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Danko Jones: There's No Such Thing as a Musical Guilty Pleasure

Sat, May 04 2013 7:50am - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

Do you like playing festivals more or clubs more?

The Black Market: The Month In Metal — March 2013

Thu, March 28 2013 7:33pm - Source: Stereogum

I started my marathon at Show No Mercy's showcase and closed it at Invisible Oranges'.

The Black Market: The Month In Metal – February 2013

Wed, February 27 2013 7:03pm - Source: Stereogum

Welcome to the Black Market, a new space at Stereogum dedicated to talking about and listening to heavy music.

Horns Up Ya Shitters! February's Best Metal Reviewed

Wed, February 27 2013 2:20pm - Source: The Quietus

It's a very particular, pivotal moment in your life when you start phoning up your local council to report potholes and faulty manhole covers, once it's done there's no turning back and you'll have forever joined the fraternity of the suburban dammed, the curtain-twitching cunts with better looking geraniums than record collections.

2013: Most Anticipated Metal Albums

Mon, January 14 2013 5:11pm - Source: Noisecreep

Yeah, so much for the big Mayan Calendar fake-out.

Author / photographer Laina Dawes recounts favorite shows of 2012

Thu, December 20 2012 9:21pm - Source: Brooklyn Vegan

I was too young to see the original lineup and while slightly disappointed that Marc Anthony is no longer in the band, I wanted see David Lee Roth in action.

Anso DF’s Top Fifteen Metal Albums of 2012

Tue, December 04 2012 9:11pm - Source: Metal Sucks

In the wee hours of election night, I was struck by a wise observation.

An interview with Scott Carlson of Repulsion

Tue, August 21 2012 4:00pm - Source: Brooklyn Vegan

In these Power of the Riff lineups, Repulsion seems to serve as a bridge the more metal groups (Sunn O))), Winter, Pentagram) and the punkier bands (Off!, Negative Approach, Agnostic Front, etc.).

Bloodstock 2012: The Metal Injection Report

Mon, August 20 2012 5:47pm - Source: Metal Injection

In the searing heat of English summer approximately 15,000 people flooded a tiny patch of field to wreak chaos, drink too much beer and be part of the UK's biggest independent music festival.

FESTIVAL REPORT: Bloodstock

Fri, August 17 2012 4:43pm - Source: The Quietus

As ever in 2012 the great British summer turned out to be a great British disappointment, leaving most with nothing but grim resignation to the fact that almost every time they opened their curtains of a morning they would be met with a low hanging, hazy bank of grey misery that used to be the sky.

Kerrang! Magazine 15/08/12

Tue, August 14 2012 10:40am - Source: Kerrang! - UK

Tracks picked by You Me At Six, Of Mice & Men, Slipknot, Blink-182 and more... and you!

Album Of The Week: Nachtmystium Silencing Machine

Tue, July 31 2012 6:49pm - Source: Stereogum

I've already written in this space that black metal, by and large, is just a thing that I don't get.

I Went On The Road with BEHEMOTH, WATAIN and The Decibel Magazine Tour

Mon, July 23 2012 7:57pm - Source: Metal Injection

My sincerest apologies for this long overdue labor of love.

Rock Photographer Jeremy Saffer Announces Hollywood Seminar

Mon, June 04 2012 7:18pm - Source: Noisecreep

After a successful month of spearheading photo shoots with Meshuggah , Killswitch Engage , Miss May I , DragonForce , Overkill , Watain , Behemoth , Baroness , and The Agonist , completing two back-to-back magazine cover shoots, all the while having one cover already on shelves, Jeremy Saffer will be heading out to L.A. for his first West Coast music photography seminar in conjunction with SoundCheck Hollywood.

Rockstar mixtapes!

Wed, May 23 2012 3:16pm - Source: Kerrang! - UK

In celebration of this week's Rockstar Mixtapes cover feature - in which the stars give you their favourite songs in 10-track must-hear playlists - the Kerrang! magazine staff have put together their own lists for you to read and enjoy.

THE DECIBEL MAGAZINE TOUR IN L.A.: GOOD TO BE ALIVE

Wed, May 02 2012 9:17pm - Source: Metal Sucks

In entertainment, expectation can be dangerous.

Kerrang! Magazine 02/05/12

Tue, May 01 2012 10:19am - Source: Kerrang! - UK

Shouldn't Matt be working on a new Bullet album?

John Coltrane -The Olatunji concert: the last live recording

Fri, March 23 2012 7:46am - Source: The Ripple Effect

I have literally all of Coltrane's Impulse! label CDs, as well as the vast majority of his recordings for a myriad other labels.

Pulp playing @ Radio City Music Hall before Coachella (dates)

Mon, January 23 2012 2:29pm - Source: Brooklyn Vegan

DFA's pre-Lana Del Rey-on-SNL tweet (65) aamir anwar wrote: Not sure what in the world is wrong with anyone criticizing Lana. S... Lulu's (pics), add show at Acheron with Kim Phuc (11) Anonymous wrote: lol mitch clem SUCKS. ...

THE LINE-UP FOR THE DECIBEL MAGAZINE TOUR HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED, AND IT IS AMAZING: BEHEMOTH, WATAIN, THE DEVIL’S BLOOD, AND IN SOLITUDE

Fri, January 20 2012 3:50pm - Source: Metal Sucks

Thanks to various teases both in print and right here on this very website , we've known for sometime that our friends at Decibel were working on their very own tour; and given how awesome Decibel is, we expected that tour to be something pretty special.

LIVE REVIEWS: RITES OF DARKNESS III

Mon, December 19 2011 3:09pm - Source: crustcake

The most amazing thing about last weekend's Rites of Darkness III festival in San Antonio was that it actually happened.

I SIDE WITH WATAIN

Wed, November 02 2011 4:17pm - Source: Metal Sucks

Y'know, whatever the problem is between The Haunted singer Peter Dolving and Watain , I'm gonna go with Watain.

F-F-F-FEUDIN’: PETER DOLVING VS. WATAIN!

Fri, October 28 2011 8:25pm - Source: Metal Sucks

Just the other day I was thinking to myself, "Gee, what ever happened to Peter Dolving's MySpace blogs? Obviously MySpace isn't a thing anymore, but I can't imagine that means Dolving has any less to say."

CARNIFEX’S UNTIL I FEEL NOTHING COULD BE WORSE

Wed, October 26 2011 4:42pm - Source: Metal Sucks

Far be it from me to hate on anyone's taste in music – to each their own.

INTO THE COVEN: WOMEN OF OCCULT ROCK

Fri, October 21 2011 3:17pm - Source: Metal Sucks

I suppose "occult rock" is a handy enough term for it, anyway; it's easier than stringing together "70's-influenced psychedelic doom rock" to describe the aural spells these wicked women weave.

Beyond the Darkness: An Interview With Wolves in the Throne Room

Wed, September 28 2011 1:56pm - Source: The Quietus

For as long as there's been black metal, there have been black metal personalities.

Tombs - Path of Totality

Thu, August 04 2011 2:58pm - Source: The Quietus

When Mastodon's Leviathan , that rarely-matched-since slab of whale-sized sludgy goodness, came out in 2004, it looked like Relapse Records was on top of the metal world.

Under The Influence: Krallice Diotima

Fri, July 29 2011 11:36am - Source: Stereogum

In case you missed my earlier tweet , I accepted a position at Pitchfork, where I'll be returning as an Editor on Monday, 8/1.

An Abyss Spits Out Another Abyss: Liturgy Live

Wed, July 13 2011 12:59pm - Source: The Quietus

More than any other metal subgenre in the last decade, black metal has consistently bred interesting new bands with radical visions for its future.

The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual

Sun, June 19 2011 7:17am - Source: The Ripple Effect

(In my best Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson voice) Finally!!

'Slayer Mag' compiled into a book, Holy Grail & Cauldron are in NYC now, Slayer tickets are on presale

Wed, May 04 2011 8:56pm - Source: Brooklyn Vegan

"For twenty-five years, Norway's Slayer Mag published the gospel of black metal and death metal, combining eye-ripping graphics, brutally honest writing, and relentless offbeat humor. With this anthology/memoir, editor Jon "Metalion" Kristiansen unfolds the extreme highs and lows of a life lived for heavy metal. Founded in 1985 in Sarpsborg, Norway, Slayer Mag quickly rose to prominence by championing countless unsigned death metal pioneers. The pages of Slayer Mag exploded along with the extreme metal underground, and as black metal rose to prominence in Norway in the 1990s, Slayer Mag remained the final word on the moods and motivations of those dark times.

Travel report: P3 Guld 2011

Tue, February 08 2011 7:04pm - Source: It's a Trap!

I have been following P3 Guld/P3 Gold, Sveriges Radio/Swedish Radio's annual awards ceremony, for a long time now, almost as long as the event has existed.

FRESHLY BAKED: FISTER

Thu, January 27 2011 5:07pm - Source: crustcake

In "Freshly Baked," we feature promising young bands or bands that are otherwise lacking the attention we think they deserve.

“GRIM KIM” KELLY’S TOP FIFTEEN METAL ALBUMS OF 2010

Thu, December 16 2010 6:13pm - Source: Metal Sucks

I'm only an occasional contributor to this fine website, but when Vince sounded the call for year-end lists, I couldn't resist chiming in with my two (extremely opinionated) cents.

SATAN ROSENBLOOM’S TOP FIFTEEN METAL ALBUMS OF 2010

Thu, December 16 2010 6:13pm - Source: Metal Sucks

While I've been impressed with every record that Ludrica has released, none of them was so evocative as The Tenant .

WATAIN IS NFA III

Wed, December 08 2010 11:50pm - Source: Metal Sucks

In 2010, nobody in music captured my attention more than Watain frontman Erik Danielsson, tireless interviewee and totally sharp dude.

Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit

Tue, December 07 2010 6:29am - Source: Pitchfork Media

Whether you self-identify as a metal-attuned hipster or a hipster-hating metalhead, and whether you scan Pitchfork's reviews or prowl the message boards of the American Nihilist Underground Society, you've likely considered the shifting sound of black metal during the last decade.

Watain, Goatwhore, Black Anvil, Hamsoken @ Santos Party House, New York 12/03/10

Mon, December 06 2010 4:01pm - Source: Stereogum

Masonic Temple sell out, freezing Halloween event with Krieg and woe , those Monarch! events with Fred, and this past Thursday's smoky Watain collaboration with Blackened Music and Chronic Youth, I might as well pause on something resembling a roll.

Book Notes - Zachary Lipez ("Please Take Me Off the Guest List")

Fri, October 15 2010 5:44pm - Source: Largehearted Boy

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.

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