I'm Walking Towards Dead End, and I'm Walking All Alone: The Tragic Genius of Alexi Laiho “It sounds like Zakk Wylde, but better.” – Zakk Wylde This is the way that Zakk Wylde, Ozzy Osbourne’s axeman for decades and widely regarded
What Will They Say, When I've Gone Away?: An Elegy for Reel Big Fish If you’re a more refined ska fan, like me, and know the intimate details of their discography, you may remember an obscure song on
Every Night The Dream Is The Same: Warrel Dane and the Shakespearean Tragedy of Nevermore’s Dreaming Neon Black When the word tragedy gets used in a literary sense, it generally refers to a play or story that ends unhappily due to the fall
One Day, One Way, Can’t Miss! Archbishop Harold Holmes and Jack White’s Genius Marketing of No Name Jack White has never been one for doing things the conventional way. Whether it’s taking his wife’s surname during his first marriage, creating
A Journey Through the Desert: Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, and My Pilgrimage to Sky Valley The stretch of highway that connects Los Angeles and other more urbanized areas of California to the Mojave Desert is a fairly scenic, if not
If You Like What You Hear, Then Go Tell Somebody: My Unlikely Interview with Dug Pinnick of King's X About 15 years ago, I went to go see King’s X perform at The Crazy Donkey in Farmingdale and met their lead singer and
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.
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
I’m Judge and I’m Jury and I’m Executioner, Too: Who Deserves the Most Blame for Metallica’s St. Anger? I regret to inform you all that I had a very unfortunate experience about a week ago. I listened to Metallica’s 2003 release, St.
Can't You (Road) Trip Like I Do? Summer is finally here! The weather’s warm and the living is easy. Time to relax, enjoy some time off, and maybe take a vacation
