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is the Devil's curator for the Blackest of the Black Tour, a metal mini-festival he's been presenting and headlining intermittently since 2003. The punk alumnus has reached highs ...
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...ly there were a morning zoo worth its oats in this town, this would be prime drive-time music. Who couldn't use a shot of Lady Van Buren first thing in the morning, elocutin' like after an estrogen shake? Or a bone-bashing horror-pop rhythm section pummeling behind her? Or GLK secret weapon D.F. Jimenez, who peels off the tastiest 20-second guitar solos thi...
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...lest thing in the world), Tony said, "You ever hear the Misfits?" and cued a track on his CD player. "Singled out the kids who are mean to me!" growled the deep-throated vocalist, , with a plodding ghoulish backbeat behind him. The song throbbed and bled; the lyrics were about a kid telling his mom how he hates all the kids at school. Then the music goes sil...
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...tertwine."
• Is an ardent admire of long-running American metal band Pentagram (named after a Satanic symbol), and has been to singer Bobby Liebling's house in Virginia.
• Was in the band Samhain, named after an ancient pagan holiday during which the dead are said to communicate with the living.
• Founded the adult-oriented publish...
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...ly there were a morning zoo worth its oats in this town, this would be prime drive-time music. Who couldn't use a shot of Lady Van Buren first thing in the morning, elocutin' like after an estrogen shake? Or a bone-bashing horror-pop rhythm section pummeling behind her? Or GLK secret weapon D.F. Jimenez, who peels off the tastiest 20-second guitar solos thi...
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... I found music," he says, recalling how the Misfits shook him to the core. Growing up in a strict home ("not like snake-handlers but fairly religious"), and hearing Misfits singer sing, "I ain't no goddamn son of a bitch" on "Where Eagles Dare" was a revelation.
"Singing along with that, with friends, on a little shitty jambox, while we were skateboardin...
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Best known for incredibly catchy punk songs about murder and monsters, Misfits-Samhain mastermind is the only alumnus from hardcore's original old-school scene to land an album at No. 1 on Billboard's classical album chart, with 1993's Black Aria. More sophisticated and eclect...
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...t a couple of months ago, he was cracked with a bottle across the eyes outside a bar, fracturing a bone in his face. And this is the guy who's infamous worldwide for knocking down with one punch at a Tuba City show (an incident captured on video and disseminated by AzPunk.com). The North Side Kings front man seems to be a trouble magnet, which seems kind of...
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...or, and Whiplash. He was also in the Phoenix-based bands Cause for Alarm and North Side Kings with singer Danny Marianino (better known around Phoenix as "that guy who knocked out "). Last we heard, Scaglione was living in Phoenix with his wife and drumming for several "projects."
Paul Bostaph (drummer: 1992-1996, 1997-2001): Bostaph had already drummed fo...
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..." Hanna pressed assault charges; Love eventually pleaded guilty and had to get anger-management counseling.
Your winner: Courtney Love
Good Vs. Evil (2004)
In this corner:
And in this corner: North Side Kings singer Danny Marianino
Let's get ready to rumble: Upset that his band had gotten bumped from a multi-group bill in Tuba City headlined b...
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...who plays the video's laughable heavy. (Stone recently gained notoriety for having shot the downloaded-the-world-over video of North Side Kings' Danny Marianino and punching clown .)
The "Southbound" clip effectively demonstrates that Strangwayes, drummer Bill Schumann, guitarist Jay Hofer and bassist Uncle Dave have the considerable musical chops to warra...
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A conversation between two guys, "Jeff" and "Frank," recently overheard at a diner at 2:45 a.m.
JEFF: Okay, so if fought Henry Rollins, who'd win?
FRANK: Man, that's the oldest one ever!
JEFF: C'mon, who'd win? I say Rollins -- he's like a foot taller and way tougher than that shrimp.
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...te debut, playing new songs like "Phantasmagoria" and "Every Day's a Funeral" at live shows.
Somewhat quiet in person, onstage Jim is a commanding presence, singing like a young . Bobby is more aloof, a shyer front man than his brother -- like Liam to Noel Gallagher. Dave twirls his sticks and mugs in the background. From the audience's perspective, you wo...
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...ssee Two) or Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (who accompanied him on Unchained), it has always sounded like Johnny Cash. Whether he was singing 19th-century spirituals or songs by , Tom Waits and Beck, it's always sounded like Johnny Cash. Whether it's just him and a guitar or him and U2, it's always sounded like Johnny Cash. He's his own genre, definitely h...
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...ry" militant vegan stance with proletarian incentive. Just the sort of Stinglike pap one could expect from a bunch of limey millionaires.
Danzig
6:66 Satan's Child
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still derives meaning from that haggard old myth known as Jim Morrison. Blame-displacements ("The more you give/The more they take") and non sequiturs ("I am teethy of fire/Taste ...
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... Unfortunately, the English language does not contain sufficiently graphic adjectives to describe the butchering that this Lennon-McCartney classic gets at the hands of these four -looking mutant half-breeds. The song is an interminably slowed-down, beefed-up, fuzzed-out version that sodomizes George Harrison's guitar riff, and molests the Fab Four's melody,...
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...it a healthy love for furious metal, speed punk and psychedelic blues. While Nirvana had pop leanings, Kyuss was more metal-based, even sounding free-form at times. Something like if he'd gotten Blue Cheer to back him up. "I don't know how you'd categorize Blue Cheer," says Oliveri laughing. "But I don't consider Kyuss metal. There might be some elements of...
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...ent of murder ballads and religious hymns and war stories, music that drips with blood.
Cash and his guitar are the only two sounds heard, and he sings the words of Nick Lowe, , Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and others--not to mention a few of his older, lesser-known songs--and wrings the life (and death) from them. Contained within is a stark, desolate portr...
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...Morrison knockoff who deserves the Police of Bad Poetry prize. All that goofy Death/Ashes/Sacrifice/Blood/Darkness imagery is just so banal. "Teenagers From Mars" it ain't.
Is a real tough guy? I mean, is he threatening with all them muscles? Nah, his Fred Flintstone physique and corny Jim Nabors baritone render the pose laughable. Truly, the only thing...
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: The Goth-metal superhero has now mastered the macabre in a totally new realm, via his comic-book company, Verotik. Glenn, in the Valley for his band's show on Friday, October 25,...
