A grizzly murder, my friends & fiends & warranted drugged out heretics of all sorts, was not my absolute birthright as though it would seem Tom Araya’s closing scream ending Beauty Through Disorder and his final embrace of the sane. Murder would however, become my right as an innocent victim...

It seemed as though Jonas Renske and Fredrik Norrman had abided by the old show business adage “always leave them wanting more” when they originally disbanded October Tide in 1999 after releasing two of the most underrated death/doom albums in the sub-genre’s history. Not too shabby considering...

Back in 1991, A Tribe Called Quest claimed that the 4,080th rule of the music industry was that “record company people are shady.” That rhyme proved to be both timely and prophetic, as major labels lured in smaller acts from all genres with promises of glorious fame, only to stifle their ideas and...

Iron Maiden’s fifteenth studio album, The Final Frontier, is a high watermark in the bands career for production value and coordination; yet the album itself is a low-roller in terms of their usual flamboyant and bombastic creativity and flair. Their fourth album produced with Kevin Shirley, The Final...

We were somewhere in the thick of battle when the wine & LSD racked right into the mix. Wretched’s Beyond The Gate was a blistering reminder of what we had come to do…KILL! The bastards were there to grease the cogs of transgression with their weak souls & shallow blood. Their belief system...

With King Giant’s Southern Darkness comes harshly the great Rock marvel…the falling of the glorious Hammer Of Domination all lubed up with the muddy waters of the Mississippi River & cheap whiskey. So heavy and so groovy in a fresh manner that I’ve taken charge with the intent of becoming...

It would be a riot to walk into Sunlight Studios during the Left Hand Path sessions and see the look on Tomas Skogsberg’s face after telling him that death metallers two decades in the future would still be chasing his trademark buzzsaw guitar tone. Aside from the obvious, “You have a time machine?”...

Photos By: Phil Reed and Ed Hannigan A Baneful Appetite For Destruction & Mayhem - The story and gravity of my experience at the 2010 Mayhem Fest can’t possibly begin at my entrance to the Jiffy Lube Live Pavilion in Bristow, Virginia on that beautiful sunny Sunday morning. The entire thing, in...

The clichéd pussy and bravado lore would be all too much to veer away from so we’ll just fuckin’ go with it…the rat infested thrash gruel of that sick little town at the heart of our West Coast lost infestation of angels is the essence of Rattlehead’s Tales From The Gutter…but that would be...

Sobriety is a dimming bastard, and so it was that in the grip of an awfully long heart-stopping booze & dope binge that Star Crossed Wasteland finally fell upon me after nearly a hundred incredible sustained plays.  It was also on the tail end of my relationship with the beautiful Athena, and so...