You’ve read histories of black metal before, but here’s the nerdier version.
All in Essays
You’ve read histories of black metal before, but here’s the nerdier version.
What if I told you boogeyman music was just the beginning for boogeymen?
I did it, so you won’t have to. Here’s the gist on their conflicts
Metal as a musical genre started in 1970, but metal as a way of life and a philosophy started right there.
If all ofther metal genres have Ozzy Osbourne for grandfather, power metal’s resident elder is Ronnie James Dio.
Just a quiet talk between blossoming bros.
The Sunset Strip is a strange blip in metal history, but it’s not quite unconnected.
In the beginning, there was Lemmy. For real, this time.
That song (and its video) are as haunting today as they were in 1991.
The short answer is no, but it’s complicated.
NWOBHM is another thing that kind of happen, but not really.
He was more relatable than any other writer, so that's why he became the idea of what a writer should be like.
That was the most emotional beating I’ve ever seen.
An apocryphal crash course in Black Sabbath and why they’re so foundational to metal history.
Where I explain why the protagonist of Peaky Blinders is not just a sigma male.
Television is better than ever, but it lost its purity of intent
I've read over a thousand books in my life, but less than 10 actually changed it.
You don't have to be a master to make people feel. You just have to feel too.
