Lakeshore Entertainment Looking to Adapt Comic Book Series The Sword

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lakeshore Entertainment has officially acquired the rights to the graphic novel series The Sword....  read more

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

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

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