Interview with Black Sabbath biographer Brian Aberback
By Lucas McPherson Brian Aberback is a freelance music writer who spent 15 years writing for "The Record" newspaper, various magazines and websites. He’s most passionate about the hard rock and heavy metal genres. His first book with Enslow Publishers, ...
Tastes Too Good to be Bitter
"Steve Brightman’s poems are short, the lines are short, the words are, if not short, simple." By Victor Schwartzman There isn’t much widely known about Steve Brightman, though in this marvelous information age we supposedly know everything abo ...
CD Review: Voivod – Target Earth
"Layer upon layer is plied and piled like a metal JENGA tower ever threatening to collapse but always managing to defy gravity." Review by David Feltman For an album that wasn’t going to exist, Target Earth boisterously announces a new era for Canada’s ...
Film Review: “Mama”
"The time the film takes to flesh out its characters makes the finale as poignant as it is frightening." "Don't look at her. She's angry." Review by David Feltman Most horror fans will tell you that a PG-13 rating is something that should be a ...
CD Review: Philip Anselmo & The Illegals/Warbeast – War of the Gargantuas
War of the Gargantuas features everything a metal fan could hope for in a split EP. Review by David Feltman Split EPs are simple pleasures that are slowly disappearing in the digital age. Like compilations, splits are meant to promote new or ob ...
Film Review: “Texas Chainsaw 3D”
“No one loves you like your family.” Review by David Feltman Right from the opening credits, “Texas Chainsaw” attempts to tie itself as closely as possible to Tobe Hooper’s original film and keep it’s distance from the recent Platinum Dunes remakes. T ...
Film Review: “Django Unchained”
“Kill white folks and they pay you for it? What’s not to like?” Review by David Feltman Quentin Tarantino has built his brand on cribbing exploitation templates and aestheticizing (some may say fetishizing) them. Gangsters, war flicks, car/roa ...
Top 10 Films of 2012
by David Feltman In full disclosure, some of these movies came out last year. “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia,” "The Artist" and "Jiro Dreams of Sushi" all had festival releases in 2011 but they didn't get a wide release until this year. Likewise, ...
David’s Top 10 Albums of 2012
Since releasing bulky double EPs as single LPs seems all the rage this year, I’m drawing up my “Best of 2012” top 10 as a double top five instead. You will be treated to both “Metal” and “Not Metal” list varieties. Enjoy! Not Metal Alaba ...
Grindcore grows older, not softer: an evening with Napalm Death at Zydeco Birmingham, AL 11/26
Napalm Death has a history of chaos. So much so that its lineup almost completely changed between the A-side and B-side of its debut album, Scum. The band has none of its founding members, yet it has managed to exist for just over 30 years and boasts a ca ...