Metallica - Megaforce demo (1983)
Many thanks to Umlaut for providing me with this curio. It’s a two-song demo from early 1983 — see full details here — Metallica’s first recording with Cliff Burton, and the only recording featuring both Burton and Dave Mustaine. You can download it here. No Remorse (demo w/Mustaine)No Remorse (Kill ‘Em All w/Kirk Hammett) When...
Black Cobra - Chronomega
In the summer of 1993, I saw Miami, FL’s legendary Cavity. Having never heard anything like Cavity, I was floored by their sound and performance. (The singer pulled off his pants and hung upside down from the rafters with dangling cock and balls, shocking the suburban teenage audience). A decade and a half later, Cavity...
More stage banter: Paul Stanley, Tom Araya, Mercyful Fate, Venom, Scott Vogel
The response to the Fugazi stage banter post was so great that I thought I’d share some similar treasures that you guys unearthed. — Cosmo Lee – – – Paul Stanley stage banter 65 and a half minutes of Paul Stanley blathering between songs gets to be tedious. But, man, can he do an acapella....
Aetherius Obscuritas: Gay pr0n or black metal?
Now, that title isn’t really a dis. In fact, Aetherius Obscuritas is a fine black metal band that’s really grown over the years. But music hasn’t been the only thing that’s grown. In my review of the band’s latest album Black Medicine (Paragon, 2009), I noted a possible correlation between body type and music type....