First WTF Sundays is out, Silly Sundays is in. It rolls off the tongue better and includes no IMspeak. Manowar may not be the only Barbarian metal band, but they are at least arguably the funniest. Incidentally, in case … Read More
More theatrical fake-blood rock than metal, but hey, Alice Cooper is a swell guy. My understanding is that the original deal was a band called the “Alice Cooper Band,” which eventually (d)evolved into just one dude with some backing music … Read More
As promised last week, I bring you Warlock for this week’s installment of Metal Mondays. Checking my CD shelf, I can confirm that I still own the entire Warlock/Doro Pesch discography up to 1991 or so (including the Rare Diamonds … Read More
Everyone loves Iron Maiden. How could you not? Some love early pre-Dickinson Maiden. Some love Dickinson. (Nobody really loves post-Dickinson Maiden.) Most Maiden fans don’t really love Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, which is kind of later Dickinson. I … Read More
Just a quick metal Monday. This blog posts a never-ending barrage of awesome metal/hard rock covers. It’s pretty fun stuff and it makes me once again pose the question…does anyone know of a good rapidshare download manager that works with … Read More
You may all be wondering why I’m posting about metal on Mondays (late, as today is Tuesday) on a blog centered on our far less metal band, The Motion Sick. Well, partly I am hoping to instill a sense of … Read More
For all you Brazilian thrashers out there, here’s a bit of Sepultura doing “Dead Embryonic Cells.” The lyrics are kind of hilarious in a silly metal sort of way (see last week’s post on Metalocalypse). I was talking to a … Read More
A very late Metal Mondays. This week is a tribute to the fine TV show Metalocalypse featuring the band Dethklok. I’ve only seen the first season. It’s a pretty great parody of death metal and it captures a lot of … Read More
In 1991, I was an avid Headbanger’s Ball viewer. I even met host Riki Rachtman at Lollapalooza 2. This video (though not all that “metal”) caught my eye. It was by a band called Bullet LaVolta. They toured with a … Read More
I just made up that I might be doing a weekly thing called “Metal Monday.” This simply means that I’ll post something metally on every Monday that I remember to. Here’s the first one. It’s some later-era Judas Priest. Ridiculous … Read More