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No other band has become more synonymous with extreme metal than Slayer. While Reign in Blood (1986) is often cited as the group’s definitive release, it’s their previous efforts that are the very definition of blood-soaked satanic imagery. The hellish ...

“From Ennio I ask for themes that clothe my characters easily. He’s never read a script of mine to compose the music, because many times he’s composed the music before the script is ever written. What I do is give ...

There’s no denying the stigma that mental health carries with it. As someone who’s been fighting an uphill battle with depression for two decades, I’m still dismissed as a pariah by some because of my afflictions. The gap between empathy ...

Capturing lightning in a bottle is not half as hard as folks make it out to be. You just have to find the right combination of brains, vision, full hearts, piss with the vinegar, money, stimulants of all sorts of ...

Few bands possess a more polarizing reputation than Metallica. To some, they’re the forebearers of thrash and arguably the most influential and successful metal band of all time. The group, who in just over a decade went from an underground ...

Despite the fact that the term “transcending genre” has perhaps itself already become a cliché, at least in film discussion, the fact nevertheless remains that much like certain filmmakers, there also exists in music select bands and artists that treat ...

When women make waves, always expect something powerful to happen. Along with that, also expect the knee-jerk barking dog-like refrain from the threatened to react. In Western culture, especially here in the US, there are few things more terrifying than ...

One of the more unfortunate pieces of historical revisionism propagated by various mainstream cultural outfits since the dawn of the new millennium is the puzzling notion that the ’90s were a time of stagnation for metal. Most fans by now ...

There’s no denying the impact that Slayer made during the 1980s. All these years later and we’re still discussing Reign in Blood as if it was just released last week. In an age where heavy metal constantly drew disdain from ...

The tagline for American Graffiti (1973) asked its audience “Where were you in ’62?” Depending on who you might ask, George Lucas captured vintage Americana with vivid accuracy. Hot rods and rock and roll are all part of a tapestry ...