It is like the double bass too big to hold both the double basis, and the chills stands on the floor, supported by a metal peg. The role of the Chelios is very often to support the double basis by playing an octave above the double basis. This creates a stronger and more focuse...
The Devil Wears Prada helped build up metalcore’s scene identity, only to summarily burn it all down withDead Throne.From its Dan Seagrave illustrated cover to its dark production,Dead Throneshows how serious the band was about their songwriting and their desire to write one of the darkest a...
Thompson quote, “Too weird to live, too rare to die,” applies perfectly to Cynic’s technical death metal masterwork ‘Focus.’‘Focus’ was so before its time that a large majority of death metal fans simply weren’t ready for it, even booing Cynic offstage at live performances. It e...
Perry is the sole songwriter/producer of "Beautiful," which is not only one of Aguilera's biggest hits to date, but one of the biggest self-acceptance anthems of her generation. And though Aguilera didn't write the song, she knew it fit perfectly within t...
Bypassing the urge to write new material on their rocking Christmas album, 2006'sA Twisted Christmas, Twister Sister instead took the most recognizable holiday classics in the book and made them faster, louder and more aggressive. The result — which, to date, equate to the group's seventh ...
You'd be hard-pressed to find a more heartbreaking Christmas story than thisTom Waits' masterpiece from 1978'sBlue Valentine. "Charlie, I'm pregnant and living on 9th Street," begins the Christmas card narrative in which a woman writes to an old flame, reporting h...
Bypassing the urge to write new material on their rocking Christmas album, 2006'sA Twisted Christmas, Twister Sister instead took the most recognizable holiday classics in the book and made them faster, louder and more aggressive. The result — which, to date, equate to the group's seventh an...
pulled it off with shimmering excellence. The tug-of-war energy is right in line with the biggest pop hits (that’s not a knock — that shit takes immense talent to write), making “Square Hammer” a delectably irresistible call to swear your life and allegiance to the Man Downstairs. Th...
The public image of Metallica’s James Hetfield had always been that of a beer sucking, hard-case, lone wolf… but as the biggest band in thrash drifted into their Black Album era, Hetfield finally allowed himself to become vulnerable, opening up about his childhood trauma through “The God...
Theresulting endorsementwas something of a coup for Harris, in large part because Schwarzenegger’s distaste for both the Republican and Democratic parties speaks directly to the cohort of Americans the Harris campaign is targeting. Schwarzenegger’s deeply nuanced write-up is part of w...