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METAL MONDAY: WHY PEOPLE LIKE TO HATE SLIPKNOT
posted: October 5, 2009
Slipknot, the band so many metal fans love to hate while others hate to love, created a schism among nearly all metal listeners upon the band’s inception in 1997. Troves of angst-ridden, mall-invading teens adopted…
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UNDER COVERS VOLUME 5: METAL SONGS ACOUSTIFIED
posted: October 3, 2009
Welcome to the fifth installment of Under Covers, a biweekly column dedicated to exploring the musical possibilities of artists appreciating one another’s work on both the OurStage and national levels! A sagacious metal head once…
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METAL MONDAY: WHY ARE TOOL FANS SO OBSESSED WITH TOOL?
posted: August 31, 2009
No matter what the genre, each music scene seems to have a band notorious for its overly obsessive fans. For the jam band crowd, Phish gets this accolade; for college rock, Dispatch might get the…
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METAL MONDAY: SUMMER FESTIVAL OVERVIEW
posted: August 24, 2009
Everyone knows that summertime is festival season, and whenever people think of music festivals, they think of events like SXSW and Bonnaroo. Unless they are metalheads. For hardcore rockers, popular summer festivals include Wacken and…
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METAL MONDAY: TWENTY YEARS OF METAL
posted: August 10, 2009
Twenty years is a long time. Two whole decades. Many things can change in that amount of time, but few styles of music went through as many changes as metal. 1989 was the tipping point…
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FIRE ON THE DANCE FLOOR
posted: August 7, 2009
Remember that old Prego commercial that touted all the ingredients in their spaghetti sauce with the refrain, It’s in there!? Shinobi Ninja is very much the Prego of party music. Thirty seconds into their club…
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