"Death metal attracts sharks as it mimics "struggling fish"

Death metal attracts sharks as it mimics "struggling fish"

Boing Boing by Rusty Blazenhoff  

TIL: Sharks are attracted to the sound of death metal. Apparently, the "dense tones" of it mimics the "low frequencies of struggling fish." (Damn.)

"A new documentary goes inside Nepal’s electrifying metal scene

A new documentary goes inside Nepal’s electrifying metal scene

 Metal Hammer by Dave Everley  /

No Silence: Heavy Metal From Nepal documents Kathmandu’s Silence Festival and the rise of local metal heroes Underside

"SLAYER's Show No Mercy Minotaur Has Its Own Action Figure

SLAYER's Show No Mercy Minotaur Has Its Own Action Figure

Metal Injection by Greg Kennelty 

It does not give final commands either.

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"Voivod, Dream Theater, Watchtower and the explosive birth of prog metal

Voivod, Dream Theater, Watchtower and the explosive birth of prog metal

Metal Hammer by Dave Everley

The inside story of how 80s metal story changed prog forever

"Alice In Chains’ Facelift: the grunge masterpiece that kickstarted the 90s

Alice In Chains’ Facelift: the grunge masterpiece that kickstarted the 90s

Metal Hammer by Stephen Hill  /

Alice In Chains debut Facelift was the first grunge album to break into the mainstream. For the band who made it, things would never be the same again

"Metal’s most interesting voices are all female – and it’s about time

Metal’s most interesting voices are all female – and it’s about time

 Metal Hammer by Stephen Hill  

Women are finally being given the platform to provide some fresh perspectives

"The East German Secret Police’s Illustrated Guide for Identifying Youth Subcultures: Punks, Goths, Teds & More (1985)

The East German Secret Police’s Illustrated Guide for Identifying Youth Subcultures: Punks, Goths, Teds & More (1985)

Open Culture by Colin Marshall  /ide

Ask Germans who lived under the German Democratic Republic what they feared most in those days, and they'll likely say the agents of the Ministry for State Security, best known as the Stasi. Ask those same Germans what they laughed at most in those days, and they may well give the same answer. As one of the most thoroughly repressive secret police forces in human history, the Stasi kept a close eye and a tight grip on East German society: as one oft-told joke goes, "Why do Stasi officers make such good taxi drivers? You get in the car and they already know your name and where you live." But this fearsome vigilance went hand-in-hand with technological limitation as well as plain ineptitude:  "How can you tell that the Stasi has bugged your apartment?" another joke asks. "There's a new cabinet in it and a trailer with a generator in the street."

When the Stasi turned this kind of crude but intense scrutiny to certain aspects of life, the results almost satirized themselves. Take, for instance, this circa-1985 internal guide used to identify the "types of negative decadent youth cultures in the German Democratic Republic," posted on Twitter by musician and writer S. Alexander Reed and later translated into English by a few of his followers.