Metal mayhem
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The new In Flames album, A Sense of Purpose, comes out this Tuesday! Here’s the first single/video: Read more
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Um, nothing particularly spiritual about this clip, it’s just darn good. And, besides, I’ve missed a few of these. Also, these guys are Canadian, so it’s nice to see our northern cousins producing music that isn’t Bryan Adams, Alanis Morrisette, or Gordon Lightfoot. Read more
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Your humble scribe is between jobs and thus taking a (well-deserved, IMO) week’s vacation by flying to Germany to see an old college chum. So, what better way to mark the occasion than with a little German metal, specifically the seminal Scorpions fall of the Berlin Wall tune, “Winds of Change”? Posting will be light Read more
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I agree with pretty much every word of this review of Protest the Hero’s new album Fortress. I’ve been listeining to it more or less nonstop since it came out. Listen here. Read more
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Here’s the video for the new In Flames tune “The Mirror’s Truth,” from their album A Sense of Purpose due out in April. Read more
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Playing in front of an audience of over 250,000 fans in Rio de Janeiro in 2001. Read more
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The Grammy awards have been notorious for their obliviousness to what was actually going on in music, going back at least to how long it took them to catch on to this whole “rock ‘n’ roll” thing. And they’ve been particularly lacksidasical in recognizing metal performances, with the first award in the hard rock/metal category Read more
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Protest the Hero, “Heretics and Killers” Read more
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Two great tastes that taste great together. Well, sometimes… This particular cross-hybridization has spawned a lot of junk (Limp Bizkit, anyone?), but also some interesting stuff. Here’s a sampling: Onyx and Biohazard, “Judgment Night” (from the soundtrack of the movie by the same name; this featured a bunch of metal/rap team ups): Anthrax, “I’m The Read more
A Thinking Reed 