During the surrealistic days following the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, I made many failed attempts at contacting my close friend Val, who recently parted ways with her former New York-based rock band, Pist On to seek other ventures. Val is a native of New York, and a resident of Lower Manhattan. …
Are you ready for something entirely different? Something unexpected and fresh but from a very old soul? Ready to expand your mind? Then take my hand and allow me to lead you down some brand new roads while we give this music a spin as our soundtrack. Perry Farrell is about to whisk us away …
Morbid Angel, Skrape, Static-X, Slayer… and PanFUCKINGtera. There is nothing quite like walking into a venue the size of the Goodyear blimp and having Morbid Angel greet you when you arrive, you know? If you’ve never experienced anything even close to this type of adrenaline rush, let me do the honors of guiding you through …
– What do you think people should know about otep? that what u see during a ritual, what u hear on our album, everything we do is REAL. nothing is fabricated. the music is the image, not the other way around …. wurdz are our war paint …. truth is our armor …. our live …
According to the commercial, nothing satisfies that hunger for something crunchy and chewy and filling better than Snickers bar. Well, this writer begs to differ. You see, something has come along that is just as good, if not better, at satisfying that urge than a Snickers. And this has zero calories, but just enough “phat” …
Without attitude or arrogance, and quite possibly without even knowing it, Aimee Echo has been the voice of a generation of hardworking, fearless women in rock that do not know the meaning of the word “quit”. After fronting one of the most promising bands of 2000 (Human Waste Project), enduring the heartbreak of friend Lynn …
For a true fan of heavy music, grooving on something that is not overly negative or intense or frenetic (or even that loud) is good therapy once in a while. Sometimes the sensory overload that comes with the non-stop influx of up and coming metal bands can only be cured by something that lives somewhere …
Wayne Static and the boys have all taken a brazen nosedive off of the highest cliff without a parachute with the release of their latest Warner Bros. Records masterpiece, Machine. The disc is packed with nearly 45 minutes of sound in the form of 12 searing tracks that will give your brain and your ears …
There is something so powerful about the way Agrokulcher sounds that it is nearly impossible to describe. Journalists who are familiar with the band have made many failed attempts to classify the music, carelessly tossing it into a “Goth” bin or worse, comparing them to that band that begins with a “K”. Let’s not even …
This band hit me like a freight train the very first time I heard them play at the Troubadour in West Hollywood some months ago. Since then, I have remained in hot pursuit of all of the material I can get from Elemental. I recently obtained the band’s a devastating 4-song demo, The April Sessions …