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2011 Fun Fun Fun Fest Day Three Photos

Check out Mike White's photos from day two of Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas. The festival, now in its sixth year, boasts an impressive four stages and a formidable lineup that includes Spoon, Public Enemy, Passion Pit and many more.  read more

Beatles' Tennis Shoes Hit The Streets

Recently, The Beatles and Apple Corporation gave French Commes des Garcons and Spring Court permission to create shoes branded with their logos....  read more

Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax to Play ‘Big 4’ Show In April

A week after this year’s Coachella concludes, the Empire Polo Club will play host to The Big 4 festival, featuring Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax. On April 23, the four metal heavyweights will descend upon the fields of Indio, Calif. to play together for the first time ever in the U.S....  read more

Slayer's iPhone App: Heavy Metal Fun-der

There’s no way a game that begins with a menacing voice promising “Balls of steeeeeeel!” could possibly be disappointing....  read more

Muse's UFO Stymies Slayer's Reign (In Blood)

Slayer fans who tuned into MTV Europe to watch the band’s performance at Germany’s Rock AM Ring festival this past Saturday night were disappointed to find the station’s signal mysteriously scrambled. The cause? Why, a UFO of course!...  read more

Jams? Def: A Birthday Playlist for Rick Rubin

Today, March 10, is legendary producer Rick Rubin’s 47th birthday, he of epic beard fame. In the nearly three decades since he co-founded Def Jam records, Rubin’s signature stripped-down and minimalistic production style helped usher metal and hip-hop into the mainstream, and has become the dominant pop aesthetic of our time. So, in honor of Rubin’s birthday: a playlist featuring some of his best production work....  read more

Twenty Ridiculously Literal Album Covers

Dear Slayer...  read more

Jordan McConnell of The Duhks' 10 favorite punk/metal bands

I grew up in Winnipeg. It's a dirty, struggling town on the eastern edge of the Canadian prairies and we have a winter that often spans eight months of the year. Four hours north of Fargo and effectively in the middle of nowhere...  read more

EMI India Pulls New Slayer LP From Shelves

Citing complaints lodged by a Mumbai, India-based Christian organization, EMI India has announced that it will remove all copies of Christ Illusion, the latest LP from US-based heavy metal band Slayer, from shelves across the subcontinent. The Catholic Secular Forum (CSF) released a statement early in October 2006 detailing their condemnation of the album's lyrical content and cover art, citing that it not only insults the Christian relegion, but could also offend Muslims and "secular Indians who have respect for all faiths." The album's cover image features an artistic rendering of Jesus Christ "with a missing eye and amputated arms,"...  read more