So Mercenary shed 50% of their line-up last year, losing vocalist Mikkel Sandager, drummer Mike Park Nielsen, and keyboardist Morten Sandager because they “no longer share the same vision” for…

…earth where capes are not frowned upon. The LARP-friendly park space in Role Models is one of them; another is evidently the V.I.P. beer tent at 2006’s Download Fest in…

…tour manager and told us we had to get off the bus. So 8 o’clock in the morning we had to dump all our shit in the parking lot and…

…“when they can” seems to be “right now.” They’re playing Skumfest on December 18 at the Cobalt Cafe in Canoga Park, CA, along with some other killer bands, like The…

…come off as some square douche who just saw his first black metal show, let me fully disclose the fact that I “get” it. I used to love stuff like…

…parking lot in Lubbock, TX, AKA the road! While I could write about the military strategy Lonestar and Ryan used to get the Whiskey A Go Go dancers on the…

…continued the party by setting up their own shanty town in the venue parking lot until show time. At present time we’re not sure whether the bands were successful in…

…(sigh), Linkin Park (dear god), Nickelback (barf!), and possibly the hunky haircut bands with the sentence names (varies). For the love of Geoff, the next best option is Rihanna with…

…Wilson mixing. Like every Opeth fan I know except Metal Injection’s Frank Godla (who only likes early Opeth, of course), I consider Blackwater Park to be Opeth’s flagship album and…

…a six-month subscription to Decibel. I’ve noticed some dude in the comments regularly positing Linkin Park Hybrid Theory. You know That One Guy at the bar who hits on every…

…the squares who vote for these things will all recognize their name, and if they actually listen to the music, “El Dorado” is only semi-melodic song here, so it will…

…thing from some square who saw his juvenile delinquent cousin in a Slayer shirt once and got a bright idea. No no no, clearly someone or everyone at this company…

…around for damn close to a year — have announced tour dates for 2011. Thus far, they’re all headlining festival gigs, like Rock im Park/Rock am Ring in Germany, Download…

…Boom, your shopping’s done. Little sis is pumped. Have a stellar Thanksgiving, commenteriat. See you at Love and Other Drugs, or at least in the Parking Lot for Real Drugs….

Yep! This was filmed in Monastiraki Square in Athens. If these fellas get this excited about a brass band, imagine how apeshit they must go at a Septic Flesh show….

…dancing in all these crazy ways. I had no idea what it meant, but that was the spark that got me dancing and listening to metal music. Growing up I…

…direction.” So, Sir Balls, congrats; you win a trio of Sepulchral Production black metal albums. This week, in celebration of Rammstein’s upcoming December 11th gig at Madison Square Garden in…

…group collaborates with Patton on various tracks of their own as well, and releases albums under his Ipecac label) and opening for The (fucking) WHO at Madison Square Garden. Yup….

…Loch Ness Monster) at the Okanagan Lake near Kelowna, BC is a small detour away, and then Lake Louise at Banff National Park, and of course Glacier National Park. You…

…me laugh the loudest: jadedkid: “Hit by a rogue dildo at an IWABO show.” AetherJake: “Forced into a baby costume and eaten by Dino.” Carly Park: “Getting beaten to death…