This guest post comes from Genji from Los Angeles. Look for more metal/punk posts from our California correspondent… For the past few years Scion has done a wonderful job pandering to the young metal community with their free show series. Have they actually sold more cars because of it? Who knows, but certainly no metalheads...
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Slightly below the real world, in my real life, I work as a Sales Engineer for a software company. My days are spent in a home office in my basement in Colorado. This isn’t a windowless, dungeon type of basement as you can see by the photo above, but sometimes the music that escapes...
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Don’t be alarmed, this is not becoming a metal blog, but over these winter months when indie rock and hip-hop hibernate, extreme music comes alive. Not only were some amazing metal albums released in the later part of 2010, but 15 days in, 2011 is shaping up to be a good year as well. ...
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Inquisition – Ominous Doctrines Of The Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm (Hell’s Headbangers, 2011) Sticking to my new rule of listening to an album at least 5 times through before recommending, you can imagine my surprise when the first album of 2011 (released late-2010 in Latin America and Europe) to meet my self-imposed requirement was the...
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Agalloch – Marrow of the Spirit This is going to be the soundtrack of my winter. Agalloch‘s new album of atmospheric black metal came at a perfect time in the year. The dark comes early, the frost covers everything in the morning and there is the constant threat of a huge storm coming over...
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The Darkness Reborn Tour brought two Norweigen black metal bands to town; two bands I have been listening to a lot recently. Enslaved’s excellent new album, Axioma Ethica Odini, has been on repeat since I downloaded it and Dimmu Borgir‘s Abrahadabra provided me with a gateway to their older material. Out of all the...
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So, what is there to do in Des Moines, Iowa on a Tuesday night? Well, you could sit in your hotel room at the Sheraton and reflect on your exciting day at the Iowa’s Bankers Conference. You could hit up the local Applebee’s or Chili’s. You could even get crazy and grab a burger...
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Dimmu Borgir – Abrahadabra Taking symphonic metal to a new level, this album features more than 100 musicians including the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and Schola Cantorum Choir. This might be my favorite extreme release of the year. Dimmu Borgir – Gateways Reviews: Absurd History 4.5/5 Metal Storm 8.0 Angry Metal Guy 3.5/5 Iron Maiden...
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It seems like just yesterday the initial line-up for the 2010 Red Rocks season started trickling out and now it’s already over. Alice in Chains, along with Deftones and Mastodon closed out the season with the Blackdiamondskye Tour on Monday night. When we bought the tickets to this show I was already mentally preparing...
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Every month I will recap the albums and songs I can recommend under the Re-Up heading. Click on each album cover for more information and song link to play the song. Right-click and ‘Save Link As’ to download song. Albums: Metal: R&B/Rap: Songs: Alejandro Escovedo – Anchor (from Streets Songs of Love out now)...
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Mile High Metal Marathon
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