10,000 metal releases came out this year
Click to enlargeby Cosmo Lee Metal-archives.com, metal’s great database, has interesting search capabilities. I did searches for the total number of metal releases, full-lengths, and demos per year for the past 30 years. “Releases” constitute all media formats: full-lengths, demos, box sets, DVD’s, and so on. Above are the results as a graph (click to...
Junius - The Martyrdom of a Catastrophist
Photo by learydotmarkReview by Casey Boland Can ass-kicking rock be intelligent? By its very nature, rock (and its subsets from punk to metal) is decidedly crude and visceral. Its primal instincts arguably preclude the need or desire to give it a brain. Let’s face it: few fans consume albums or go to shows to be...