Death Metal MusicMusic and Culture on the Edge

Anger for anger this morning. I cannot be tolerant of people so whipped up by internet gas bags, talk radio and Fox News that they will keep their children home next Tuesday rather than risk letting them hear a speech from President Obama on the importance of doing well in school. Hysterical hissy fit doesn’t begin to describe this asinine cowardice. Rural route Utah polygamists aren’t this controlling when it comes to their children. Some Minnesota school districts are actually so cow

When television or movies takes on a particularly underground art form and tells a story about it, there’s one hell of a risk of getting everything wrong, or just plain looking stupid. That’s even worse when the art is as obsessed with authenticity as underground metal music. Metal has always in desperate fear of “poseurs,” and of the idea that anything with a hint of mainstream acceptance is the mark of “falsehood.” So it would seem that Detroit Metal City is a risky undertaking for its creato