February 2012
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Ever wondered how to dance to Meshuggah? Watch this (in 13/7)
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20 Years Of Black Metal Evolution – Part #3
In the third entry to his four-part feature on how black metal has evolved in the 20 years since Darkthrone’s seminal second album, A Blaze In The Northern Sky, was released, Tom Dare now moves on to look at how bands have incorporated the musical sounds specific to their region of origin into their sound…
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20 Years Of Black Metal Evolution – Part #2
In this second part of his four-part feature into Black Metal’s sonic evolution over the last two decades, Tom Dare is setting his sights on two aspects of the genre’s evolution that almost seem to run counter to the musical tenets of its early years. Today he’s looking at how Black Metal has come to embrace both its proggier and more ambient sides….
Feb 28th
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20 Years Of Black Metal Evolution – Part #1
With Sunday just past marking the 20th anniversary of the release of Darkthrone’s A Blaze In The Northern Sky (and therefore being pretty much the closest thing to a birthday that black metal can claim to have), over the coming week we’re letting Tom Dare off the leash to run his mouth about one of metal’s most controversial off-shoots. But instead of rehashing the same-old same-old tales from...
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In case you missed the news on Friday:
Black Sabbath cancel ALL European dates EXCEPT Download Festival 2012. You’ve read the title? Right. That’s the gist of the story. Black Sabbath will no longer be performing any of their previously announced European tour dates, with the exception of Download Festival 2012. In place of the majority of the cancelled shows, an ‘Ozzy & Friends’ gathering (including Geezer Butler, Zakk Wylde,...
Feb 20th
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Feb 17th
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Live: Mastodon, The Dillinger Escape Plan + Red...
Yeah, it’s that tour. The one the US had last year and we were all really jealous about. Oh well. We got it too. Mastodon and The Dillinger Escape Plan released the Thrash Hits Album of the Year of 2011 and 2010 respectively. Red Fang released an album last year but it went largely unnoticed. Shit happens. The good news is that we went to Brixton (and Manchester) to see this tour. Is that good...
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Live: Basick Records Fest @ London Camden Barfly –...
British indy label Basick Records put on their own night in London, featuring instrumental tech metal(/cheese) one-piece Chimp Spanner (yes, he did bring a backing band), excellent French atmospheric tech metallers Uneven Structure and French mentalist The Algorithm. We went along to bang our heads in 17/8 time signature.
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Throats want you to download their entire...
Throats were one of those bands that burned hard and burned fast. In the three of so years of the band’s lifespan, everyone kinda took them for granted. The band had shrugged off the “hipster grind” tag that their less-imaginative critics loved to throw at them, and had started to become a real force all of their own, when in and then in December 2010 they announced in December 2010 that they...
Feb 17th
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Future Hits 113: Conan
Conan From: Liverpool, UK Lazy equation: (Sleep + Batillus) x as many MATAMP amps as you can get your hands on. URL: Website //  Facebook Thrash Hits Verdict: We first became aware of Conan last year, when one of our photographers, Matt Thomas, started singing their praises at us. Well, when say “singing”, we really mean “sent us an email”. Given that like Conan, he’s based up in Liverpool,...
Feb 17th
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Vice have just started showing a serialisation of their excellent documentary, Heavy Metal In Baghdad. If you’ve not seen it before, now’s your chance.
Feb 13th
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WHINE: Motörhead wine outlawed in Iceland
That excellent play on words aside, THIS IS ÖUTRAGEÖUS. Motörhead’s quite delicious Australian Shiraz will not be sold in Iceland because the band is synonymous with being a bit naughty. The fear is that the sale of Lemmy & co’s fruity number could result in leading our North Atlantic friends into a life of angry, speed-fuelled debauchery. Cripes. Click here to read more about their heinous...
Feb 11th
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gregpuciato: Mastodon. Impossibly heavy right now. Whole floor feels like its gonna cave in.
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Apparently Shinedown just confirmed onstage at the...
Erm…yeah, that’s about it. It’s also been confirmed by Andy Copping, the festival’s promoter, via his Twitter account, so apparently it’s legit. We’ve got nothing else to add about Shinedown. That’s how exciting this news is. Please continue to carry on with whatever it is you were doing before we wasted 30 seconds of your time with this.
Feb 8th
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The video for ‘Parasitic Twins’, the new single from The Dillinger Escape Plan, is suitably messed-up. It totally fits the mood of Option Paralysis’ spaced-out closing track though.
Feb 8th
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