Global Metal (film)
http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/0C8Ybq__3Rg&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0Review by Cosmo Lee I finally got around to seeing Global Metal. It was a pleasant surprise — I’d call it essential — as I found Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey, the previous documentary by directors Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen, enjoyable but soft. That film was an overview of metal, an over-large task. Because its...
The Lamp of Thoth - Sing as You Slay
by Anthony Abboreno Wielding imagery of Victorian occultism and ’20s pulp, The Lamp of Thoth are an eccentric doom band. The cover of their latest EP, Sing as You Slay (Miskatonic Foundation, 2009), looks like the label for a bottle of 19th century medicine (“Do not ingest! May Cause Death!”). Their riffs are also hardly...