Music with guitars that have some bite.
Black metal is a silly genre of medieval posturing, unlistenable production aesthetics, and reprehensible personalities. As such, it is bound to attract a unique set of fans. Today I'm taking a look at …
Silent films were never actually played silent--even prior to the 1900s they almost always had some manner of musical accompaniment. From a simple house pianist to a full blown orchestra for larger cities, there was …
Metal [or, at least the metal I listen to] is a simple genre, and if a large part of your riffage is confined to a palm muted e string and simple tremolo picked minor scales …
Metalheads love gatekeeping, and most common way to gatekeep is to keep a running list of UNTRVE bands. Sure, we haven't actually LISTENED to the bands on our list, but we know if we …
I'm in the middle of a built-in record shelf project to house my vinyl collection, and, because I'll finally be able to consolidate all of my various overflow shelves into one place, I'm getting pretty …
I know I just did a "going through my C://users/Isley/desktop/organize/RANDOM/desktop_stuff_to_organize folder and posting a bunch of random memes I found" post, but I had a few more memes of a heavy kind. As usual, …
FUBU metalhead books are few and far between, so even though John Wray's new novel Gone to the Wolves features neither assassins nor dragons, I was happy to add it in to my standard rotation …
I've taken a closer look at the various ways the neo-Nazi black metal underground hides in plain sight before. For every band that has the word "aryan" in their name and a swastika in …
I am fully aware that even the "frightening" black metal outfits are mostly just kind of silly and impractical (depending on how extreme they go with the carpentry nails). But, if you can buy …
Uriah Heep, I had always assumed, was one of those bands like Molly Hatchet. You know the bands I'm talking about, the ones whose music is light years behind the potential of their album …