by Zach Shaw | Jul 28, 2014 | Columns, Top 5
The San Francisco Bay Area has a rich history of metal music, and Steve “Zetro” Souza has played a major role in it. Before joining Exodus as their singer in 1986, Zetro fronted the band Legacy, who shortly after changed its name to Testament. And in between his...
by Bram Teitelman | Jul 21, 2014 | Columns, Top 5
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. As we write this, Primus drummer Tim Alexander has just successfully underwent triple bypass heart surgery following a heart attack on Friday. An update from the band...
by Metal Insider | Jul 1, 2014 | Columns, Top 5
And just like that, 2014 is half over. Hard to believe it’s gone this fast, right? At any rate, instead of listing our top ten records of the year so far, we thought we’d look back – 30 years back – to celebrate some of the best albums of 1984....
by Metal Insider | Jun 23, 2014 | Columns, Top 5
With last week’s ruling by the U.S. Patent Office to cancel six trademarks of the Washington Redskins, the issue of how Native Americans are being treated by white America has once again become a hot button topic. Some are stating that it’s a case of...
by Metal Insider | Jun 16, 2014 | Columns, Top 5
Andrew W.K. is best known for partying. The self-proclaimed party king recently was given the opportunity to show another side of him through the Village Voice blog with an advice column where people submit their questions and Andrew gives some hard-hitting answers....
by Zach Shaw | Jun 9, 2014 | Columns, Top 5
Tomorrow (June 10), Tombs will release their long awaited new album, Salvage Gold. While mainman Mike Hill loves writing dark, vicious riffs and melodies, he also loves a good and almost unbelievable conspiracy theory. With that in mind, we asked Hill to provide five...