If You Like What You Hear, Then Go Tell Somebody: An Interview with dUg Pinnick (King's X) Doug (dUg) Pinnick has been at this for a while. In fact, his first interactions with music predate even his own memory. When Steve and
Episode 1: Derek Brumley (Conquest) I started writing about music two years ago, mostly as a joke, and have now found myself producing material for an actual website called ThisDayInMetal.
Paying Tribute to the Gods: An Interview with Derek Brumley (Conquest) Derrick Brumley told me a story about how his older brother's girlfriend left the first Black Sabbath record at his childhood home one
John Garcia at Elsewhere (Brooklyn, NY) Stoner rock legend John Garcia played an electric last show of a two-week North American run, dubbed the Tour of the Valedores, on May 29th
It's Maynard's Birthday Party and I'll Buy If I Want To... Usually when you buy a ticket to go see a show, you walk in the doors and are fairly certain of what you’re going
In Flames at Warsaw (Greenpoint, NY) In Flames played their first headlining show in Brooklyn in almost 25 years on May 3rd in Greenpoint, Brooklyn at Warsaw. It was the Swedish
The Sonic Ride: Johan Borgede of Astroqueen on the Band’s Hiatus, Reunion and Future Astroqueen released their full-length debut, Into Submission, in 2001. It is a cult classic in the world of stoner rock and metal. To date, they
No Words: The Versatile Role of the Instrumental on the Classic Metal Album Sometimes, all you need is the music. Literally, just the music. No vocals. I’ve always been a huge fan of a fully instrumental track.
Stepping Outside the (Concert Comfort) Circle: Shadows Fall’s 20th Anniversary Show for The War Within Shadows Fall’s 20th Anniversary Show for The War Within
Nine Songs from the Nineties ...and the Muses That Inspired Them On a surface level, most songs you hear are fairly straight forward in their meanings. You’ve got your classic themes: love, anger, betrayal, depression,
A Light in the Black: Seven Songs That Explain the History and Legacy of Rainbow If you grew up in the late 1980s and early 1990s like I did, you think you know all you need to know about classic
A Series of Unfortunate Concert Events…and Some (Written) Rules to Enhance Your Experience I’ve been to a lot of different shows in a lot of different places lately. And what I’ve been seeing has been making
