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Creation (Of the Wicked)

The best album of the new year?

If H.R. Giger were President

This will be epic

by Chris Rowella It's impossible to surf the Internet this time of year without running into "best of" lists. As I get older, their appeal has waned. With releases growing exponentially each year, listing favorites has become a pain in the ass ...

No Halloween would be complete without, er, Helloween. Here's an artifact from that band's checkered past. It may be the first ever usage of the term "death metal." In 1984, death metal hadn't been invented yet, so instead we get artwork of a cannibal corpse eating guts that look like caramel apples — a Halloween delight, indeed. Hellow... Read More ...

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/rTlBua7mfao&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0 The honeymoon is over for Barack Obama. Many are questioning the effectiveness of a President elected on virtually messianic terms. I believe he is doing the best he can under difficult conditions ...

Ooh! The Roadburn Festival has chosen Tom G. Warrior as its curator for 2010. By all accounts, this year's Neurosis-curated event was a hit, so Warrior's work is cut out for him. He will select 16 bands for the festival. His pals 1349 (reviewed here) will likely make the cut ...

Encyclopaedia Metallum is a great metal resource, but it's a funny beast. "Metalcore" bands like Himsa and Premonitions of War aren't listed, but to my ears they're pretty much metal bands. However, Switzerland's Nucleus Torn makes the cut, even though the vast majority of its debut full-length, Nihil (Prophecy Productions, 2006), is un-metallic...

When I heard that members of Knut and legendary Swiss tech-grinders Nostromo had formed a new band called Mumakil, I knew I had to hear them. And when their label, Overcome, posted clips on its site that scared the shit out of me every time I visited, I had to track them down...