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The ever reliable Metal Archives lists five bands with Pandas in their name. Bloody Panda a doom band with a nutty Japanese singer are ace and well worth checking out, I have never clocked any of the others though. Panda… Continue Reading →
Hopefully you have not just heard of the books about fictional metal band Eviscerated Panda by now but have grabbed and devoured them. If not, well they are about a metal act based in Reading England who have over three… Continue Reading →
Damn pandas, even when the females put on a vulgar display the males are often too nonchalant and indifferent, that’s why breeding them in captivity is such a difficult task! But this is no sexually explicit nature documentary. I am… Continue Reading →
If you like black metal chances are you have heard of the fantastic new Feral House published book ‘Black Metal Evolution Of The Cult.’ In fact you have probably bought it like I did at the first available opportunity and… Continue Reading →
It’s fair to say that most books and indeed films tackling the subject of black metal are woefully inadequate. They are either put together by outsiders trying to look in and not fully understanding or integrating with the subject matter,… Continue Reading →
Subtitled ‘Movements In The US Indie Music Underground’ Late Century Dream takes an authoritative snapshot of six relevant US enclaves and talks with those that developed them about the emerging underground musical scenes over the 80’s and 90’s. Although this… Continue Reading →
Following their meteoric rise and subsequent domination of mainstream metal in the ‘90s, Pantera’s early to mid ‘00s implosion came as somewhat of a shock. From a fan’s perspective it was a vague chain of events, seemingly initiated by the… Continue Reading →
There are many who like a bit of heavy metal in their lives and then there are those who have it defining their very existence. People at that end of the spectrum are completely obsessive over it and it goes… Continue Reading →
The idea behind this book which is expanded title wise to ‘Saints and survivors of the heavy metal scene’ could not be simpler. Take 20 infamous stars of said scene and divide them in half, one half being those who… Continue Reading →
Do not worry, no need to alert PETA, there is absolutely no harm done to any defenceless animals here. Not that pandas are exactly defenceless; would you want to piss one off? This is probably why Eviscerated Panda is a… Continue Reading →
Indeed it is “a story that’s been told countless times before.” The origins of black metal as a musical art form are always going to stir interest from those both within and outside the scene. One wonders if centuries down… Continue Reading →
For me The Day The Country Died by Ian Glasper was the book I had been waiting for years to read. Basically it was a compendium of interviews and anecdotes from all the essential Anarcho punk bands between 1980 and… Continue Reading →