I’ve seen a lot of strippers take it all off to Pantera songs. Perhaps it’s the down home Southern flavor that appeals to them; that slow, sexy, and deliberate groove. Maybe it’s the sheer velocity of the heavy parts that makes those girls want to get naked and get down. Rest assured though, you’re going …

With an explosion like a shower of shrapnel in your face, Depswa comes flying right out of your speakers and infects your head for a long time after listening. This is some of the most powerful and intense metal I’ve had the experience of hearing in a while. The tribal elements of the drums, and …

Two Hit Creeper scares me. Not only do they get an ‘A’ for originality, but they get an ‘A+’ for frightening me to the bones. Watching Mike and Jim is truly an experience for your senses. This is a two-piece band, whose live show takes on an almost ‘performance art’ feel to it. Two Hit …

Rice n’ Beans have had their respective axes to the grindstone for a lot of years; over ten of them, to be more precise. They’ve got 3 indie CDs in circulation, an arsenal of show dates under their belts, and there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight. With origins of family and culture …

Take some Fear Factory, a dash of Slipknot, and one of your favorite new hardcore bands; pour them in, close the lid, and hit the ‘impale’ button on your electric blender, and you’ve got yourself a Chimaira smoothie. I’m not promising you anything nutritious, or even good for you, for that matter, but you’re definitely …

There are very few heavy bands that have female vocalists that I can really get into. I know it sounds totally biased, especially coming from a female, but I’ve always found it hard to take many female ‘metal’ vocalists seriously, mainly because they try to be something they’re not; male! Many female singers that play …

Remember how Metallica’s ‘Ride the Lightning‘ started off with that cool acoustic piece? Well..Wiredshut, Shawn Bier (Throat), Glen Telford (Guitar), White Mike (Keyboards/Samples), Steve Moore (Drums), Scott Kiyoshi Matsuda (Bass), takes it a step further with ‘Militant Government’, the first track on the four-song demo. It’s a lot longer than Metallica, sounds a lot better, …

It’s a love/hate thing for most people. Some dismiss this band as a pretty-boy, teenybopper thing, and others take them far too seriously. Some just listen and don’t say anything. Some just feel. When it comes to Bush, I’ve always been one of those people that just feels. Or at least I try, in the …

Step Kings have been at it for a few years now. The band put out an EP a while back that was well-recieved, then eventually captured the attention of Roadrunner Records, and have officially arrived with “Let’s Get it On” which is scheduled for a Spring 2000 release. The 12-song debut from this 3-piece band …

First of all, let me just say that the very reason why I was interested in giving this band a listen was because I thought the name they chose was so damn cool. It invokes images in my brain of a crystal skull, and other visions of the jaw of that skull being smashed to …