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March 25, 2013
The Best Concerts to See In L.A. This Week
Monday, March 25 Corima, Upsalon Acrux PEHRSPACE There are, in fact, thriving musical styles that have blessedly little to do with the latest pop trends. Roughly intersecting prog-rock and art-jazz is a thing called Zeuhl Music, a very heavy, propulsive sonic form whose roaring rhythm sections and ... More >>
Blogs
March 1, 2013
The Best L.A. Metal Concerts to See In March
Saturday, Mar 2 Meshuggah The Wiltern "I Am Colossus" is both the title track of Meshuggah's 2012 album Koloss, and the mission statement of the Swedish metal group -- after all, their off-kilter polyrhythmic riffs and drums have influenced dozens of bands. Their sound is anchored by the fantastical ... More >>
Blogs
February 19, 2013
Metallica: A Tale of Squandered Potential
No band has ever failed to live up to its own potential quite like Metallica. While the other three quarters of thrash metal's "big four" (Testament, Megadeth and Slayer) still cut records and tour for receptive audiences, Metallica moved on to Kid Rock and Nickelback territory. We're used to it now ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2013
The Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend
Friday, February 1 Vieux Farka Touré, Fool's Gold ROYCE HALL Music critics often describe Vieux Farka Touré as "the Hendrix of the Sahara," but the Malian guitarist doesn't really sound much like Jimi Hendrix. Instead, Touré has a distinctively exotic style that's more similar to the music of hi ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2013
The Best L.A. Metal Concerts To See In February
Sat, Feb 2 Testament House of Blues Hollywood Many metal fans think that the Bay Area's Testament belong next to metal's "Big Four" (Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax). Indeed, classic albums like The Legacy and newer output like 2012's Dark Roots of Earth provide strong evidence for this arg ... More >>
Blogs
January 29, 2013
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 >>
Blogs
December 28, 2012
Random Notebook Dump: The Year In Metal 2012
A lot of monumental things in metal this year. Some of them involved actual music. Many did not. In honor of the year's end, we gave our notebook a good shaking to help us remember the most important stuff. Top 20 L.A. Metal Albums of All Time -Lamb of God vocalist Randy Blythe was jailed for a mo ... More >>
Blogs
October 18, 2012
Top 20 L.A. Metal Albums: The Complete List
When it comes to discussion of the top metal scenes, Los Angeles never gets its due. Maybe it's because we're not known for being pioneers of a single subgenre (Bay Area thrash and Florida death metal for example), but there's still no doubt that the city has been vital in the evolution of metal. ... More >>
Blogs
October 17, 2012
Top 20 L.A. Metal Albums: 10 - 1
See also: Top 20 L.A. Metal Albums: 20 - 11 Top 20 Greatest L.A. Punk Albums The Ten Most Unreadable Metal Band Logos 10. Slayer Seasons in the Abyss (1990) Seasons in the Abyss is nothing fancy, just pure, sore-neck, eardrum-stripping metal. Full of brutal drum barrages, massive caliber guitar as ... More >>
Blogs
October 16, 2012
Top 20 L.A. Metal Albums: 20 - 11
When it comes to discussion of the top metal scenes, Los Angeles never gets its due. Maybe it's because we're not known for being pioneers of a single subgenre (Bay Area thrash and Florida death metal for example), but there's still no doubt that the city has been vital in the evolution of metal. ... More >>
Blogs
October 1, 2012
The Best Metal Concerts to See in L.A. This Month
Fri, Oct 5 Gypsyhawk The Viper Room Pasadena's Gypsyhawk deftly blend metallic guitars and fantasy/science-obsessed lyrics with a rock and roll boogie swagger. On the group's new album Revelry & Resilience, the raspy shouts of bassist/vocalist Eric Harris and the blistering yet warm solos of guitar ... More >>
Blogs
July 19, 2012
The 20 Best Albums Not in the Canon: The Complete List
*Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time A few months back Rolling Stone put out their updated 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. (Here's a quickly-scannable version; Sgt. P ... More >>
Blogs
July 17, 2012
Top 20 Albums Not In The Canon: 20-11
*Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time A few months back Rolling Stone put out their updated 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. (Here's a quickly-scannable version; Sgt. P ... More >>
Music
July 5, 2012
Everything You Wanted to Know About Metal but Were Afraid to Ask
Subgenres explained, from thrash to pornogrind
Calendar
April 26, 2012
Overkill
Subgenres explained, from thrash to pornogrind
Blogs
April 25, 2012
Behemoth Frontman: Metal and Christianity Are Incompatible
In the time that has passed since the release of Behemoth's 2009 album Evangelion, band leader Nergal overcame a life-threatening leukemia scare, avoided prison time after blasphemy charges in his home country of Poland were dropped, and got let go from a gig as a judge on the Polish version of The ... More >>
Blogs
February 25, 2012
Megadeth - Gibson Amphitheatre - 2-24-11
Timothy NorrisSee also: Dave Mustaine's Advice for Starving Women in Africa: "Put a Plug in It" Megadeth Gibson Amphitheatre 2-24-12 Better than...putting a plug in it. Megadeth leader Dave Mustaine has gone on a tear making controversial statements in interviews recently. At least he has ... More >>
Music
February 23, 2012
Music Picks: Lila Downs, Merle Haggard, I See Hawks in L.A., Die Antwoord
Also, Das Racist, Gonjasufi, Roky Erickson and others
Blogs
February 23, 2012
Dave Mustaine's Advice for Starving Women in Africa: "Put a Plug in It"
Dave Mustaine is intense. His band Megadeth pairs oppositional forces -- aggressive, machine-gun rhythms with near-pop melodies -- and similarly Mustaine's personality seems a yin-yang contradiction of simmering rage and family values. On the road with the fourth Gigantour, which hits Gibson Amphit ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2011
Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: The Complete List
See also: *Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums One day I was sitting around thinking I want to write a song about ménage a trois...and the line 'love in stereo' came into my head. Inspiration can happen anywhere at any time. -Jani Lane, Hit Parader magazine History has not been ... More >>
Blogs
December 5, 2011
The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #20-16
See also: *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #15-11 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #10-6 *The Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: #5-1 *Chuck Klosterman's Favorite Hair Metal Albums One day I was sitting around thinking I want to write a song about ménage a trois...and the l ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2011
EXCLUSIVE: Metallica's Lars Ulrich On Surviving the Big 4 and the Roots of Thrash
Warner Bros.Metallica's Lars UlrichMonths of anticipation came to an explosive finish in the California desert on Saturday night, as Metallica closed their "Big 4" thrash-fest with a thundering "Seek & Destroy" for 50,000 weary headbangers spread across Empire Polo Field in Indio. By acknowle ... More >>
Blogs
April 25, 2011
Big 4 Recap: Backstage, Onstage and Caught in a Mosh at Metal's Biggest Event
Paul HebertDesert Thrashers: Metallica's Kirk Hammett and James HetfieldThrash has become the music of brotherly love. Backstage at the Big 4 fest on Saturday, all four of the day's speedy metal acts gathered for a quick group portrait with photographer Ross Halfin. And standing tall at the c ... More >>
Blogs
April 22, 2011
EXCLUSIVE: Slayer's Kerry King Reveals How Thrash Survives
Photograph by Steve ApplefordSlayer guitarist Kerry King Thrash metal musicians are not always the most social of animals. The guys in Anthrax do tend to get along with other bands, but Slayer, Megadeth and Metallica have famously traded insults across the decades over slights big and small. ... More >>
Blogs
April 22, 2011
EXCLUSIVE: Megadeth's Dave Mustaine On Embracing the Big 4 and Finally Getting Over Metallica
Stephanie CabralFlame-haired shredder Dave Mustaine and Megadeth Of all the musicians onstage at Saturday's epic Big 4 Festival of thrash, Dave Mustaine arrives with the most complicated history. He is an essential figure within this loud-fast genre of metal, and the originator of a certain ... More >>
Music
April 21, 2011
Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax Play Coachella April 23
Stephanie CabralFlame-haired shredder Dave Mustaine and Megadeth Of all the musicians onstage at Saturday's epic Big 4 Festival of thrash, Dave Mustaine arrives with the most complicated history. He is an essential figure within this loud-fast genre of metal, and the originator of a certain ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2011
Who Is the Biggest of the Big Four?: Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax in Size Standoff at Post-Coachella Thrash Metal Fest
zme musicSo the Coachella organizers had an empty slot between the Coachella festival itself and the much more chill Stagecoach "Americana" festival and, as everyone knows by now, they offered it to Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer for the first American version of the Big Four festiva ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2010
Top 10 Metal Shows in LA in 2010 (with Bonus Video Evidence!)
Timothy NorrisThe 2010 LA Weekly poster children for LA Metal posing at Sunset Strip Music Festival "THE" 10 best LA Metal shows of the year? How dare we? Alright--we're gonna go there. It wasn't easy but after a few hours rummaging through the desk drawer that finds my old drunkenly discard ... More >>
Blogs
October 21, 2010
Tonight: Slayer, Megadeth, Film School, Los Enanitos Verdes, Wiz Khalifa, Born Ruffians, Frank Fairfield
SlayerIf the current "Clash of Titans" tour featuring Slayer, Medageth and Anthrax has reinforced one notion, it's that anger never goes out of style. The tour, with Slayer and Megadeth co-headlining, has been raging, drawing metal fans young and old to the music of bands that, along with Me ... More >>
Music
October 14, 2010
Music Picks: Laurie Anderson, Onibaba, Superchunk
Also, Hoodoo Gurus, Die Antwoord, Jonsi and others
Blogs
August 31, 2010
Live Review: Slayer, Megadeth and Testament Hit Long Beach for American Carnage (and a Couple of Christians Are Not Amused)
Evil AlexWarning thrash metal fans about Hell A tall skinny man in all black shouted, "FUCK YOU JESUS FREAK! SATAN SATAN!" as he stood in line to be frisked at the Long Beach Arena Monday evening, for the American Carnage Tour, a thrash metal epiphany type event, featuring Testament, Megade ... More >>
Blogs
August 31, 2010
Exclusive Interview: Megadeth's David Ellefson on Thrash Metal, his Favorite Bible Story and the Status of That Elusive American "Big Four" Tour (Yes You, Metallica. We're Waiting.)
Valerie McRobertsDavid Ellefson enjoying a stiff Starbucks before Megadeth's setMegadeth are undoubtedly one of the biggest thrash metal bands of all time. Fronted by Dave Mustaine, founder, guitarist and vocalist, the band was formed in the early '80s after Mustaine was kicked out of Metalli ... More >>
Music
August 26, 2010
Music Picks: Dr. John, Herbie Hancock, Sunset Strip Music Festival
Also, Funkfest, Chromeo, Slayer and others
Blogs
June 8, 2010
Iraqi Metal Band Acrassicauda to Play First L.A. Show Ever
Iraqi Metal Band Acrassicauda to Play First L.A. Show Ever
Blogs
December 22, 2009
10 Great Heavy Metal Albums of 2009 (Or, Well, Make That 14)
Over the Top Eyes open and ears bleeding, Phil Freeman loads up on the year's best metal. This year was such a good one for heavy music, we wound up having to cheat when putting this list together. We just couldn't settle on ten albums that kicked my ass the hardest in 2009; there were dozens of ca ... More >>
Blogs
December 3, 2009
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 >>
Blogs
October 5, 2009
Megadeth vs. Metallica: Both Have "Gone Down the Shitter"
Gotta love the Internets. "Rust in Peace was one of the hardest-ass fucking metal albums I've ever heard in my life. I even like the bass solo on 'Dawn Patrol.' That's a great fucking bass solo. I don't give a shit what anybody says." "I noticed that about the same time that Metallica started su ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2009
Capitol to Reissue Key Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beach Boys, Ben Harper Releases on Heavy Vinyl
Capitol Records has just announced its next round of 180 gram vinyl reissues, and it's a fantastic list. This next batch will arrive June 16. The Beach Boys / Sunflower (1 LP, single jacket) The Beach Boys / Surf's Up (1 LP, single jacket, lyrics sheet insert) Plastic Ono Band / Live Peace In To ... More >>
Music
April 17, 2008
Rock Picks: Lucinda Williams, Fuck Buttons, The Sword
Also, Kanye West, The Black Heart Procession and more
Music
April 10, 2008
Rock Picks: Meat Beat Manifesto, Jay-Z, Eels
Plus other music shows for April 10-17
Music
November 15, 2007
Rock Picks: Puffy AmiYumi, the Dickies, the B-52's, Fear, Van Halen
For the week of November 16 - 22
LA Life
May 10, 2007
Keith Clark
Wild in the spreadsheets
Music
April 5, 2007
The Last of the Tr�e Rock Believers
RTX at Relax Bar, March 30
Music
September 7, 2006
Lamb of God to Bless Hyundai Pavilion
RTX at Relax Bar, March 30
News
May 11, 2006
Satan Loves You
Cuddly moments in new-millennium metal
News
March 11, 2004
Too Old To Rock, Too Young To Die
The shady life and uncertain future of a legendary roadie
Music
May 8, 2003
Metal, Have Mercy on Us
The shady life and uncertain future of a legendary roadie
Music
January 30, 2003
Love or Fusion
The shady life and uncertain future of a legendary roadie
Music
May 24, 2001
Crush �Em
Demons, dragons and Megadeth
Music
May 25, 2000
Be Hair Now
Demons, dragons and Megadeth
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