Cephalic Carnage/Summer Slaughter Tour Diary
July 21, 2010 Jesse Chase
Day 0 – BUFFALO, NY – SAN DIEGO, CA This year marks the 28th anniversary of the first and last time I ever visited my mother’s country of birth, the tiny Caribbean island of Dominica. There are a lot of things about that journey that are surprisingly fresh in my memory: the hurricane-beaten exteriors of…
Type O Negative – “Bloody Kisses”
June 14, 2010 J. Bennett
Steele (who was still working for the NYC Parks Department), guitarist Kenny Hickey, drummer Sal Abruscato and producer/keyboardist Josh Silver descended upon Systems Two in Brooklyn to record the album that would propel them into the bright lights and big titties of international rock stardom.
Pentagram – “Relentless”
June 13, 2010 J. Bennett
As convoluted back-stories go, it doesn’t get much more tangled than the one behind Pentagram’s Relentless.
Motörhead – “Ace of Spades”
May 1, 2010 Adem Tepedelen
After 60-plus Hall of Fame inductions, one thing that stands out is that precious few of those albums contain and are best known for a single truly classic song.
Dark Tranquillity – “The Gallery”
April 13, 2010 Chris Dick
Contrary to popular belief, the New Wave of Swedish Death Metal—also known by its acronym NWOSDM or synonym “The Gothenburg Sound”—wasn’t a cohesive movement.
Saint Vitus – “Born Too Late”
March 1, 2010 J. Bennett
Saint Vitus were a living, breathing anachronism in every possible way.
Enslaved – “Frost”
February 13, 2010 Chris Dick
If black metal was defined by a single year, it would have to be 1994.
Watchtower – “Control and Resistance”
January 1, 2010 Kevin Stewart-Panko
As the popularity of our Hall of Fame feature grows, so do the chances of us throwing a wild card at you folks.
Trouble – “Psalm 9”
December 1, 2009 Adem Tepedelen
It’s strange that the one of the cornerstones of doom is actually one of the most lyrically positive albums in the entire secular metal canon.
Accept – “Restless and Wild”
November 1, 2009 Adrien Begrand
In early 1982, Accept were in dire need of an identity, onstage and especially on record.