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Album: Two (Poverty) Label: Metal Blade Released: October, 16th, 2007 If you’re wearing a trucker-hat and shootin’ at cats, you’ll love this...

Album: obZen Label: Nuclear Blast Release: March 11th, 2008 A big wet arterial spray by the name of obZen has saturated records stores world...

Album: Animal Label: Metal Blade Release: October, 2 2007 When metal sounds like it’s on the verge of losing control, it usually affects the...

Album: Hot Sumerian Nights Label: Underdogma Records Released: between 2 months and 2,000,000,000 years ago Crom is the sexy beast you’ve...

Album: Hot Sumerian Nights Label: Underdogma Records Released: between 2 months and 2,000,000,000 years ago Crom is the sexy beast you’ve...

Label: Relapse Release Date: February, 19th 2008 Genghis Tron has created a dreamy, trance-infused landscape that lulls the listener into a ...

Century Media Records Release: February 12th 2008 Few bands have the ability to change genre without sounding like a bad joke. Entering the...

Metal Blade Records Release: Nov. 27th, 2007 The Ocean is immense. It’s a story from Germany of striving for an ideal. In 1999, guitarist/...

Metal Blade February 5th 2008 When the whine of the drill commences, memories of scenes in the movie Hostel arise - a man strapped to a chai...

Century Media Records Feb.5th 2008 Heaven Shall Burn’s songwriting has created an album that pulls each note into the next. The domino effe...

13th Planet Records Feb. 19th 2008 Skillfully crafted by Burton C. Bell (Fear Factory, G//Z/R) and John Bechdel (Killing Joke, Ministry), Nu...

When I first heard I was interviewing Clutch’s Neil Fallon, my blood went cold. This is a man who draws on the suprasegmentals of ancient G...

Scarecrow is an integral part of the Bay Area’s metal, its members having made up such bands as Exhumed, Dekapitator, Repulsion, Old Grandad...

FUELED BY FIRE by Buttface Bamman Fueled By Fire isn’t what you might expect of a thrash-metal band. Don’t get me wrong: the riffs are t...

The Hemlock was packed in anticipation of the unique blend of folk and rock that can only be described as: The Dry Spells. Tahlia Harbour an...

Like Hopper and Fonda in Easy Rider, High On Fire’s riffs have picked up speed. When I heard “10,000” off their 1st album in 2000, I declar...

It’s been 25 years since Brian Slegal founded Metal Blade Records and there’s never been a better time to be a metalhead. For this most bru...

Chehalem Winery Willamette Valley 503-538-4700 Oregon is Pinot country, which means that it’s one of the most weather sensitive wine regions...

Bittersweet, The Chocolate Café Two Locations: San Francisco - 2123 Fillmore Street Oakland - 5427 College Avenue www.bittersweetcafe.com ...

With punk sarcasm, cheesy acting, and not-so-cheesy gore, Return of the Living Dead turns the Godfather of horror into a sleaze show. But t...

The purpose of this blog was to get myself to write. Secondly, it was to create an example of my writing for the editors of magazines, zine...

It always makes me feel good to see tattooing unfold its inky wings across new parts of the globe, or in this case, return to parts where it...

How often will San Francisco bear witness to a line up like this year’s Rock The Bells ? Think: EPMD, Public Enemy, all eight remaining m...

After sleeping all day we hit the six-hour-long happy-hour, then went to dinner. The dining complex is a huge, windowless, pink, disco-ball...