Metal mayhem
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Well, it’s sort of a de facto Friday for many of us. Read more
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Four minutes of shred, friends. Read more
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Well, there was really no choice here: Read more
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This is all kinds of awesome: Eddie the Head, the demoniacal mascot of the British heavy metal group Iron Maiden, has made his way into the debating chamber of a Spanish town hall. Eddie’s cadaverous face appears regularly at council meetings in the town of Villava, in Navarre, as part of a war of political Read more
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Been listening to Florida “neo-thrash” act Trivium’s new album Shogun. Pretty good stuff–in some ways a better Metallica album than Death Magnetic. 🙂 Here’s “Down From the Sky”: Read more
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I’m not really capable of being objective about Metallica. I first heard them when I was, I think, 14 and on a school trip. A friend of mine passed me a badly copied cassette of Master of Puppets, I popped it into my wakman, and my world was completely and irrevocably rocked when I heard Read more
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I’m about one-third of the way through the new Metallica disc, “Death Magnetic,” and so far I’m very pleased. I had abandoned hope that there would be another good album from them in my lifetime. I might write up some more thoughts later, maybe with a broader appreciation of the band I started listening to Read more
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I don’t believe in affirmative action for “Christian” music– it should be held to the same standards as “secular” music. And by those standards–let’s admit it–the majority of contemporary Christian music is mediocre at best. But there are a few bright spots out there. Here’s a clip from Underoath, a Christian hard/metalcore band out of Read more
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There won’t be much posting this weekend as I’m taking the train up to New York to visit some friends, but I’ll leave you with a little Friday metal (which I’ve really been slacking on around here). Now, to me, the words “French heavy metal” sound about as exciting as “French beer,” but, turns out, Read more
A Thinking Reed 