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Mastodon: A More Democratic Metal
It’s a testament to Mastodon’s general bad-assery that guitarist Bill Kelliher is able to sound like a metal titan even while picking up his young son from elementary school. read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesBest of What's Next: Royal Thunder
If you've had the chance to hear Royal Thunder's open-heart brand of blues-infused rock 'n' roll, wrapped in protective barbed-metal packaging, this news might come as a surprise: The lead singer, bassist, and lyricist, Mlny Parsonz spent most of her life "terrified" to sing in front of people. read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesDeath Metal LEGOs
Everyone knows LEGOs are awesome, but this video shows just how hardcore LEGOs can be. Fueled by heavy metal, these little badass blocks of plastic are spreading anger, destruction and basically just raising hell in their own little LEGO world.... read more
Found in: Blogs, Awesome of the DayTease the Devil: The 10 Most Metal Band Names For Non-Metal Bands
Scavenging our cultural tundra for ripping new metal bands to sink your fangs into, sometimes you bite into an overly tuneful, utterly unmoshable red herring. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayBest of What's Next: Baroness
The Savannah-based group rivals fellow Georgia metalmen Mastodon in terms of rhapsodic, speaker-crushing prog-metal... read more
Found in: Music, FeaturesIron Maiden Singer Nails Job at British Airline
Bruce Dickinson, beastly metalhead, former frontman of Iron Maiden and … long-time pilot gets a promotion.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsUntil the Light Takes Us to Explore Norway's Black-Metal Scene
Even with big marquee names like Kjetil Haraldstad, Kristoffer Rygg and Varg Vikernes on board, it’s unlikely Until the Light Takes Us will overshadow too many of this winter’s blockbuster movies. And in terms of cultural relevance, that’s a damn shame. The documentary, which will see the very limited light of day this winter, tells the story of how Norway’s burgeoning black-metal scene exploded into European consciousness with misunderstood violence, Satanism, arson and, yes, corpsepaint.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsSeven Brilliant, Terrible and Brilliantly Terrible Metal Covers of Pop Songs
Your average metal band usually has wildly different musical sensibilities from top 40 radio pop (and that goes double for said average metal band's fans). But is there really any good reason for that other than genre segregation that forbids metal fans from rubbing their leather-clad elbows with bubblegum popsters? That question may remain unanswered for now, but some metal acts are bridging the divide with covers of pop tracks that range from excellent to execrable. Let's take a look, and see how they stack up against the originals.... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayNine Reasons Why the Scion Rock Fest Will Melt Faces
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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