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Subject: Megadeth

  • Metallica for Soccer Moms

    No one else in thrash metal's so-called Original Top 4 (Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax, Metallica) will ever be as a pleasing to the average pop fan’s palate as James Hetfield and pals. Slayer, is well, Slayer. Need we say more? Songs about blood and the Holocaust don’t really move units. The other two are just jovial VH-1 Classic footnotes with multi-colored goatees or regretful ex-heroin addicts who can’t admit failure, or the fact that they were both on the Last Action Hero soundtrack. In

    November 20, 2008
  • Letters

    February 16, 1995
  • Losing the Beat

    December 14, 1995
  • Static

    February 13, 1997
  • Broadcast Power

    April 17, 1997
  • Bang with Brains

    December 18, 1997
  • Rotation

    December 18, 1997
  • Kontroversy

    November 19, 1998
  • The Master Interpreter

    December 10, 1998
  • Toe-Tapping Zapping

    Game soundtracks struggle for legitimacy in an industry obsessed with killing machines, not killer tunes

    July 6, 2000
  • Fallout Shelter

    Nuclear Assault's Danny Lilker detonates a few mushroom clouds

    January 23, 2003
  • Music Deaths

    The Greil Marcus Rock Death Meter returns

    December 27, 2007
  • Lee Hazlewood: Stranger in This Land

    The renaissance cowboy cut a wide swath through the West, and inspired a generation of songwriters

    October 25, 2007
  • Heaven and Hell

    The Heaven and Hell tour stops Wednesday, May 2, at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, 2005 Robbins Dr., 281-363-3300.

    April 26, 2007
  • Bobaflex

    Friday, August 18, at the Engine Room, 1515 Pease, 713-654-7846

    August 17, 2006
  • Stapp Infection

    Sanctimonious hypocrites need love, too

    March 9, 2006
  • Letters

    March 3, 2005
  • Up from the Underworld

    This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music

    December 23, 2004
  • Up from the Underworld

    This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music

    December 23, 2004
  • Playbill

    December 2, 2004
  • Head Trip

    Between hard rock and a safe place, Metallica finds itself

    July 29, 2004
  • O'Doyle Rules

    No Place Else to Go (Self-released)

    July 8, 2004
  • Appetite for Reconstruction

    After hitting the top and then bottoming out, the Hunger refuses to go gently to the graveyard of bands

    February 27, 2003
  • Motivational Motörhead

    Lemmy: Heavy metal's F-bomb-dropping answer to Anthony Robbins

    April 11, 2002
  • He Be Jammin'

    Soulfly's Max Cavalera draws inspiration from a most unlikely source: Bob Marley

    October 26, 2000
  • Show (and Tell) Tunes

    Theatre New West's riveting Fairy Tales depicts the gay life through song

    June 29, 2000
  • Think Small

    Houston rockers Dirty Rotten Imbeciles keep the faith with intimate venues

    March 23, 2000
  • Opening Up His Files

    Texan Vernon Fisher mines his own archives for his rich, multilayered images

    March 2, 2000
  • Indies in Town

    Three adventuresome acts new to Houston set to perform

    February 17, 2000
  • Rusty

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

    December 16, 1999
  • Nice Girls With Guns

    Kingwood High friends say the girls were "Sweet." Adults say "Well-Mannered." Cops say "armed robbers."

    September 16, 1999
  • Hard to Kill

    April 2, 1998
  • MegaStoopid

    January 19, 1995
  • Picks

    December 2, 1993
  • For Rosh Hashanah: Musical Mystery Jews

    There are sure to be many Rosh Hashanah celebrations this weekend, but here at Rocks Off, we'd like to suggest you "think outside the box," as the kids say, and shake up your holiday musical selection by considering a few acts that you might not have realized were composed (in some part, anywway) of the Chosen People. Megadeth As we all know from listening to David Cross, if your mother is Jewish, it's pretty much out of your hands. That takes care of Dave Mustaine, so be sure to have a list

    September 18, 2009
  • Distant Early Warning: 30FootFall, Agnostic Front, Dropkick Murphys, George Thorogood, Joe Ely, Slayer, etc.

    ​30FootFall: Fri., Dec. 25. Fitzgerald's. Agnostic Front, Death By Stereo: Sun., Jan. 24. Walter's on Washington. American Sharks, The Watermarks: Wed., Nov. 25. Boondocks. Band of Heathens: Fri., Dec. 11. Old Quarter Acoustic Cafe. Basses Loaded, Springfield Riots, Nosaprise: Fri., Nov. 27, 8 p.m., $5. Mango's. Bill Maher: Sat., Jan. 30. Cullen Performance Hall. Bryan White: Tue., Jan. 12. Dosey Doe Coffee Company.

    November 17, 2009