Articles tagged "heavy metal"

Column: The Rockist

Metal, Back from Purgatory

by Michael Brett

[6.Nov.09] :. The Rockist attends his most eagerly anticipated metal show in over a decade only to find... the Banana Splits?

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Sound Affects

Alice Cooper - “Hey Stoopid”

by Matt White

[2.Apr.09] :. In the summer of 1991 I was 9 years old and my musical taste was pretty sophisticated; I had moved on from a second grade obsession with New Kids On The Block and had lately been digging newcomers...

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News

Rhino readies a huge dose of heavy metal thunder

by Ben Wener [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[14.Aug.07] :. What’s that? You say you regularly sing Satan’s praises while thrashing yourself silly to the sounds of Killswitch Engage and Cradle of Filth but you have no deeper understanding of the...

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Capsule Reviews

The Destro: As the Coil Unwinds

by Andrew Blackie

[27.Jun.07] :. Another band declare themselves outcasts of society and saviors of blasting, in-your-face metal.

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Vintersorg: Solens Rötter

by Andrew Blackie

[25.May.07] :. One of metal's busiest artists keeps the quality up.

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Music Review

Machine Head: The Blackening

by Adrien Begrand

[10.May.07] :. To be completely honest, we didn't see this coming at all. But who could have?

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Heaven and Hell

by Adam Williams

[27.Apr.07] :. While the band morphed so many times that it's tough to call anything a true Sabbath reunion, everyone and their stud-jacket granny is calling it that. Ozzy who?

 

Out of Shadows, Shining Ever-Bright

by Adrien Begrand

[26.Apr.07] :. After catching the reunited '80s-era, Ronnie James Dio-helmed Black Sabbath on tour in Canada, Begrand looks back on an oft-neglected period in the metal titans' career.

 

Black Sabbath: The Dio Years

by Adrien Begrand

[24.Apr.07] :. Ronnie James Dio's tenure in Black Sabbath was brief, but it resulted in some of the greatest songs in heavy metal history.

 

Static-X: Cannibal

by Andrew Blackie

[23.Apr.07] :. The bitch is back. Static-X puts the pedal back to the metal on their fifth album.

 

Fight or Flight: The Dichotomy of Manowar

by Adrien Begrand

[26.Mar.07] :. True metal believers or a mousse-abusing joke? Begrand explores how Manowar, one of the most polarizing and contradictory metal bands of all time, can simultaneously flaunt Spinal Tap-isms and ignite a crowd of 30,000 screaming fans.

 

Static-X: Start a War

by Mike Schiller

[13.Jun.05] :. Start a War sees the return of some old friends and an old sound. Welcome home.

 

Static-X: Machine

by Ryan Tranquilla

In the lack of anything new to add, the current band’s musical failings overshadow their angry insistence on their personal shortcomings.