Death Metal MusicMusic and Culture on the Edge

In Western Pennsylvania, we're fairly comfortable with metal in all its forms. But in general, the brutal power, aggression and attitude of heavy metal and Jesus' message of faith and forgiveness doesn't, on the surface, seem like a match made in heaven.

Missoni's eye-popping palette, Dolce & Gabbana's casual washed silk trousers and a spotlight-heavy Alexander McQueen show inject a bit of merriment into men's fashion. If there was a common thread running through the Milan spring-summer 2011 menswear shows that ended last week it was the notion of light in every sense of the word. There was a lightness of attitude not the cautious, bet ...

The rise and rise of 5FDP continues at Download 2010. Whatever you think of their music, Five Finger Death Punchs attitude and delivery is the perfect Download fodder.

Talking to Skeletonwitch guitarist Scott “Scunty D.” Hedrick was like talking to a long-lost bro. The dude is just so incredibly down to earth, straight-forward and easygoing that I felt like I’d already known him for years despite the fact that we were speaking for the first time. Scott spoke a whole lot about Skeletonwitch’s roll in the metal community, about that community as a whole, and the general “we’re all in this together” attitude of pretty much everyone who’s involved in metal right n