“Are you a creative person?” chirps a woman on Project 9-6-1, Atlanta’s hardest rocking FM station (according to them). “Then the Savannah College of Art and Design is for you." Like a rallying cry for artists to converge on Savannah, GA, the coastal resort haven is to the raw psychedelic sludge metal in the new millennium as what nearby Athens was to the US college rock revolution in the early 90s. The members of what was to become Kylesa and Black Tusk heeded the call as did a Mr. John Dyer Baizley, formative guitarist and resident visual artist in Baroness.
Interview: Impending Doom - The Devil in Mister Settig (Hysteria Magazine)
Heavy metal is almost inseparably linked with … THE DEVIL. Iron Maiden’s Number of the Beast hit #2 in 1982 (behind Michael Jackson’s Thriller) and was immediately mired in controversy. The trend continued with the Parent’s Musical Resource Centre witch-hunts of the 1980s (they caught Dee Snider, after all) to almost routine blaming of metal in the mainstream press for heinous murders and vicious crimes. In all instances, Beelzebub was held up in effigy and consumed by flames of reactionary hate. The Devil kind of sucks when it comes to performing acts of bloodcurdling evil. In the Bible, God kills upwards of 33 million people in his name.
The Devil? Ten.
Lift your game, Lucifer.
Read the rest at Australian Hysteria Magazine online.
Review: Disolvo Animus - Aphesis (Metal as Fuck)
Heavy metal is forever. Period. But that's not to say we get bored with ourselves from time to time. Power metal seems naff until Blind Guardian releases a blinding record every few years or so. We largely ignore traditional NWOBHM until Iron Maiden drops some old school chops on us. We release a certain Norwegian neo-Nazi out of prison for arson and murder and people go apeshit with some kind of blind veneration for him. Disolvos Animus aren't bored with the spent-by-then late-90s second wave of black metal, even though the majority of metalheads are (save for one or two bands) and seem rather proud of that.
Read more at Metal As Fuck.