TIL: Sharks are attracted to the sound of death metal. Apparently, the "dense tones" of it mimics the "low frequencies of struggling fish." (Damn.)
Thursday, February 21, 2019
"A new documentary goes inside Nepal’s electrifying metal scene
No Silence: Heavy Metal From Nepal documents Kathmandu’s Silence Festival and the rise of local metal heroes Underside
Sunday, February 17, 2019
"SLAYER's Show No Mercy Minotaur Has Its Own Action Figure
It does not give final commands either.
The post SLAYER's <em>Show No Mercy</em> Minotaur Has Its Own Action Figure appeared first on Metal Injection.
Saturday, February 16, 2019
"Voivod, Dream Theater, Watchtower and the explosive birth of prog metal
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 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
Women are finally being given the platform to provide some fresh perspectives
Thursday, February 14, 2019
"The East German Secret Police’s Illustrated Guide for Identifying Youth Subcultures: Punks, Goths, Teds & More (1985)
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.
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
"The definitive history of every Slipknot mask
With Slipknot’s sixth album on the horizon, we look back at the evolution of the nine members’ masks
"How Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son lifted Iron Maiden to heavy metal immortality
The epic concept album was more than just Iron Maiden’s most successful album of the 1980s – it was their masterpiece
Friday, February 8, 2019
"How the entire f**king world jumped on the Slayer bandwagon
Kendall Jenner, Rita Ora, rappers, Hot Topic – everybody wants a piece of Slayer
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