Katie Brutal
Turn your head and Cough
Hi metal peeps I missed you. Did you miss me? Sorry about being MIA, sometimes life just gets in the way… but I’m still inside the matrix, I promise. Bands you should check out: Cough – signed to Relapse a few months ago, doom out of my current home Richmond, VA. Haven’t seen them live [...]
Yippee Kay Yay, Motherfucker!!!
I’m sitting here watching the clock tick tock tick tock, excited like a little girl waiting for her birthday party… I love holiday weekends. I, myself, am headed up north a couple of hours as soon as my workday is through to spend the weekend with great friends and all our dogs haha… eating ridiculously [...]
Welcome to Hell – A Review of Whitechapel’s “A New Era Of Corruption”
Phil Bozeman’s grasp on the evil, violent underbelly of, well, the world, is tighter than Rashad Evan’s chokehold, and has never been more apparent than now throughout the lyrics on Whitechapel‘s new record, A New Era Of Corruption. The album kicks off with what ends up to be one of my favourite tracks “Devolver,” about the devolution [...]
As I Lay Dying – The Powerless Rise
I credit As I Lay Dying with practically single-handedly pulling me back into metal. After college I went headfirst into my internship 40-50 hours a week and spent the rest of my time trying to make ends meet working morning shifts fulltime at Starbucks. I all but ignored new music in general, instead closing my [...]
Mastodon @ The National
Sunday night, my metal contemporary-and-friend Suzy and I approached the doors of The National in Richmond, VA. “Hi! I should be on the guestlist…?” Two texts, a phone call, a handing-of-my-phone-over-to-the-nice-smiling-chica-running-the-will-call-office-who-then-handed-the-phone-to-her-boss…. And we were in. (New town and a newer venue for me to frequent… you never know if it’s going to come through or [...]
Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza – Sounds Like They Still Rule
Here in my hand I hold one of the MANY bottles of Crown Royal downed the first time I met the dudes in Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, (during a hostile takeover – anyone remember those?! – with Despised Icon.) That pic is just a glimpse – Danza knows how to have a good time. Oh, [...]
Cannibal Corpse release video of “Priests of Sodom”
In this weird age of practically internet-only/underground support (since the yet-again-demise of Headbangers Ball,) I am often surprised when a new video is made and released by a metal band. Or, actually, any band that doesn’t have a million dollar budget for small promotions such as music videos. And although there doesn’t seem to be [...]
DragonForce Split With Singer
Just got the word from the fine folks at Roadrunner Records that DragonForce is moving forward without the vocal prowess of ZP Theart. “It is with great regret that DragonForce announce a parting of the ways with singer ZP Theart. This is due to insurmountable differences of musical opinion but the rest of the band [...]
update
Hey so… so far 2010 has been relatively uneventful. Blame snowpocalypse… I do. Haha… sigh. Ok, so metal is not revving our engines right now… I know it’s just a drought. I, in fact, have plans to see Unearth in Richmond in two weekends, and Mastodon in April. The Mayhem lineup is looking, um, interesting [...]
“hold tight, I just might, fast women are slowing me down…”
I think I’m in love. I can’t say I’ve enjoyed an album more in 2010 than Bangers, the Metal Blade debut from Montreal’s Barn Burner. Since it’s only the end of January, that statement may sound like a backhanded compliment – make no mistake: Barn Burner is the shit. I foresee these dudes quickly rising [...]