“Getting signed is sometimes the death of a band”-Dewin Townsend,Working Class Rock Star
So for some weird reason, Metal Documentaries is the new thing. I mean there are every where you look. “Heavy Metal in Bhagdad”,Sam Dunn’s upcoming “Global Metal”, “The Story of Thrash”-I mean they are everywhere! It’s only a matter of time this becomes the next KISS.
Anyways,this other Documentary/Movie “Working Class Rock Star” does seem like [...]
The Encyclopedia of Swedish Death Metal-seemingly genuine attempt with a little bit of “Tape Hiss=Underground” bullshit!
This year has so far been massive as far as Metaliterature is concerened.Everything from “The Bloody Reign of SLAYER” to “True Norwegian Black Metal“.And now there’s going to be an Encyclopedia on Swedish Death Metal,or rather “1988-1992 Swedish Death Metal”.This “limitation” is the only bit I consider to be the “Tape Hiss=Underground Bullshit”(I really can’t [...]
Nostradamus-An in-depth analysis of the new Judas Priest single and how it depicts “the man’s” life
Yes,the song focuses a lot more on the man Nostradamus was than the “mystery” he is /was.We’ll go there and infact that’s what we’ll be discussing through out this blog post,but before that,let me give you a little bit of a summary of my “Metal-mysteries-reasearch” background and why I believe Metal is just more than [...]
I really need the SLAYER book-”The Bloody Reign of SLAYER”
“The Bloody Reign of SLAYER” has to be undoubtably the one publication I’ve waited for so eagerly after my first science book.Irony is one of those little things that can make our lives happier,believe me though lame it may sound.
Anyways,The bloody Reign of SLAYER-the book is called.And if you’ve been a keen reader of popular metal/rock/guitar mags [...]
Kevin Estrada photo-blog now active
Surely you must’ve heard of Kevin Estrada at some point in your life.If you haven’t heard of a man who has dedicated more than twenty years of his life just to catch the musicians he loves so much on film,you’ve really been living under a rock or something.However if you did not know about him,well….now you know,so let’s move [...]
The Ten Commandments of Rock Journalism
To start with,being a metal journalist is completely different from being an ordinary music journalist.Unlike the music journalist who would review the latest Jazz album to hit stores,over coffee by the fire,the metal journalist would rather like to find themselves in a pit in Wacken or shouting out “Maiden! Maiden!” alongside another fifty thousand metal-heads at [...]
