Posts Tagged ‘Article’
Forging the Blade, A Metal Retrospective, Vol. 13: VENOM
Forging the Blade, A Metal Retrospective, Vol. 13: VENOM by Andy Bang The History of Black Metal Black metal is an extreme sub-genre of heavy metal music. It often uses fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat [Read More]
Forging the Blade, A Metal Retrospective, Vol. 25: KREATOR
Forging the Blade, A Metal Retrospective, Vol. 25: KREATOR by Andy Bang The History of Teutonic Thrash Teutonic thrash metal is a regional scene of thrash metal music that originated during the 1980s in Germany. Along with Bay Area thrash metal, East Coast thrash [Read More]
Definition of a Dive Bar
DEFINITION OF A DIVE BAR by Jim Slimedog (The following is about a bar I knew in California when I lived there for a couple of years, I’m sure plenty of you folks have your favorite dive bar. Write about it and send it in and we’ll buy you a drink the next time we [Read More]
Forging the Blade, A Metal Retrospective, Vol. 22: SLAYER
Forging the Blade, A Metal Retrospective, Vol. 22: SLAYER by Andy Bang The History of Thrash Thrash metal emerged in the early 1980s under the influence of hardcore punk and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM), particularly songs in the revved-up style known [Read More]
Michael ‘Wurzel’ Burston – RIP
Motorhead’s Michael ‘Wurzel’ Burston died while pouring a pint of Guinness, the band have announced. The guitarist, who joined Motorhead in 1984 before leaving in 1995, died on July 9. He was 61. In a statement, his former bandmates said: “We are greatly [Read More]
In Defense of Punk Bands Everywhere
One thing that gets me is when people get on new or current punk bands and claim these bands are just rehashing old stuff. They imply that they’re just copying the Ramones or some other well known classic punk band. First of all, the folks who make this claim aren’t [Read More]
Raw Power’s Death Trip
Is everyone aware how revered Iggy Pop was by the first wave of punk rockers, New York and London especially? Bands such as The Sex Pistols, The Damned, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, The Dictators, Dead Boys, Blondie and others all covered his band at least live and [Read More]
Fairies Do Wear Boots …
Fortunately, we live in a time where no one has to wake up to that annoying buzz of those old fashion alarm clocks. Personally I like to use an app on my iPhone that wakes me up to one of my all time favorite tunes. I’m sure, from the title of this article, you [Read More]
Beat On The Brat
Can you remember the first time you listened to a record or cd that meant a lot to you? Well I don’t know how many hundreds (thousands?) of records, cassettes and cds I’ve listened to in my ninety-seven years, but I can only recall one that held a lot of significance to [Read More]
