOVIES: Mike “McBeardo” McPadden Gets Weird on Awkward Moments Podcast
Mike “McBeardo” McPadden appears on the latest episode of highly- and widely-recommended podcast Awkward Moments with Collin Bullock. Chicago-based comedian Bullock is known for locating and uniting fellow weirdos an atmosphere of collaborative strangeness, and with Heavy Metal Movies author McBeardo on board, talk heads straight to such diverse topics as writing porn scripts; the midnight movie revelations of the Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo; and the annoying side of black metal documentar...
