Tuesday, December 8, 2020

" Metallica’s One: the story of the song that changed thrash metal

 Metallica’s One: the story of the song that changed thrash metal

How a song about a disfigured soldier made the biggest cult band in the world even bigger – and said goodbye to thrash metal once and for all

Sunday, December 6, 2020

Monday, November 30, 2020

" How Black Sabbath ditched the hippy dream and faced brutal reality on Paranoid

 How Black Sabbath ditched the hippy dream and faced brutal reality on Paranoid

With themes of war, madness and nuclear holocaust, Black Sabbath’s Paranoid remains the ultimate difficult second album. Fifty years on, we remember how it razed the rock’n’roll landscape

Monday, November 9, 2020

" Metal Musicians React To U.S. Election Counting

 Metal Musicians React To U.S. Election Counting

As the U.S. election is dominating the news cycle, and there isn't too much happening in the metal sphere, metal musicians have been opining on the ongoing vote counting happening in the current election. With record-setting voting, and a lot of mail-in ballots still left to count, the final tallies are still trickling in in […

" The rock world reacts to the US Presidential election

 The rock world reacts to the US Presidential election

Kiss, the Rolling Stones, Queen, Motley Crue, Lenny Kravitz, Halestorm and more strike conciliatory tone as US President-elect Joe Biden celebrates

" The Spinal Tap Stonehenge Debacle

 The Spinal Tap Stonehenge Debacle

This has to share some comedic DNA with a presidential press conference held at the Four Seasons–Four Seasons Total Landscaping, that is. Classic.

Sunday, November 1, 2020

"Why a small New Zealand town is suddenly the new rock capital of the universe

 Why a small New Zealand town is suddenly the new rock capital of the universe

The world endures lockdown and socially distanced live shows, but life has returned to normal and live shows are back in the small New Zealand town of Oamaru

Saturday, October 31, 2020

" The History of Soviet Rock: From the 70s Underground Rock Scene, to Soviet Punk & New Wave in the 1980s

 The History of Soviet Rock: From the 70s Underground Rock Scene, to Soviet Punk & New Wave in the 1980s

“As long as you’ve got a pack of cigarettes,” sings Viktor Tsoi, the Soviet Union’s biggest ever rock star, “life can’t be all that shabby.” When Tsoi died in a car crash in 1990, Please Kill Me writes, “it was, to a young person in the Soviet Union, as if Bob Dylan, James Dean and Muhammad Ali all died simultaneously.” When Yuliya Abasheva, born in the year of Tsoi’s death, first heard him sing, “I was thrilled to the core of my being. I literally fell in love with his music, and I immediately realized that I didn’t want to listen to any music but Kino.”

" The 10 creepiest metal songs ever

 The 10 creepiest metal songs ever

Let old school horror-metal freaks Possessor take you by the hand and guide you through 10 of the most skin-crawling metal songs known to man or ghoul

Friday, October 30, 2020

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

" The 10 heaviest metal riffs ever

 The 10 heaviest metal riffs ever

Spirit Adrift mastermind and riff connoisseur Nate Garrett on the heaviest noises ever forged in the name of metal

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Monday, October 12, 2020

"Guitar hacking with Eddie Van Halen

 Guitar hacking with Eddie Van Halen

In this reprinted piece from Popular Mechanics, 2015, the late, great Eddie Van Halen talks about how he modified his early guitars and amps to help create the unique guitar sounds for which he became famous.

My playing style really grew from the fact that I couldn't afford a distortion pedal.

— Read the rest

Friday, October 9, 2020

" Rock & Metal Musicians Pay Tribute to EDDIE VAN HALEN, RIP

 Rock & Metal Musicians Pay Tribute to EDDIE VAN HALEN, RIP

To say the entire rock world is shocked with the sudden, but not unexpected loss of guitar god Eddie Van Halen is an understatement. Not only would rock and metal never be the same, but music in general without the Van Halen guitarist. The dude was insanely innovative, seriously look up all the advancements he […]

Eddie Van Halen dead at 65

Legendary Van Halen guitarist Eddie Van Halen has died after a long battle with cancer
RIP Eddie Van Halen, Dead at 65

The Van Halen guitarist died after a battle with throat cancer.

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