Metal mayhem
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Cover of the immortal Sabbath classic: Read more
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I saw these guys a few weeks ago with The Faceless and In Flames. Fantastic. Read more
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An acquired taste, to be sure: Read more
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How does iTunes justify charging 99 cents for Napalm Death’s “You Suffer,” which, I believe, holds the Guinness world record for shortest song ever recorded (4 seconds!)? Of course, you can get the entire album–28 songs–for $5.99. (In this video the song ends at 0:03.) Read more
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First Gojira, now these guys. The French are really making a play for metal powerhouse on the world stage. Read more
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Just discovered these guys this week. Kind of Meshuggah meets Faith No More (if that makes any sense): Read more
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The video’s kind of cheesy, but the song rules, and the album–which just came out this week–is great: Read more
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The grand-daddies of grindcore: Read more
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There was a very entertaining article in this Sunday’s Washington Post Magazine about the grindcore band Pig Destroyer and one man’s attempt to understand the appeal of the death metal genre. The profiles of the band members are very interesting too: these aren’t guys with delusions of becoming rock stars. They hold down day jobs, Read more
A Thinking Reed 