Judas Priest

The Best Los Angeles Metal Shows to See in May

Tuesday, May 7 Cauldron Five Stars Bar Toronto bassist/vocalist Jason Decay was near the forefront of last decade's revival of classic metal sounds, with his previous band Goat Horn. With his current outfit Cauldron, the brand of thrash falls more on the melodic side, taking strong influence from t ... More >>

Five '70s Metal Bands Who Are Better Than Black Sabbath

Ok, we get it. You like Sabbath. Everyone does. But there's a whole big world out there of '70s metal bands that goes beyond Sabbath -- even beyond Sir Lord Baltimore, if you can believe that. The '70s offered so much in the way of doom-and-gloom heaviness that it's criminal so many stop with Ozzy, ... More >>

The 20 Greatest Metal Albums in History: 20-11

If you count Black Sabbath's 1970 self-titled debut as heavy metal's birth, the genre is now over 40. It can no longer be called a fad. It can have adult children, and it can run for president. (Insert "presidental metal of freedom" joke here). See also: Top 20 L.A. Metal Albums: The Complete List ... More >>

Top Ten Los Angeles Metal Albums of 2012

Twenty twelve was another strong year for Los Angeles metal bands. What's especially cool is that we're not just kicking ass in one kind of metal -- L.A.'s got it going on in just about every metal sub-genre. Without further ado, then, here are our top ten Los Angeles metal albums of 2012. See also ... More >>

A Brief History of the Blowjob in Pop Music

Currently dominating charts, Flo Rida's "Whistle" recycles the wholesome Disney chorus "whistle while you work" as a blowjob instructional. Like many before him, Flo Rida enjoys receiving oral sex, and like almost as many, he has turned the practice into a popular song. Over the years, tracks discu ... More >>

Everything You Wanted to Know About Metal but Were Afraid to Ask

Subgenres explained, from thrash to pornogrind

The Museum That Roared

Top Ten Worst Replacement Singers in Rock and Metal

​At the beginning of the year, Boston metalcore giants Killswitch Engage announced that they had parted ways with vocalist Howard Jones, and two weeks ago they announced they were bringing their first vocalist, Jesse Leach, back into the fold. At the very least, it seems a way to ensure they w ... More >>

Hellbent For Cooking: The Very Metal Companion to All Those Damn Metal Cooking Shows

Bazillion PointsEYEHATEGOD's "bloody" beans and rice.​In May, we wrote about metal cooking shows, noting that playing metal required precision and well-seasoned chops, much like cooking. Today, we're examining the metal-kitchen pipeline further, sorting through a 2009 cookbook we just receive ... More >>

Rob Halford Interview: "I'm doing more costume changes than Cher on this tour"

Beto Landoni​By Linda Leseman On Saturday, Judas Priest's farewell Epitaph World Tour comes to the San Manuel Amphitheater, but frontman Rob Halford maintains that the band's reign as Metal Gods is far from over. "They say age is just a number, isn't it?" asks Halford, at home in the Midlan ... More >>

Top Ten Metal Bands With Strange Gimmicks

Oderous Urungus of GWAR​See also: Top Five Metal Guest Vocalists That Make You Say "WTF" When it comes to our musical preferences, we pretend that we value artistic integrity, strong musicianship, and meaningful lyrics above all else. But in truth we often fall for a good gimmick. Whether it' ... More >>

Found Footage Festival: Back to the Future

One man's trash is another's beloved time capsule

Godzilla No Like When Honda Use Godzilla to Sell Minivan; Godzilla Sue Honda (VIDEO)

Toho Co. Ltd. (please don't sue us)A Japanese chick from 1954 gets her first glimpse of the Honda Odyssey​We're not sure why we're talking like Elmo, and we'd like to amend that Godzilla himself has not filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against American Honda Motor Company in Los Angeles ... More >>

'RACH & ROLL

Six Most Idiotic Attempts to Blame Musicians for Violent Events (or, the Tucson Tragedy Was Caused by a Crazy Person, Not by Drowning Pool's "Bodies Hit the Floor")

6 Horrible Acts of Violence Blamed on Music

Music Picks: Dum Dum Girls, Tricky, Leon Russell, OFF!

Also, Peaches, Killing Joke, Albert Lee and others

Grammy Winners Meet Jersey Shore

Grammy Winners Meet Jersey Shore: Hypothetical Jerzification

Heavy Metal Internship Studies Sabbath, Priest, and Napalm Death

Heavy Metal Internship Studies Sabbath, Priest, and Napalm Death

Phish Parking Lot: Apparently There Were Drugs and Hippies at Coachella

You may recall that Phish performed a three-day freakout extravaganza at Coachella over Halloween. You may have even road-tripped. In fact, you maybe were there and can't remember anything at all about it, at least based on the mind-fuck that is the video team Brilliant Comrades' new Phish Parking L ... More >>

Notes on the Grammy Nominations: Excuse Us While We Puke

​What follows are a few random notes on LA-based nominees for the 2009 Grammys, which were announced yesterday in downtown LA. If you're looking for thoughts on the big-ass pop categories, go elsewhere; we're going to try and wade through the rock and lesser known categories without throwing u ... More >>

Slayer’s Bloody Template

More tales of serial murder and psychosis, state oppression, snuff films and endless war over oil

A Pantheon of Satan's Greatest Hits for 9/9/09

Nine of Satan's Greatest Hits for 9/9/09

West Coast Sound's Week That Was: Underworld, FYF Fest, New Vinyl Column, Deadfly Ensemble, MP3s

The festival formerly known as the F Yeah Fest is now called the FYF Fest, and announced its line up this week. Read about it here. Chris Martins debuted a new vinyl column, called 'Inches', and offered a boatload of MP3s. ​ The Deadfly Ensemble gigs in Chinatown, does theater and music s ... More >>

Judas Priest's Performance of British Steel at Gibson Amphitheatre: Sonically Beefier, Possibly Record-Breaking

By Skylaire Alfvegren Judas Priest at Gibson Amphitheatre, August 2 Last year, Birmingham, UK stalwarts Judas Priest released an ambitious double album conceptualizing the life of French seer, Nostradamus, and mounted an epic summer escapade with Motorhead and Heaven & Hell. Under the stars abo ... More >>

Rock Picks: Future of the Left, Deerhoof, Ronnie Mack's Barndance, The Urinals

Also, Torche, Alejandro Escovedo, Quintron & Miss Pussycat, and others

Who the Hell Is Holy Grail?

An L.A. metal band with songs about “chicks, Vikings, ex-chicks, being tough, macho/machismo, FEMA, Fabio, Conan, rad dinosaurs, UFOs and Bilderberg Group,” that’s who

Monster Truck Parking Lot: Reflections on Big Wheels, Little Dudes and Truck Balls

Drew Tewksbury Twenty-three years ago, a cinematic meteorite slammed into the American landscape. The 1986 DIY film was Heavy Metal Parking Lot and it portrayed nothing more than its namesake; the unruly Schlitz-drinking, ape-drape-adorned metal heads meandering in a Landover, Maryland parking lot b ... More >>

Top 10 Metal Albums of 2008

By Phil Freeman In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008's been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random stran ... More >>

Exhuming Nostradamus: Judas Priest's Lead Singer on UFOs, Concept Albums, Motörhead and Dio

There is only one Metal God, and his name is Rob Halford

Björk: Intruder Alert

Björk at Nokia Theatre, December 12

Bjork at the Nokia Theatre, 12/12

Bjork at the Nokia Theater, December 12 By Randall Roberts Last night’s Bjork show at the Dystopia – er, I mean Nokia -- Theatre downtown didn’t really start to make sense to me until afterward, when some friends and I ended up at the Pacific Dining Car – “an elegant place to hide” -- o ... More >>

Masqued

Hard and Harder, Abstract and Abstracter

2005 in metal and jazz

Fireball Ministry

Local bands, man

The Sign of Z

Roy Z, metal studio wizard

Heavy Metal Rec Room

Get yer ass over here and check out the new Priest

�Heart of a Lion� and Scott Travis:
A Judas Priest Reunion Time Circle

Diamonds and Dust

Penetration

Today’s Iron Maiden sticks it to ya

Revenge against the �70s (and other hostile decades)

Blues From Mars

The Erotic Arts

Whole Lotta Love

Mark Wahlberg, movie star

Hot! Pink! Plywood!

Edited by Kateri Butler

Capsule Band Profiles

What the Hell?

An interview with Rob Halford

Mastodons of the Universe

Crushing rock with queens of the stone age

Nudist Fuckin' Priest, Dude

Breaking the Law

Rob Halford outside the metal machine

Music Reviews

Victor Lewis Trios, Pell Mell, C4AM95