What do Vinny Appice, Rex Brown, Mark Zavon, and Jason 'Dewey' Bragg have in common? Initial thinking is they all own homes in coastal North Carolina. Or, that they're really big fans of old English slang for sugarcane-based swill. But really the four heavy metallers have hard rocking as a share point. Vinny needs no introduction. Same for Rex. As for Matt, well, the six-stringer was in Ratt and ...

Wow, there’s not a lot that’s good this week, but there CERTAINLY is enough for me to spray my birdshit all over. Let’s start out with the boobalicious Jill Janus, and her band HUNTRESS. This former DJ Tuesdae isn’t afraid of using her body to get a little attention for her band. This is pretty standard heavy metal fare: not horrible, not so good either. It’s been done to ...

Watain's arrival in the US might be bad news to priggish guardians of Christian morality but it's good news for butchers who have ordinarily found animal's blood harder to shift than the flesh. Watain require a lot of blood, and it doesn't have to be fresh. It's better if it isn't. We can only presume that the weeks-old lifeblood of some farm animal has been apportioned into the unholy grail and ...

Here’s my first holy shit column, as documented in the annals of the Deciblog. Check it out to get an idea of what I’m holy shitting about. If you’re like me – and my sincerest sympathies and condolences if you are – you’re of the opinion that Italy’s Raw Power is the greatest hardcore bands in the history of full sleeve tattoos. I’m not going to get into a debate about who ...

In case you haven't noticed, a third of 2012 has somehow already come and gone. Not only has this year already seen a bunch of great records hit shelves, but there are plenty more on the horizon. And what better way to kick off the remaining 66.7% of 2k12 than with Tuesday's release of the new Horseback album, which earned Brent Burton's praise in our June issue. Coming on the heels of ...

All it takes is a minute and sixteen seconds for Toronto's Greys to get your attention by effortlessly sliding a punk rock shiv into your nether regions and then clicking off another song. The Canadian trio releases EP Easy Listening on May 22, and "Post-American" is the lead-off track, a dissonant, malformed anthem that finds the hooks between salvos of noise and mathrock riffage. While ...

What’s the meaning behind Alpha Noir and Omega White? Other than beginning/end and black/white or evil/good. Fernando Ribeiro: If we chose to ignore the detail who runs mankind and the world since the dawn of knowledge and conscience, birth and death, solar/lunar, dare to know/ignorance is bliss, the best thing I have to offer is that Alpha Noir is someone screaming at your face while Omega ...

There is no metal on Maui. We looked. The most metal thing we found was the lumbering, acrid smoke-belching Sugar Cane Train that Saxon will no doubt write a song about on their upcoming 57th album, which is going to be a concept record dedicated to various forms of transportation. (Also set for inclusion are "Filth 'Hound of Hoboken," their paean to riding the Greyhound across America, and ...

Honestly, it's pretty fucking close. Municipal Waste and Toxic Holocaust, two bands that, as Tankcrimes honcho Scotty Heath says, "brought thrash back from the basements to the big stage" join forces on the Toxic Waste 12-inch. Savor that genius for a second. While we've only got the art available for you right now, (courtesy of the always-inspired Andrei Bouzikov), we can tell you it's ...

Just when we thought metal fashion faux pas couldn't get any worse this year than Varg Vikernes playing a bizarre game of living Stratego in his backyard, here comes the New York Times with an article entitled "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Metal Model" to prove us all wrong. Seems Moscot, a New York-based eyewear manufacturer, needed subjects for a spring ad campaign its creator describes as ...