Death Metal MusicMusic and Culture on the Edge

Here we are, back at 1994 when the punk was punk and the grunge was grungy. The mid ’90s was a hell of a time for film soundtracks to be perfectly honest. Every musical genre was retrofitted to movies, seamlessly holding them together, sometimes by a thin stream of consciousness ( Lost Highway ), or other times when the film enhanced the sounds of a depicted era ( Singles , The Crow ). Somewhere in the shuffle of this decade between hair bands and nu-metal, a movie came around that not so much

Sales figures are an elusive creature in the world of music: different trackers, different orders, and different sales amounts. Given enough research it is possible to come to a conclusion by adding the data together. What often adds to the confusion is the classification of musical genre, an element especially criticized by hardcore music fans worldwide. Michael Jackson might be the best selling artist of all time, but how dare his music be classified as pop when it’s actually RB? Nowhere is t

Edited by Albert Mudrian , Editor-in-Chief of Decibel magazin, Precious Metal takes you inside the recording studios where the most intense heavy metal albums of all time were created, providing background on the savage guitar sounds and bloodcurdling screams that have defined a musical genre. To compile this book, Mudrian pored through Decibel and expanded its interviews to bring you face-to-face with each and every band member who contributed to twenty-five immortal albums. Re

At a time when doom and gloom hang over Michigan like a storm cloud, a ray of sunshine still manages to penetrate the crushing haze. And in a grand irony, the light is provided partly by doom and gloom itself in the form of heavy metal, the musical genre that made its name with deep chords and growled lyrics about killing, decomposing bodies and violence.

Heavy metal is a unique musical genre, especially in Iraq. Cultural norms and security issues make the practice and performance of heavy metal almost impossible.