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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

Found in: Blogs, List of the Day

Mastodon to Tour with Metalocalypse's Dethklok

By Michael Saba on 8:30 AM on August 5, 2009

A Mastodon tour is cool enough on its own. The thunderous riffs and progged-out guitars of the Atlanta-based quartet should satisfy the appetite of the most insatiable long-tressed, spike-belt-wearing, potentially-wizard-beard-possessing metalhead. But the key with metal is that old saw "too much is never enough." Good thing the architects of Mastodon's upcoming tour understand that wisdom, because they've gilded the proverbial lily, painted it black, and set it on fire with pentatonic chords screaming in the background. Yes, that's right: Brendon Small and company will don the mantles of Metalocalypse's semi-fictional Dethklok to co-headline Mastodon's tour....  read more

Found in: Music, News

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

Found in: Blogs, 1000 Words

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

Found in: Blogs, List of the Day

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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