Review: Boy Sets Fire – After The Eulogy
Hardcore heavy with so many excursions into melody, you might forget they are hardcore. The CD opens with the title track, a raging over the top jam of yells, riffs with a huge drum presence and gets the blood pumping proper.
Review: Sixty Watt Shaman – Seeds of Decades
Yee-haw! Dem boys from back East knows how to rock. Yep, damned if it don’t sound like Jethro Tull and Lynyrd Skynyrd done had themselves a baby and named it Sixty Watt Shaman. Des boys new record “Seeds of Decades” sounds like somethin’ I used to hear on Uncle Jeb’s 8-Track stereo system a few years back.
Review: Abductors – The End is Near
If you’re sick and tired of all the “pick it ups” and “lets go, yeah, 1 2 3 4’s” then the Abductors premiere CD “The End is Near” is for you my friend. With raunchy, stinging guitars and sinister lyrics that could make even the most braindead punk rock dropout think, the Abductors slam forward with old Dayglow Abortions, Angry Samoans style LA punk rock.
Interview: Rhymesayers
<interview conducted Winter 2000>
The Rhymesayers are a crew of MC’s, breakers, and graffiti artists based out of the Midwest. Many look at them as some of the pioneers of the current hip hop scene in that area. They include such talented MC’s as Eyedea, Slug, Beyond, Spawn, RSE, and many others. I got to talk to Slug from Atmosphere a little bit on what part Hip Hop plays in his life.
Interview: Downset
I arrived at the Palace at 3:35pm, a good five hours before Downset was scheduled to go on stage, and half an hour before my interview time slot. Apparently, I’m supposed to meet Downset’s agent by the side entrance, and gain access to Rey, the singer. Well, the big hairy ugly guy won’t let me in, no matter what. I spot James, from Downset, getting out of his car in the parking lot, and decide to see if he can help me out. I think he recognizes me from our interview with him at Tattoo the Earth, and he shakes my hand. I tell him the problem, and he tells me he’ll try to find Rey. Bigfoot lets him in, and he disappears into the Palace. I wait more.
Interview: Earth Crisis
<interview conducted winter of 2000>
How long has the tour been and how much longer do you guys have to go?
We are out with Skinlab, In Flames and Walls of Jericho for two months this summer, and after that we’re gonna do a tour with Glassjaw.
How has the response been, towards the tour and the new record? Do you think more so positive or negative?
We’ve never put out an album that’s been as well received by the press and fans as “slither”. It’s amazing. We’re on 22 commercial radio stations in the United Sates right now. We’re on a lot of radio stations in Australia and in mainland Europe. Terrorizer, Metal Hammer, Metal Mania have all given our CD rave reviews so it’s a real exciting time for us.
Interview: Rob Halford. Metal God.
In the beginning…there was Sabbath. Sabbath begat metal which begat Judas Priest. There is no metal record collection in the world that does not contain a Priest album in there somewhere. They are what many of today’s new metal and hard rock stars were getting stoned to in high school. You just can’t fuck with Priest.
Interview: Shannon Wheeler – Too Much Coffee Man
What was your first introduction to comics?
The cartoons in Playboy. I was young enough to be more interested in the comics than the naked ladies.
Review: Sloppy Meateaters – Shameless Self Promotion
Scratch any preconceived notions you might have about a two-member, pop-punk band from Georgia. All right, now listen to Sloppy Meateaters. These guys are pretty damn decent – considering that they’re young, lacking a bassist on this album (one guy played drums, the other did vocals, guitar and bass) and, well, they’re from Georgia, for Gods sake.
Review: Subway to Sally – Hochzeit
Metal, since its hey day, has split into four discernable groups by mellowing out (Metallica, Megadeth), combining with hip hop (Korn, Limp Bizkit) or industrial/dance (White Zombie) and simply limping on, suffering from lack of innovation and bad song writing (Good god! They’re legion). The German group, Subway To Sally, have been offering something different. On “Hochzeit”, or translated, “Wedding”, their fifth album, the group is heavier than ever.