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Easy Listening: A Playlist that Proves Metal isn't as Inaccessible as You Think

By Austin L. Ray, Photos by Jason Reed on 7:00 AM on August 22, 2009

For many, "metal" might as well be a swear word. People wrinkle their noses at the term, and treat it like some wholly unapproachable genre fraught with Cookie Monster vocals, overwhelming guitar riffs, etc. "Yeah, yeah, I know metal," you might say. But with all due respect, you probably don't. And neither do I, really—I'm only in the early stages of an appreciation I can tell is going to take a while to fully develop. Metal is a complex beast, far too varied to be pigeonholed into a simple description. Its sub-genres, from doom to thrash to sludge to so... read more

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Baroness Studio Diary - 5/27/09

By Summer Welch on 2:15 PM on May 28, 2009

I awake around 7:30 this morning. The same time as yesterday, and the day before that. I believe I have been waking up at 7:30 for a couple months now. We aren’t slated to be at the studio until 11:00, so there is no real reason for my early rise aside from the fact that when I am home, my dog, without fail, pokes his head in the door every morning at precisely 7:30. So now, a thousand miles away from him, I am still waking up at the same time. After the washroom visit, I make my way outside... read more

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Baroness Studio Diary - 5/21/09

By Summer Welch on 2:54 PM on May 22, 2009

Texas is big Texas is big. Everything in it is bigger. They say it. You’ve heard it a thousand times. Its one of those cliché sayings that makes you cringe every time you hear it. But, dag nabbit, its true. About three months ago, when we decided that we would be recording our new album with John Congleton, we were under the impression that we would be tracking at a studio deep in the Minnesota woods. The view from the control room looked out over a beautiful spring-fed trout stream and a landscape of mature trees. The forest floor was... read more

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Scion Rock Fest - Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade - 2/28/09

By Austin L. Ray on 12:00 PM on March 3, 2009

Photos taken by Jason Reed at The Masquerade... read more

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Nine Reasons Why the Scion Rock Fest Will Melt Faces

By Austin L. Ray on 7:00 AM on January 24, 2009

If you're a fan of heavy rock music, there's a good chance you've heard rumblings here, there and pretty much everywhere about the Scion Rock Fest. Organized by those metal-loving so-and-so's at Vice and Scion, the one-day, absolutely-free festival promises to take Atlanta's Masquerade by its shirt collar on Feb. 28 and shake the rock venue and every one of its denizens to their knees...for 12 hours straight! But don't take my word for it: peep the line-up, which is still growing, and enjoy the top nine reasons why I won't be standing at the end of that sure-to-be-unforgettable Saturday... read more

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Atlanta's Scion Rock Fest to feature Mastodon, Neurosis, Harvey Milk, Torche, High on Fire, Boris, many more

By David Marek on 9:56 AM on January 12, 2009

We've been trying to come up with a descriptor that adequately describes Atlanta's upcoming Scion Rock Fest. Rockmageddon? Destructioniptica? Metalgeddonocoplyse?... read more

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