February 1, 2010

Metal pronunciations

MAR-duck? MAR-duke? Mar-DUKE?by Cosmo Lee What metal names can’t you pronounce? Let’s help each other out. Use English words and syllables to denote pronunciation, with all caps for syllabic stress. For example, Metallica’s bassist is Robert True-HEE-yo. Got it? Good. I’ve listed some names below that perpetually stump me. Can you help? – – –...

It pays to read this blog

by Cosmo Lee Someone read this blog and signed a band as a result. That someone was Digby Pearson of Earache, and the band is Wormrot. According to this post on Earache’s blog, Digby downloaded our grindcore mixtape, loved the Wormrot track, got hip to the Grind and Punishment blog (whose Andrew Childers compiled the...