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share: digg facebook twitter Griffin, who visually speaking would fit right in with the gang on Sons of Anarchy, is one of the great, sadly underrated hard rock and metal guitar players, with old school chops that evoke hard rockers of the past like Black Sabbath and Steppenwolf while simultaneously sounding totally contemporary. The final song of the set (from which this DVD takes its title ...

When I was younger, I was not always happy. I found some solace for my suburban frustrations in loud, aggressive music — punk, avant-garde noise and, mostly, heavy metal.

“How much acid do you guys do?” asks a commenter on the YouTube page for the first episode of Sunset Television . It’s an appropriate question. Sunset is some old school psychedelic satire, making heavy use of rapid channel surfing editing, dark absurdist humor, and pass-the-bong image and sound effects (dropped pitch seems to really make these guys giggle) to lampoon the cheesiest of boob tube cheese as well as some unidentified flying miscellaneous weirdness. Created by Drew Blatman ,

Prosthetic Records’ has signed Seattle’s Trap Them. The band’s sound combines elements of old school Swedish death metal, punk, and d-beat and takes influence from bands such as Entombed, Black Flag, Nasum and Tragedy. Trap Them has spent time on the road with Napalm Death, Disfear, Skeletonwitch, Victims, Rotten Sound, Toxic Holocaust, and Coliseum, amongst others and has appeared at Maryland Death Fest New England Metal and Hardcore Fest. (In fact, Mark “Barney” Greenway of Napalm Death was

Did you ever wonder what would happen if In Flames wanted to take their old school material and go in a heavier direction? Actually, so did a bunch of hardcore Americans… To the credit of Dimension Zero though, they were 1. doing it earlier (first EP was back in ’97 while the first album was in ’02) 2. they’re actually from Sweden and 3. they have current and former members of In Flames (guitarist Jesper Strömblad who’s plays with In Flames, Jocke Göthberg who’s been the vocalist of I