Music that is not metal.
Germs were a hardcore band that were probably best known (at least to those outside the punk scene) from their infamous appearance on The Decline of Western Civilization. In that documentary (covering the LA …
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 …
Goth, like black metal, went through a few waves on its journey from post-punk bands with bad hair to emo kids dancing under bridges (still with bad hair). Today's band, Switchblade Symphony, comes from …
Russ Meyers, infamous for low budget titty movies, took a foray into modest budget titty movies with 1970's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Not only was it, like the rest of his oeuvre, …
I've talked about disco on MKM before, and even about the Pet Shop Boys before, but I've never featured a song that was quite SO disco and quite SO Pet Shop Boys as today's song: https://isleyunruh.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Pet-Shop-Boys-New-York-City-Boy-Thunderpuss-2000-Club-Mix.mp3 I …
I always have to stop myself when I say I like “all kinds of music”. Because, honestly, that just isn’t true, there is really only one kind of music I like. No, not [just] black metal, …
I always have to stop myself when I say I like “all kinds of music”. Because, honestly, that just isn’t true, there is really only one kind of music I like. No, not [just] Black …
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As an apology for last year's Christmas playlist of underground black/death metal songs, I thought I'd do a list this year of songs that actually celebrate the birth of Jesus, rather than decrying his lack …
It's no secret that I love me some folk music. My first exposure to folk music was pretty much every black metal fan's first exposure to folk music--via neofolk music. After bands like Death in …