The long, intertwined roots of one of the world’s most successful independent metal labels can be traced to back to a dorm room in a military boarding school two decades ago. Ash Avildsen, the future head of the Los Angeles-based Sumerian Records, was 11 years old and entering the seventh......
Sounding as sunny and pleasant as the warm spring day outside his doors, Dave Lombardo is talking about taking a jackhammer to the head. “I wanted to be a part of something something that was just relentless,” explains one of metal’s signature drummers, talking up his latest project, metallic punk......