Death Metal MusicMusic and Culture on the Edge

Goalkeeper Marcus Hahnemann enjoys a Five Finger Death Punch session before every game. Unfortunately, it's not a disgusting and painful euphemism, but rather the name of a heavy metal band he never fails to blast during pre-match preparation. Everton's number one back-up American goalkeeper is a huge metal fan, and makes no secret for his passion for the Slipknot, Mastadon and Machine Head — in ...

Three bands will rock audiences at the Keep Your Passion show held at Kandy Land Club tomorrow.

Anyone that knows me is well aware of the fact that my world is orbited quite closely by both music and gaming. Musically my tastes are wildly eclectic; however metal music is certainly at the forefront of that passion; hence being on the staff of the small metal website Ultimate Metal. While this boils down to personal tastes, I believe this is largely due to the sheer amount of escapism ...

In 2005, Saigopal Nelaturi came to Madison from Bangalore, India, to earn a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering. Since arriving here, he's pursued another interest, too -- his passion for rock. "When I was a kid I had lessons in classical Indian percussion," says Nelaturi, 28. "Then I discovered rock 'n' roll, or Western music as we call it back home, and I really got into it."

One of the ways that Music 2.0 has changed how we think about music is that there is so much interesting data available about how people are listening to music. Sites like Last.fm automatically track all sorts of interesting data that just was not available before. Forty years ago, a music label like Capitol would know how many copies the album Abbey Road sold in the U.S., but the label wouldn’t know how many times people actually listened to the album. Today, however, our iPods and desktop