A loving retrospective on Dissection’s classic opus is long overdue, and here it is, with love and fanboyism galore. One of those special albums that needs no introduction…. is olde.
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Iron Maiden from Worst to Best: 15-13
“On the 4th of September Iron Maiden will release its 16th studio album. This new platter is slated to be a double-disc monstrosity by the name of The Book of Souls, and I’m currently listening to the promo and putting together an equally epic review of it. In honor of this, I’m going to take advantage of the moment to do something I’ve wanted to do for a very, very long time: a huge Iron Maiden retrospective, spanning the band’s entire studio discography.”
Angry Metal-Fi: A Higher Resolution
“Angry Metal-Fi is a series of articles that are cross posted on Angry Metal Guy and Metal-Fi as a collaborative effort to evangelize dynamics in metal.” And this time they discus high-res recordings and the facts behind the hype.
Support AMG Writers When They Release Music: Ethereal Shroud
It isn’t everyday that a member of the AMG family releases an album, so when it happens you should probably check it out and be supportive, you thankless bastards.
AMG is Now a Good Capitalist!
“AMG has slowly grown as a web presence, crawling from the primordial ooze of internet obscurity to walk upon the shores of notoriety and bask in the warmth of the worldwide metal mindshare. With such a meteoric rise, it was inevitable that someday we would reach the dreaded cash grabby stage of blog existence. That day is nigh.” Send us your money and we’ll send you some…love.
A Call to Arms II: Helping Steel for Brains Founder Jonathan Dick in His Time of Need
“Many of you may be familiar with the Steel for Brains metal blog, run by Jonathan Dick. It has come to our attention that Jonathan’s daughter Hannah is struggling with a serious medical condition and it’s creating financial hardships for his family.” Read and find out how to help.
Cannibal Corpse Set to Record Conceptual Album Based on The Crimean War
“In a departure from their usual milieu of splatter, gore and serial killer adoration, legendary death lords Cannibal Corpse have announced plans to base their next album on the war between Russia and western powers like Britain, France and Sardinia that rocked Europe and Asia from 1853 to 1856.” You heard it here first!
Thoughts and Musings on Defenders of the Old Festival III
“As most readers are well aware, I am old. I grew up in the 80s as a precocious child of metal and still harbor a deep, abiding love for all things 80s and iron. Naturally, I’m the very demographic for a three-day festival mostly made up of bands from those bygone times. This is why Madam X and I decamped to Brooklyn, New York for the third Defenders of the Old Festival this past weekend (the first to be held in the lovely and historic borough of the Empire State).” Old meets old. Geezer Fight!
Metal Maniacs Founder/Editor Katherine Ludwig Passes Away
“We lost a great one today, folks. Katherine Ludwig, the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the seminal and groundbreaking Metal Maniacs magazine lost her battle with cancer this afternoon.”
A Treatise in Ten Arguments on the Ubiquitous Sphere and its Mystical Origin as a Proof for the Existence of a Malevolent God
“The goat’s head. The pentagram. The horns. Metal’s tropes know no death – unsurprising, given their occult origins. Yet one entity remains as persistent as the others, but far less well studied. The Sphere.” Sphere is the mind killer, but stick with Kronos and he’ll show you the only thing to sphere…is sphere itself.
