Archive for the ‘RIP’ Category

Homecoming’s March: RIP Averse Sefira!

By: Shawn Macomber Posted in: RIP, featured On: Tuesday, May 8th, 2012

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Calling the split "amicable but lamentable to say the least," Averse Sefira have sadly called it a day. The long-running Austin black metallers are survived by a stellar discography -- see Advent Parallax or Tetragrammatical Astygmata for the incontrovertible evidence -- as well as a very entertaining, sporadically updated blog that explored the band's occult adventures. Here, for example, ...

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R.I.P. Riot Guitarist Mark Reale (1955-2012)

By: adem Posted in: RIP, featured, heavy tuesdays On: Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

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We're obviously not breaking the news that Riot guitarist, Mark Reale (far L in photo), passed away on January 25 from complications from Crohn's disease. Nonetheless, we wanted to pay tribute to a musician—and more importantly, a band—that hasn't gotten his/their due in American metal history. Reale was not only a founding member of Riot, he was the primary songwriter in the band. Though we ...

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RIP CORY SMOOT: DELETED SCENES FROM THE GWAR-B-Q

By: frank.lemke Posted in: RIP, featured On: Friday, November 4th, 2011

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In honor of GWAR guitarist Cory Smoot, who passed away yesterday as the band was preparing to enter Canada, we offer this typically deranged Frank Lemke review of this fall's annual GWAR-B-Q in Richmond, originally trimmed for space from the magazine. Saturday, September 17 The National, Richmond, VA The GWAR-B-Q was booked outdoors, at Hadad’s Water Park, primed to be a celebration of ...

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