GunShyAssassin Presents Metal’s Top 25 Album Openers: #5 to #1

Posted by Jos. von Wienerhaus on May 17, 2013 in Exclusive, Featured, Rad

We’ve endeavored to assemble the most comprehensive, least-fuck-with-able list of metal’s 25 best album openers — a series that concludes today with the Top 5. 5. Joe Satriani, “Surfing With The Alien” I was mesmerized when I first heard this song; it was easily the coolest thing to ever lay waste to my ears. Guitar Read More

GunShyAssassin Presents Metal’s Top 25 Album Openers: #10 to #6

Posted by Jos. von Wienerhaus on May 16, 2013 in Exclusive, Featured, Rad

We’ve endeavored to assemble the most comprehensive, least-fuck-with-able list of metal’s 25 best album openers — a series that runs all week, and continues today with numbers 10 to 6. 10. Mercyful Fate, “A Dangerous Meeting” The opening track off of the landmark Don’t Break The Oath features a lone guitar with the second sliding Read More

College Offering Degree In Heavy Metal

Posted by Chris Harris on May 10, 2013 in Featured, News

It’s true, people. Not sure what you’d do with it, seeing as the history of metal is well-documented and overanalyzed already. If I see one more book released about the history of metal, I may just scream. The BBC claims New College Nottingham (NCN) — one of the largest further education colleges in the U.K. Read More

Top 25 Album Openers…And Contest

Posted by Jos. von Wienerhaus on May 10, 2013 in Contests, Exclusive, Featured, Rad

Next week, we will unveil our list of metal’s Top 25 Album Openers over the course of all five days. Initially, this started out as just a Top 10 list, but there are far too many killer opening songs to confine the list to a mere ten, so we got ambitious. There are a couple Read More

Does David Draiman Read This Site?

Posted by Chris Harris on May 3, 2013 in News

Disturbed and Device frontman David Draiman has posted a lengthy message on his Twitter account. Once again, it was all in CAPS, as Dave — perennial winner of the “Cheesiest Piercing Ever” award — is want to do. We de-CAPSed it for you heathens, so you could read his idiocy…I mean, opinion without feeling overwhelmed. Read More

Heavy Metal Conference Held

Posted by Chris Harris on April 21, 2013 in Huh?, News

I love it when scholarly types get together to deeply analyze metal as a genre. I just think there’s better things to do with my time. Like masturbate. Or sleep. Or anything else. Yet, the inaugural “Heavy Metal And Popular Culture” conference was nevertheless held in early April at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Read More

Shameless Self Promotion: I’m Doing A Radio Show Tomorrow Night!

Posted by Chris Harris on April 18, 2013 in News

So, all week, I’ve been trying to subtly promote this radio show that I will be hosting tomorrow night on the limited airwaves of my alma matter, the State University of New York at Oneonta. That’s right, folks. I am going back to my old college town in UpState New York after 15 years away, Read More

Readers’ Bands: Like Meshuggah? Check Out Avolation

Posted by Chris Harris on April 17, 2013 in Exclusive, Featured, Readers' Bands

Some bands claim to sound like Meshuggah and don’t. Others don’t claim to sound like Meshuggah, but do. We live in a weird world. To the best of my knowledge, Avolation are not one of those bands who portend to sound like Meshuggah. But they do. They actually sound like a lot of awesome bands, Read More

Arsis Release Lyric Video

Posted by Chris Harris on April 12, 2013 in New Records, News, Video

I know it’s not breaking fucking news, but Arsis did release a lyric video today. You can see that video at the end of this post. If you want. They’re not the most exciting things in the world, lyric videos. In fact, I usually don’t post about these lyric videos. But this one’s from Arsis, Read More

Chinese Dissident Artist To Release Metal Album

Posted by Chris Harris on March 11, 2013 in Huh?, New Records, News

That’s just what we need. While I appreciate and support the courage of Ai Weiwei, we don’t need a metal record from the Chinese dissident and countercultural artist. But Reuters reports it’s happening anyways. It will be called Divina Commedia, after the poem by Italian poet Dante.