Heavy Metal

The Year in Albums

Aftermath: Metallica at Toyota Center

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Bring Me the Horizon

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Aftermath: Danzig at House of Blues

Photos by Craig Hlavaty / Click here for more Fandom is a funny thing. It can make the stodgiest businessman a KISS makeup wearing teenager from 1975. It can turn your Mom into a wannabe groupie when she gets a little too close to Steven Tyler. You yourself may wake up one tragic morn and grasp th ... More >>

Aftermath: Valient Thorr and Early Man at Rudyard's

Photos by Craig Hlavaty / Click here for more Fandom is a funny thing. It can make the stodgiest businessman a KISS makeup wearing teenager from 1975. It can turn your Mom into a wannabe groupie when she gets a little too close to Steven Tyler. You yourself may wake up one tragic morn and grasp th ... More >>

L.A. Guns

Photos by Craig Hlavaty / Click here for more Fandom is a funny thing. It can make the stodgiest businessman a KISS makeup wearing teenager from 1975. It can turn your Mom into a wannabe groupie when she gets a little too close to Steven Tyler. You yourself may wake up one tragic morn and grasp th ... More >>

Get Lit: W.A.R.: The Unauthorized Biography of William Axl Rose, by Mick Wall

Photos by Craig Hlavaty / Click here for more Fandom is a funny thing. It can make the stodgiest businessman a KISS makeup wearing teenager from 1975. It can turn your Mom into a wannabe groupie when she gets a little too close to Steven Tyler. You yourself may wake up one tragic morn and grasp th ... More >>

Overheard at SXSW

Photos by Craig Hlavaty / Click here for more Fandom is a funny thing. It can make the stodgiest businessman a KISS makeup wearing teenager from 1975. It can turn your Mom into a wannabe groupie when she gets a little too close to Steven Tyler. You yourself may wake up one tragic morn and grasp th ... More >>

Know Your Idols

Photos by Craig Hlavaty / Click here for more Fandom is a funny thing. It can make the stodgiest businessman a KISS makeup wearing teenager from 1975. It can turn your Mom into a wannabe groupie when she gets a little too close to Steven Tyler. You yourself may wake up one tragic morn and grasp th ... More >>

Get Lit: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath by Joel McIver

Photos by Craig Hlavaty / Click here for more Fandom is a funny thing. It can make the stodgiest businessman a KISS makeup wearing teenager from 1975. It can turn your Mom into a wannabe groupie when she gets a little too close to Steven Tyler. You yourself may wake up one tragic morn and grasp th ... More >>

Drenched in Blog: Nick Cave Digs Lazarus

Photos by Craig Hlavaty / Click here for more Fandom is a funny thing. It can make the stodgiest businessman a KISS makeup wearing teenager from 1975. It can turn your Mom into a wannabe groupie when she gets a little too close to Steven Tyler. You yourself may wake up one tragic morn and grasp th ... More >>

Avenged Sevenfold, Avenged Sevenfold

Photos by Craig Hlavaty / Click here for more Fandom is a funny thing. It can make the stodgiest businessman a KISS makeup wearing teenager from 1975. It can turn your Mom into a wannabe groupie when she gets a little too close to Steven Tyler. You yourself may wake up one tragic morn and grasp th ... More >>

Down

Photos by Craig Hlavaty / Click here for more Fandom is a funny thing. It can make the stodgiest businessman a KISS makeup wearing teenager from 1975. It can turn your Mom into a wannabe groupie when she gets a little too close to Steven Tyler. You yourself may wake up one tragic morn and grasp th ... More >>

Necrophagist

Necrophagist performs Friday, June 8, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717. Arsis, As Blood Runs Black, Beneath the Massacre, Cattle Decapitation, Cephalic, Daath, Faceless and Ion Dissonance also perform.

Houston Rock Scene Woes, Continued

A tri-ologue with three scene vets about selling out, not being true to yourself and rocking too hard

Encore Performance

Don't fret. Guitar Hero II kills the opening act

My Hips Don't Lie...But Mariah Carey's Do!

Shakira vs. Mariah, head-to-blond-head

Brujeria

Sunday, August 6, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717

About a Beast

Ruminations on irony, Maidenhood and fraternity

I Scream, You Scream

Inside the world of death metal's premier vocal coach

Comeback Clips

A music-video renaissance is afoot -- but it's strictly on the download

Children of Bodom

Saturday, December 3, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717.

For Those About to Rock

Guitar Hero cranks rhythm-gaming up to 11

Seat Belts and Eye Shadow

If the Lost Boys can't get young Hispanic males to buckle up, nobody can!

Rock and Roll Bestiary

You already know all about this year's crop of wolf bands. We examine the tiger, bear, shark and lion bands, and offer up a rock zodiac.

Every Time I Die, with the Red Chord

Monday, September 19, at the Engine Room, 1515 Pease, 713-654-7846.

New Angels in Rock Heaven

Scoring the grim reaper's 2004 harvest

Some Kind of Slugger

The rock and roll life of Jeff Bagwell

Playbill

The rock and roll life of Jeff Bagwell

Burning Down the House

Bowfire shows off its hot hands at Hobby

Too Hot for Love

The Donnas out-Crüe the Crüe with a new spin on the old sex-and-excess glam formula

David Lee's Froth

Diamond Dave rants on fashion, being a digital gigolo, his rival/tourmate Sammy Hagar, a pending lawsuit and a bunch of other stuff

Merry Mayhem Tour

Friday, November 9

Played Out

The filmmakers have consumed all the standard clichés and yakked them up in the humorless Rock Star

Party On, Dude

The Me Generation hasn't stopped believin' in its own soundtrack

Godsmack

Awake (Universal Records)

King Diamond

Early recruiter of headbangers

Debt Releaf

Cigarette companies get crafty

Dready Metal

Unlike their North American counterparts, Jamaican rappers are incorporating heavy metal into their material, with some amazing results

Six Strings Under

Unlike many of his rock guitar god peers, Joe Satriani has yet to flee to audiences overseas

Amplified

Back in Black

Indies in Town

Three adventuresome acts new to Houston set to perform

Rotation

Mudhoney March to Fuzz

Korn-ucopia

Retinkered Machine Head apes current metal sounds

Rusty

Remember when Megadeth used to be the fastest, most talented metal band around?

Metal Manifesto

Rage Against the Machine preaches anticapitalism, sells millions of records

Time of Arrival

After two years, Houston's demonseeds are ready for the public ear

Hard to Kill

After two years, Houston's demonseeds are ready for the public ear

MegaStoopid

After two years, Houston's demonseeds are ready for the public ear

Press Picks

After two years, Houston's demonseeds are ready for the public ear