It’s fair to say that heavy metal was co-opting classical and jazz even before there was a name for it. Deep Purple helped invent metal in the ‘70s, but before churning out Something Wicked
Metal to Keep You on Garde
July 6th, 2017 | by Brian O'Neill | published in Something Wicked | Leave A Comment »
It’s fair to say that heavy metal was co-opting classical and jazz even before there was a name for it. Deep Purple helped invent metal in the ‘70s, but before churning out The Novelty of Metal
June 29th, 2017 | by Brian O'Neill | published in Something Wicked | Leave A Comment »
Some metalheads take this shit way too seriously. They look at novelty metal bands and scoff at the concept forgetting that the almighty Venom used Satan as shtick, that many a The Moods of Metal
June 12th, 2017 | by Brian O'Neill | published in Something Wicked | Leave A Comment »
Depressive black metal and doom metal are genres stereotypically steeped in darkness—and not without good reasons. But man cannot live on dread alone. Witness Farsot, a German The Metal Spirit
May 24th, 2017 | by Brian O'Neill | published in Something Wicked | Leave A Comment »
Spirituality in metal can be a touchy subject, but there is no denying that some of the best metal bands use their music as a conduit to express what it means to them—and we're It’s Better to Go Somewhere Slow Than Nowhere Fast
May 14th, 2017 | by Brian O'Neill | published in Something Wicked | Leave A Comment »
Redundancies abound with Mammoth Mammoth, whose latest album encourages you to Mount the Mountain. Unsurprisingly, the band
Decibel Metal & Beer Fest
The Fillmore, Philadelphia, April 22–23
May 10th, 2017 | by Brian O'Neill | published in Something Wicked | Leave A Comment »
Despite the stereotype of the metal fan as someone with a PBR tallboy tattoo, the craft brewing craze has infected heshers as well. Diversity Reigns in the Metal Underground
May 2nd, 2017 | by Brian O'Neill | published in Something Wicked | Leave A Comment »
A venue such as Kung Fu Necktie exists in every decent-sized city in America. There, a band such as Junius, who has been plugging along for years
Doom Metal:
Not Only Slow
April 27th, 2017 | by Brian O'Neill | published in Something Wicked | Leave A Comment »
Metal music was arguably first conceived as “doom metal” since the originators in Black Sabbath, particularly the Sainted Tony Iommi, and the horror
Space:
The Metal Frontier
April 10th, 2017 | by Brian O'Neill | published in Something Wicked | Leave A Comment »
When the guitarist said they were CME, a voice from the crowd asked what it stood for, to which he haltingly replied, “Chinese... Mars... Experiment.” Such is life