We Will Rock You - Egypt Today
A mid red and blue swirling lights, fast riffs and pounding drums tear out of the speakers. Hit songs are delivered at an eardrum-tearing volume, but it is the crowd’s enthusiastic roars that seem to shake the place to its foundations. It’s a ...November 20, 2009
Hearts, Minds and Braaains: Metal-Electronica Maven Vverevvolf Grehv - Express Night Out
"A mind-numbing metalhead that's really mono and one-track-minded — that's really what I wanted to create with my music," Dapose says when explaining the name for his 2008 album, " Zombie Aesthetics ." And by mixing together metal, which Dapose ...November 18, 2009
The decade’s best metal - A.V. Club
BEFORE THE STORM. First of all, I’ll let you in on a little secret: In a little while, The A.V. Club is going to release its list of the best music of the decade. And most of it will be pretty damn good—even the bands named after helpless ...November 18, 2009
Rodrigo y Gabriela - JamBase
Rodrigo (Sanchez) and Gabriela (Quintero) are two fast-fingered, Dublin-based, Mexicans with a unique sound created on acoustic guitars. Their music is difficult to define, straddling both world and rock, and often imbued with timeless Hispano ...November 20, 2009
Metal Underground.com - Metal Underground
It is a tasteless, low-brow parody of Norwegian so-called Black Metal anno 1991-1992, and if it was up to me it would meet its dishonourable end as soon as possible. However, rather than abandon my own music, only because others have soiled its name ...November 18, 2009
Live review: High on Fire, Converge, Mastodon and Dethklok - Los Angeles Times Blogs
Booked at the distinctly un-metal hour of 6:30 p.m., High on Fire's druggy, swaggering and dread-laden metal had to compete with the brutal reality of playing a dinner-time set prefacing a very long night of difficult music. No matter the strength of ...November 20, 2009
System Divide Inks Record Deal With Metal Blade - Metal Underground
Ohio extreme metallers System Divide, which features members of Aborted, Malignancy, and Antenora, have inked a record deal with Metal Blade. System Divide has already completed a video for the song "The Apex Doctrine" off the bands current EP, which ...November 20, 2009
Concert preview: 'Just like herpes,' GWAR is back - Salt Lake Tribune
If you think seeing metal band GWAR in concert Nov. 21 is the apex of fun, you haven't had the pleasure of interviewing the band. The heavy-metal musicians conduct interviews with their dual personalities. Each answers questions as a normal human ...November 19, 2009
MU graduate student wins composition prize - Columbia Missourian
COLUMBIA — When Mike Strausbaugh gets in his car, he turns on Swedish death metal. Although the MU graduate student is studying classical guitar and music composition, he doesn’t always draw inspiration from classical music. He doesn’t go by ...November 20, 2009
Metal for the masses? - Augusta Chronicle
Music from the fringes rarely migrates to the mainstream. With few exceptions, the heaviest metal and the angriest punk, the most discordant or dour or most original will never see the success of populist acts. This is evident with big-business bands ...November 18, 2009
