Death Metal MusicMusic and Culture on the Edge

The plague in metal grows by the minute. It’s an epidemic that’s getting worse than the bird flu, SARS or even the Ebola virus. A friend (Martin) and I went to a local show last night here in North Carolina to check out the band Seneca that recently got signed to Lifeforce Records. It was at a very small venue but due to it being a Sunday and Thanksgiving weekend it was very dead. Maybe 30 people in the place and that included members of the 5 bands that were playing. Oh yeah, There was three

October 29, 2008 7:45 AM By AADEL RASHID, ABC News Baghdad Just a few nights ago, Baghdad was rocking to more than the usual roadside bombs and mortars when some 220 heavy metal music fans gathered for Baghdad’s second heavy metal gig since the fall of Saddam’s regime in 2003. The enthusiastic male and female fans packed into a small, local venue for more than two hours to hear the Baghdad band Brutal Impact knock out popular covers from the heavy metal stable, such as Slayer’s South of Heav