Death Metal MusicMusic and Culture on the Edge

I haven’t done a blog in a while because the last blog I did really got me thinking about the mentality of people in the metal scene. Most particularly, the mentality of shit talking. We’re all guilty of it. I admitted to shit talking Bring Me The Horizon in magazines over in Europe when I was in God Forbid. I never heard them at that point. But now, I dig them and I feel pretty stupid for slagging them.In my last blog I mentioned my excitement for the band Eryn Non Dae and how I was going to “b

Anton CorbijnUpon learning that they had won The Plain Dealer's Rock Hall readers' poll, the veteran headbangers of Metallica -- from left, James Hetfield, Robert Trujillo, Kirk Hammett and Lars Ulrich -- could barely contain their excitement. ONLINE AUDIO: A...

In the 1970's the UK pop charts were topped by competing glam rock acts like T.Rex, Gary Glitter, Slade, The Sweet, Mud and Alvin Stardust, which provided the greatest excitement in the UK music scene since the rise of The Beatles and Rolling Stones ten years earlier. Of these six main glam rock acts, Marc Bolan's T.Rex which grew from a two man acoustic hippie act of the late 60's into a full blown electric band with onstage pyrotechnic explosions and guitar floggings with a long whip and Gary