Jeff Wagner is pissed. The author of “Mean Deviation: Four Decades Of Progressive Heavy Metal” and former Metal Maniacs editor is pulling together a book on Peter Steele and Type O Negative. He’s got one problem. The band’s surviving members want nothing to do with it. And he’s fucking pissed. “I’m disappointed in the recent Read More
I gotta say, I dig it much more than I did that last album cover. This one’s fucking sick. I love how the fog and the tombstones come together to form a wicked animal skull. Probably a horse skull, but to be honest, I have never seen a horse skull before. The imagery of the Read More
A complete list of all of the releases planned for this year’s Record Store Day has been released, and much to my surprise, two of my favorite records are getting reissued on 12-inch vinyl. Lamb of God’s New American Gospel and Cave In’s Until Your Heart Stops are both being reissued, which means I better Read More
REALLY? Seriously? I know they shift units, but dude…The Devil Wears Prada are fucking lame. I can’t understand how people are into them just as I can’t understand why anyone would listen to the smooth sounds of Natalie Cole. For reals? I don’t get these dudes or why they’re good, but maybe that’s why I Read More
And it’s even authorized! Meaning, the family of the late Type O Negative and Carnivore frontman have signed off on the project! Called “Soul On Fire,” Peter Steele’s biography is being worked on at this very moment. Not by me, alas — but by metal journalist Jeff Wagner. The book will be “a comprehensive investigation Read More
Yes, folks — it’s true! A Pale Horse Named Death — the band founded by Sal Abruscato of Type O Negative and Life of Agony — have completed the mastering phase of their forthcoming sophomore release on Steamhammer/SPV. Today, the band confirmed the title of the new album is Lay My Soul to Waste. The Read More
It’s coming. The second A Pale Horse Named Death album is coming. The band, founded by Sal Abruscato of Type O Negative and Life of Agony, will release its sophomore album on May 27 through Steamhammer/SPV. The new album will be mastered on January 17 by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound in New York City. Read More
We don’t know yet what it’ll be called but the next album from A Pale Horse Named Death will be coming late this spring. A press release today announced the follow up to the band’s critically acclaimed debut And Hell Will Follow Me will be released by SPV Records. The band has once again commissioned Read More
About a month ago, I received an email from a huge Madonna-loving metalhead I know up in Massachusetts, urging me to chat with guitarist Monte Pittman. I had never heard of Pittman before, but was told he’s been Madonna’s guitarist for a dozen years now — which, admittedly, isn’t the most metal thing one could Read More
A week or so ago, Monte Conner — a well-known and well-respected A&R dude who was with Roadrunner Records for a fucking king’s age — upped and left the label he helped helm, basically. I didn’t report on it because I have heard varying accounts on Conner’s rep. Some say he’s mad chill, others say Read More