by Bram Teitelman | Oct 3, 2014 | Current Events, News
London’s Telegraph reports that a Bangladeshi man arrested after he volunteered to go to Syria to fight for ISIS was the singer of a death metal band. Asif Adnan is the singer and guitarist of Bangladesh death metal band Jahiliyyah. The band’s name refers...
by Bram Teitelman | Aug 26, 2014 | Current Events, News, Video
[youtube]http://youtu.be/gwViiRUoYGo[/youtube] OK, as good of a cause as it is, we’re starting to get a little tired of the ALS ice bucket challenge. It’d be insensitive to say that the movement has jumped the shark, since it’s raised millions of...
by Bram Teitelman | Aug 23, 2014 | Current Events, News
While post-metal band Isis broke up four years ago, they’ve been in the news lately. Actually, not the band, but the militant Islamic terrorist group that recently claimed responsibility for beheading American journalist James Foley. And while you might not...
by Bram Teitelman | Jun 6, 2014 | Current Events, Food, News
Guess what day it is? Guess what day it is? If you guessed International Day of Slayer, you’re right. However, it’s also National Doughnut Day. That means a few things: First of all, you can get free doughnuts nationwide if you play your cards right....
by Zach Shaw | Aug 29, 2012 | Current Events, Sad News
And yet again metal is getting attached to a horrific event. This past Monday (August 27), a 15 year-old opened fire in the cafeteria of a suburban Baltimore high school, shooting one classmate and critically wounding another before a teacher stopped the attack. And...
by Bram Teitelman | Aug 8, 2012 | Current Events
When we first mentioned that the shooter from the Wisconsin Sikh temple massacre was in a white power hardcore band, we’d expected that metal might be thrown into the spotlight. What we didn’t expect was for CNN to enter the fray with one of the more...