by Bram Teitelman | Jan 9, 2015 | News, Updates
Wondering why it’s taking so long (7 years in September!) for Metallica to release a follow-up to Death Magnetic? In an interview with the “Groove – The No Treble Podcast,” bassist Robert Trujillo gave a handful of excuses reasons why...
by Bram Teitelman | Jan 7, 2015 | Album Covers, News
The ’80s were an amazing time for metal album covers. With Slayer, Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth, and other bands that weren’t the Big 4 putting out albums with artwork as iconic as the music contained beneath them, it was a golden age. In the ’50s...
by Bram Teitelman | Jan 6, 2015 | Instruments, News
On January 6th, 1958, the patent was granted for the Gibson Flying V, changing rock history forever. But upon its debut later that year, the guitar was a failure. According to Gibson, only 81 Flying V’s shipped in 1958, with 17 shipping in 1959. They were then...
by Metal Insider | Dec 19, 2014 | Metal Power Rankings, News
Welcome to Metal Power Rankings: Our weekly rankings take a number of factors into account: newsworthiness, record sales, internet buzz, word of mouth and overall importance in the genre. Ultimately, it’s subjective, but if a band generates enough buzz, they’ll wind...
by Bram Teitelman | Dec 18, 2014 | News
Earlier this year, a data analyst decided to find out who the most literate rapper was by taking the first 35,000 words of artists’ lyrics, figuring out how many unique words they used, and extrapolating that data. It found Aesop Rock the most literate and DMX...