Saturday, April 25, 2015

"42 Famous Movie Theme Songs Gone Metal

42 Famous Movie Theme Songs Gone Metal
The Exorcist! Beetlejuice! A bunch of other ones! You'll enjoy this. We promise.

"AL-NAMROOD Is A Saudi Anti-Islamic Black Metal Band That's Breaking The Law By Merely Existing

This is definitely going to be the most interesting thing you'll read all day.

"SLAYER's Kerry King Calls Dave Mustaine "Crazy" And Wonders How MEGADETH Keeps Any Members

"I don't know how anybody can be in Megadeth for more than a couple of hours, 'cause that guy's crazy."

"Slayer brought together by Hanneman's death

Slayer frontman Tom Araya says the death of Jeff Hanneman has brought the band closer together.

Friday, April 17, 2015

Thursday, April 16, 2015

"Jimi Hendrix was such a bad tenant, Ringo evicted him

Jimi-hendrix-montagu
Image: Petra Niemeier - K & K/Redferns / Getty Images
34 Montagu Square, in Marylebone, London, is a part of music history. Beatles drummer Ringo Starr leased the ground-floor and basement apartment in the mid-1960s, and Paul McCartney created several Beatles demos there in 1965, including "I'm Looking Through You" from the album Revolver.

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

"System of a Down review – noir-rock epics and the history of genocide

System of a Down review – noir-rock epics and the history of genocide
Wembley arena, London
The American-Armenian skull-pummelers deliver some worthy political messages amid a messy sprawl of intricate, disjointed hardcore
The entry queues are chaotic, the toilets are overflowing, and the PA pours out a relentless two-hour bombardment of math metal, violent thrash rock and Armenian folk anthems. Yet, if it feels as if Californian skull-pummelers System of a Down are trying to make Wembley feel like its own downtrodden mini-state, we’re soon put in our place. The Wake Up the Souls tour marks the 100th anniversary of the 1915 Armenian genocide – a subject close to the hearts of these four politically voracious Armenian-Americans – and animated histories of that and subsequent genocides in the second world war, Rwanda and Cambodia are played out on the screens during interludes in the set, narrated by Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello. So, suitably humbled, we endure.