This is the metal ‘band’ FROSTBITE ORCKINGS. Ok… yeah… they look like an expansion set to World of Warcraft. But don’t let the video-game aesthetic throw you, The Frostbite Orckings are producing some brutality normally reserved for the most metal…
These are future responsible parents. Remember the 80’s? Maybe you don’t. But there was a large movement of ‘concern’ from parents who, lacking the ability to communicate with their own children, blamed this new thing called, ‘heavy metal’ for every…
This is Divine Chaos. They are a surgically precise, aggressively speedy, extreme thrash metal group from Slough, Berkshire, England. I dig that English bands get to be from three-area names… as opposed to our city, state protocol of marking locations of…
This is Divine Chaos. They are a surgically precise, aggressively speedy, extreme thrash metal group from Slough, Berkshire, England. I dig that English bands get to be from three-area names… as opposed to our city, state protocol of marking locations of…
This is Crisix. They are one of the thrashiest thrash bands to ever thrash. Origins are… Spain, of all places. Crazy metal Spaniards thrashing madly across the country-side. File this under ‘classic thrash’. These are the kids of parents who…
This is Dave Lombardo. He was a co-founding member of Slayer. SLAYER! Arguably one of the fastest, most brutal metal drummers. Ever. He is the ‘Godfather of the double bass’. “…when you hit the bass drum the head is still…
In 2015, Australian grindcore sludge punkers King Parrot released an album called, “Dead Set”. It dropped on Housecore Records for American distribution. Housecore is Phil Anselmo’s label. And Phil Anselmo is the gravel-for-breakfast singer of Pantera/Superjoint Ritual/Down/A bunch of other…
Old School Los Angeles band Armored Saint have announced a release date of June 2, 2015 for new full length, “Win Hands Down”. John Bush (vocals) states: “When we began talking about a new record I told Joey Vera (bass)…
(this interview originally appeared in issue #13 of Modern Fix Magazine in 2002). – interview by bushman So you’ve been hearing hard rock on the radio. People are saying metal is cool again. Labels are sticking money into the genre.…