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2xLP w/ included A4 booklet Sometimes reverb rules. Seven Chalices (Noevdia/AJNA Offensive/Dauthus, 2009) recalls classic “wet” sounds like Pleasure to Kill, Hell Awaits, and early Bathory. Five of its 11 tracks are interludes, forming almost a quarter of the record. This could be as bad as hip-hop, but the interludes are as interesting as the […]

Now that metal dating has worked out for you, what’s next? Why, a metal wedding, of course! Below are three videos of metal at weddings. – Cosmo Lee – – – Jimi and Jenny’s Heavy Metal Wedding http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/s8L-HAL8aiI&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0 “With this ring, I pledge my commitment to you, to metal, and to matrimony.” Perhaps unsurprisingly, this […]

Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of Van Halen’s debut. I’m reading Everybody Wants Some, Ian Christe’s fine biography of the band, and I’ve had fun revisiting the old records (that is, until the Sammy Hagar era; 5150 is fucking repulsive). They’re fascinatingly varied (Fair Warning and 1984 are almost polar opposites), but I keep coming […]

After metalcore, deathcore, and retro thrash, metal’s next trend looks to be retro true metal. At least that’s what Earache would have one believe. In recent years, the label has been decidedly retro, reissuing whatever it can from its (admittedly deep) catalogue and releasing a slew of retro thrash. Earache’s Thrashing Like a Maniac compilation […]