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Album name: Endgame Artist name: Megadeth Genre: Heavy/Thrash Metal Released: September 15, 2009 Label: Roadrunner Records ZME Rating: 10/10 Website: Megadeth.com It’s a well known fact that instead of blood, a fine mixture of metal, vodka and pure awesomeness runs through Dave Mustaine’s veins. It’s what led him to deliver some of what many fans consider to be Metallica (and metal’s) finest songs, create blazing solos and make millions of fans headbang, but it’s also wh

As if we needed any MORE reasons to buy this game immediately. ”This soundtrack took years to put together as we wanted to represent every genre of Metal, and also have the perfect music for every epic moment in the game,” said Tim Schafer, President of Double Fine Productions in the press release. “It’s designed to be loved by Metal fans, and for those who are not, it will either convert them or make their heads explode… or both.” “It would be a grave disservice to merely use the term ‘Ulti

(Photo - Chris McKibbin ) Live Review – Soilwork, Darkane, Swallow the Sun Sunday, March 01, 2009 Richards on Richards – Vancouver, BC. In a recent couple of months Vancouver has been steadily receiving a healthy dose of Scandinavian brain-smashing death metal delivered by no less than icons of the genre like In Flames and, now, Soilwork. One of the openers – Warbringer, didn’t make it into the country and it was all up to Europeans to tear Richards on Richards apart on Sunday night an

Jennifer Lena and Richard Peterson have an interesting article in the latest issue of the American Sociological Review (2008, 73, October: 697-718). One could consider their work a contribution to the great art of generating sociocultural classifications of a variety of practices. Here, Lena and Peterson build a typology of musical genres and their attributes. The authors use genre as a conceptual tool most often used to classify varieties of cultural products, particularly in the fields of

Norwegian black metal legends honour old school speed metal and punk with another collection of raw tunes. The Darkthrone of today are a completely different band than when they started out and redefined the genre of black metal in the early '90s. The strict doctrines of old have long since been left behind, but only out of a natural progression. Darkthrone sound like they do today very simply ...