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Review: Scott Kelly / Steve Von Till: The Wake / A Grave Is a Grim Horse

As metal approaches its fourth decade of existence, it raises the question of what metallers do when they get old. With the help of Viagra, 62 year-old Lemmy of Motörhead is still going strong. Judas Priest's Rob Halford, 56, and Iron Maiden's Bruce ...

From COSMO LEE, Pitchfork,  19 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Scott Kelly (musician),  Steve Von Till,  Rob Halford,  Bruce Dickinson,  Ozzy Osbourne

Feature: Interview: Ministry

AJ: No, I got my influences from 70s bands-- Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, blah blah blah. When I was growing up, we had all these crazy bands on the Top 40. Today, if Pink Floyd released "Money", it wouldn't even get played. Pitchfork: You weren't listening ...

From COSMO LEE, Pitchfork,  17 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Sharon Osbourne,  Pink Floyd,  Ian MacKaye,  Trent Reznor,  George W. Bush

Review: Opeth: Watershed

Not all prog is created equal. Take prog metal, for instance. In one corner are Mastodon, who are prog to the core: long songs, lots of noodling, worship of 1970s Genesis (at least on the part of drummer Brann Dailor, an avowed Phil Collins acolyte). ...

From COSMO LEE, Pitchfork,  4 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Fredrik Ã…kesson,  Brann Dailor,  Mikael Ã…kerfeldt,  Phil Collins,  Neil Peart

Review: Leviathan / Lurker of Chalice: Massive Conspiracy Against All Life / Lurker of Chalice

The one-man band has come a long way from the stereotypical busker laden with instruments from head to foot. With today's technology, individuals often surpass the capabilities and limits of full bands. Black metal, in particular, has embraced solo ...

From COSMO LEE, Pitchfork,  2 Jun 2008
Related Topics: eBay Inc.

Soilwork - Sworn to a Great Divide

oilwork came up in the mid-'90s Swedish melodic death metal explosion alongside peers like In Flames and At the Gates. As metal paradigm shifts go, it was fairly conservative. Basically, bands sped up Iron Maiden's guitar harmonies and added death ...

From COSMO LEE, Stylus Magazine,  30 Oct 2007

Behold..The Arctopus / Byla & Jarboe - Skullgrid / Viscera

ew musicians create their own vocabularies; fewer create their own worlds. While Colin Marston and Kevin Hufnagel have made diverse, quality music on their own, it's fortunate they found each other, as few others speak their musical language. ...

From COSMO LEE, Stylus Magazine,  26 Oct 2007
Related Topics: John Woo

Jesu - Lifeline

ustin Broadrick is prolific, but this is ridiculous. His Jesu project has five releases in 2007—the full-length Conqueror, the Sundown/Sunrise EP, a split LP with Eluvium, the EP, and the Pale Sketches odds-and-ends compilation. One of extreme ...

From COSMO LEE, Stylus Magazine,  23 Oct 2007

Top Ten Songs with Raps in the Middle

n the early '90s, recording contracts must have had boilerplate clauses requiring songs to have raps in the middle. Perhaps they were misguided attempts at crossover appeal, or early forms of affirmative action. Whatever the case, many white people ...

From COSMO LEE, Stylus Magazine,  19 Oct 2007
Related Topics: Paula Abdul,  MTV,  Julie Brown,  Reebok,  Will Smith

Impending Doom - Nailed. Dead. Risen.

raise the Lord with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings. Sing unto him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise. - Psalms 33:2-3 Loud? Check. Skillfully? Check. New? Sort of. Christian death metal has been ...

From COSMO LEE, Stylus Magazine,  16 Oct 2007
Related Topics: Barry Bonds

Dethklok - The Dethalbum

or a cartoon about a metal band, Adult Swim's "Metalocalypse" has been quite a hit. Friends and family have filled my inbox with "Have you seen this?" messages. In its first week of release, the Season 1 DVD flew off shelves. I couldn’t find it in ...

From COSMO LEE, Stylus Magazine,  15 Oct 2007

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