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Weekly Video RecapWeekly Video Recap: A week with a lot of videos!Posted on September 18th, 2009 We haven't done one of these in a while, but this week there were so many videos posted that we felt this would be a good time to bring this back. So, let's get started shall we…First, let's start with a video that is being reposted all over the internet, Super Mario Bros Theme Gone Metal. Seriously an awesome cover of the Mario theme with a lil splash of Zelda in the outro.We concluded posting all

It takes a lot of balls to put the music you play right in your name: sometimes it works (see: Death) and sometimes it doesn’t (see: the Rockstar Mayhem Festival, which confusingly decides not to include the black metal band with whom they share a name in its roster year after year, or even Methods of Mayhem). Novembers Doom claim ownership of the necessary balls, though: they’re slow, menacing, classy doom metal with a well-integrated melodeth twist, managing to pique interest even in their mos

Well. We’ve arrived in Minnesota and caught Restauvant, Left Lane Cruiser and Radio Moscow at the opening night of the Deep Blues Festival. I am gonna have some guest posts for y’all over the next few days and I thought, “Why not start it off with someone from Minnesota?”. Enter Neil Smith to add a little class the site. Hope y’all enjoy. Thanks to Autosy4 for letting me stick my nose in over here and sniff around. This is one of my fave sites, a necessary stop on an almost daily le

By Steve Bergstein Many years ago in high school, when I was reading a lot of rock criticism, a common theme among the more politically-oriented writers was that corporate American was killing music. The idea was that corporate-types at the record companies and radio stations were too conservative and afraid to try anything new in the way of innovative music. While these writers were correct, they overlooked another music-killer: the celebrity and rock and roll lifestyle. Many great rock a

When we caught up with him over Christmas, Cannibal Corpse bassist, Alex Webster, was looking forward to a quiet Christmas with his family. But now it’s back to business as usual - Hugh Platt caught up with him to talk gore, guts, and their new album of death metal grinds. When Britney Spears has a Parental Advisory sticker on her album, it undermines the symbol as a warning God-fearing parents to not let their little lambs get their hands on is. Not that there’s any such doubts when said