This is right up our alley… especially yours, JaPaBo:
Metal and Cultural Impact: Metal’s Role in the 21st Century
Metal Studies is a growing interdisciplinary field, connected to, though not limited to fields as diverse as Popular Culture, Leisure Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, History, English Studies, Music, Cultural and Critical Studies, Gender Studies, Critical Theory, and Business and Economics.
So I’m getting ready to start the year of First Listens, and in doing my research I come across two new Buckethead albums in January alone. I dig a little deeper, and come across this:
You Can’t Triple Stamp a Double Stamp is the seventy-fourth studio album by guitarist Buckethead, and the forty-fourth installment of the Buckethead Pikes Series.
Mötley Crüe is hanging it up after three hard-rocking decades. They’re going to play a farewell tour first, though — 70 shows, with tickets going on sale Friday, starting at $15. Alice Cooper has been slated as the group’s opening act. And when they say final, they mean it: The band even signed a legal contract stating that they’re breaking up, and the last tour is exactly that, the group said during a press conference Tuesday in Hollywood. See the rest here
I just realized that the current lineup of Yes looks like half the cast of The Lord Of The Rings.
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What could make John Petrucci more awesome? Talking about how buff he is, sorta. See the rest here
Last night, I went to see Warbringer, Overkill, and Kreator. Warbringer impressed, but I’m here to tell you that Overkill literally kneed me in the taint. See the rest here
HEY GUYS.
Authorities working to account for the tens of thousands of people missing in wake of Typhoon Haiyan are also facing the challenge of getting desperately needed aid into a region devastated by one of the most powerful storms in history. See the rest here
So, in anticipation of the most eagerly awaited release of the year, Surgical Steel, I decided to award the mighty Carcass the honors this week. While I have heard Necroticism and Heartwork so often they are imprinted in my DNA, I have only heard Symphonies of Sickness once or twice, and have actually never listened to Reek of Putrefaction in its entirety. See the rest here
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