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The Bay Area may be known for Silicon Valley’s innovations, but it was another breakthrough altogether that gave it a permanent spot on the international heavy-metal map: thrash. The early years of such seminal local bands as Metallica, Exodus, Testament, Death Angel and Vio-lence — plus their Los Angeles brethren Megadeth and Slayer — are captured in the new photo book “Murder in the Front Row ...

On paper, Dethklok should be unbearably lame. Fake bands from cartoons bring to mind tripe like Jem or Josie The Pussycats . But somehow, Metalocalypse creator Brendon Small got it right. Dethklok is more than just a “brutal” caricature. Judging by how Small crams in references to obscure bands and invites big names from the metal underground such as George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher and the members of Exodus to provide guest voices on most episodes, Small clearly gives a

As my list of new music to listen to/decide if I wanna review or not grows, I figured it might be in the best interest of me to get some of this stuff off my plate and into your skulls. I hope some of you dudes and dudettes are into teh rawk, because today’s FMETYE isall about throwin up the horns and rockin’ the eff out. Wretched - ‘The Exodus Of Autonomy’ Victory Records Released March 3, 2009 I’ll start things off with the new disc by North Carolina’s Wretched, mainly because it’s my