Brian Fair’s That First Step’s A Doozy: Super Bowl Shuffle

Posted by Brian Fair on February 3, 2012 in Brian Fair’s That First Step’s A Doozy, Exclusive, Featured

Shadows Fall frontman Brian Fair is back with the latest installment of his Gun Shy Assassin column, and he’s here to talk about Sunday’s big game First off, I just wanted to say that when Gun Shy Assassin first asked me about writing a column about the Super Bowl I was hesitant. I have always Read More

Gun Shy Assassin Presents Adler Chatter With Chris Adler

Posted by Chris Harris on February 1, 2012 in Adler Chatter with Chris Adler, Exclusive, Featured

For more than a year now, Gun Shy Assassin has brought you a series of intimate interviews with Chris Adler, the punishing drummer for Lamb of God. Today, we learned the band’s new album opened at #3 on the Top 200 albums sales chart, with 52,000 copies sold. Now, here is our next installment — Read More

Gun Shy Assassin Presents Adler Chatter With Chris Adler

Posted by Chris Harris on January 25, 2012 in Adler Chatter with Chris Adler, Exclusive, Featured

For more than a year now, Gun Shy Assassin has brought you a series of intimate interviews with Chris Adler, the punishing drummer for Lamb of God. That series continues, even now that the new record is in stores. It’s a GSA exclusive, and it’s awesome, baby! So…did you get the record yet? I did Read More

Gun Shy Assassin Presents Adler Chatter With Chris Adler

Posted by Chris Harris on January 19, 2012 in Adler Chatter with Chris Adler, Exclusive, Featured

We’re less than a week away from the release of Lamb of God’s new album, and now, have amassed more than a year of Adler Chatters. What an opportunity! We are lucky to have a pal like Chris, because for the last year, we’ve been able to chronicle — in some small way — the Read More

Riotgod Exclusive Song Stream: “Crossfade”

Posted by Chris Harris on January 9, 2012 in Exclusive, Featured, Song Debuts

What’s that you say? Not familiar with Riotgod? Well, that’s about to fucking change, son. Riotgod began in spirit through conversations between Monster Magnet’s Bob Pantella and Jim Baglino while out on tour as early as 2006. Both wanted a new forum to be able to express themselves. During their time off the road, the Read More

Exclusive: Gaza Album Title Revealed

Posted by Chris Harris on January 6, 2012 in Exclusive, Featured, News

Gee whiz. Our first true bit of breaking news for 2012: the title to Gaza’s forthcoming album. The news comes courtesy of Jesse James Madre, vocalist for Tiger Flowers and a dude I definitely need to fucking party with in 2012 — I will be Saturday, at ABC No Rio. That’s right, folks. Come on Read More

Martyrd Exclusive Song Stream: “Avarice”

Posted by Chris Harris on January 5, 2012 in Exclusive, Featured, Song Debuts

The year is 2012. We’re just five days in, and already, I’m introducing you to some new shit you’re going to fucking dig like Danzig. The band’s called Martyrd. That’s no typo — it’s Martyrd. Not Martyred or Maryturd but Martyrd, and they’re a kick-ass New York-based metal troupe that play fast, play precise, and Read More

Gun Shy Assassin Presents Adler Chatter With Chris Adler

Posted by Chris Harris on December 29, 2011 in Adler Chatter with Chris Adler, Exclusive

For months, we have been running a series of brief conversations with Chris Adler as he’s gone through the process of recording the new Lamb of God album Resolution. Often, our conversations center around Chris’ life — and often, his obsession with mint cookie ice cream. Of course, Chris will continue to be checking in Read More

Band Manager Tommy Galond’s Top 10 Of 2011

Posted by Chris Harris on December 12, 2011 in Exclusive, Huh?

We put out a call here at Gun Shy Assassin to various folks in the industry seeking their Top 10 albums of 2011, and most people told us they were too busy Christmas shopping to give a fuck. But some folks did respond, and we’ll be bringing you their lists over the next couple of Read More

Horrendous Exclusive Song Stream: “The Womb”

Posted by Chris Harris on December 9, 2011 in Exclusive, Featured, Song Debuts

On January 2, Dark Descent Records will release the highly-anticipated CD follow-up to the twice-pressed Sweet Blasphemies cassette from East Coast sons of filth Horrendous. Dude, all I am going to say is after the jump, we have an exclusive stream for you from your new favorite band: Horrendous. The song is called “The Womb,” Read More