Subject: Metallica

• Drenched in Blog: Nick Cave Digs Lazarus

  December 26, 2007

• EchoBrain

  May 23, 2002

• 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

• Aftermath: Metallica at Toyota Center

  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 that you have seven different Pantera shirts which you alternate on Tuesdays, but never on Wednesdays because that was the day of the week that Dimebag was shot. And all of this is not for naught. Fando

  November 21, 2008

• November 2008 in Photos

  Over the past few weeks, we've seen the National, Usher, Baby Bash, Metallica, Madonna and Willie Nelson, not to mention voting, posing, drawing, partying, bikinis and face paint. And now you can see it all in one place. Yep, it's that time of the month.   -- Keith Plocek

  November 26, 2008

• Metalocalypse: Baroness and the Southern Metal Renaissance

  Baroness, "Wanderlust," 2007 In the same way that Houston rarely inspires photos of snow flurries, people tend not to associate heavy metal with the South. But, if you look hard enough, you'll find a rich history of hard music with roots planted firmly in Southern soil. In the '80s and early '90s, Louisiana produced sludge-metal bands such as Crowbar, Acid Bath and Down. Currently, Austin's retro-metal The Sword is gaining national attention by opening for Metallica, like they and Down did

  December 16, 2008

• Top Ten Metal Albums of 2008

  In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008's been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random strangers in the face. Good thing there were so many awesome records available to serve as a soundtrack for exactly that kind of behavior. The ten discs below are just the tip of a very big, very heavy iceberg. Metal seems to

  December 26, 2008

• The Best Videos of 2008, Part 2

  5. Killer Mike feat. Ice Cube, "Pressure" 4. Weezer, "Pork and Beans" 3. Justice, "Stress" (above) 2. Hayes Carll, "She Left Me for Jesus" And the best video of 2008 is... 

  January 1, 2009

• Craiged In Blog: My Year in Concerts

  Metallica, Toyota Center, November 20: When Death Magnetic came out in September during Hurricane Ike, initially I dismissed it as I was knee-deep still in the new Black Keys and Beck albums and fence rubble. But somewhere along the line I picked this up again and destroyed my car stereo speakers. The show was one of those magical metal things that only metal-heads can truly fathom. And seeing as I end up going to most of those, I'm hard to impress. But seeing the interplay between the bandmat

  January 2, 2009

• Crit Picks

  August 4, 1994

• Rotation

  July 18, 1996

• Corrosive Talent

  April 24, 1997

• Rotation

  December 18, 1997

• Temper, Temper

  August 13, 1998

• Rotation

  December 3, 1998

• The Fearless Critic Does SXSW

  Although South by Southwest doesn't take place in Houston, you wouldn't know it from all the hoopla that goes on here in the days and weeks leading up to the festival. And because plenty of Houstonians will be making the trek to Mecca Austin to see their favorite bands play bands that record labels want to force down your throat for mercifully short sets and -- of course, see Metallica play at Stubbs -- you should at least eat good food while you're there. For that, you can turn t

  March 13, 2009

• Moments the Grammy Awards Would Rather Forget

  February 5, 2009

• The Year in Albums

  December 25, 2008

• Metallica's Death Magnetic

  Fade to Plastic via Guitar Hero III

  November 13, 2008

• Music to Shuffle Off This Mortal Coil

  October 30, 2008

• Metallica: Death Magnetic

  September 25, 2008

• System of a Down

  Steal This Album (Sony)

  January 16, 2003

• Grumpy Old Men

  Metallica returns with the most anticipated metal album in ages

  June 19, 2003

• Green Jellÿ

  July 24, 2008

• Enter Pissman

  A local musician/DJ tries to give a rock star a golden shower

  February 23, 2006

• Harptallica

  October 4, 2007

• Stove Blow

  Locals lean on video games for instrumental inspiration

  September 27, 2007

• They're Burning Up

  February 2, 2006

• Gold Metal

  April 13, 2006

• Stupid Baby Names

  Metallica Jones

  April 26, 2007

• Honor Bound

  A fictional look at the future of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

  January 18, 2007

• Radical Chick

  You can't tell Natalie Maines to Shut Up & Sing

  November 9, 2006

• Tech? No!

  An imaginary history of electronic music

  October 12, 2006

• Fahrenheit 2004

  Remembering the movies that heated up cinemas this year

  December 23, 2004

• Playbill

  December 2, 2004

• Some Kind of Slugger

  The rock and roll life of Jeff Bagwell

  September 16, 2004

• Head Trip

  Between hard rock and a safe place, Metallica finds itself

  July 29, 2004

• Stayin' Alive

  The hopes of a dying genre chill in Linkin Park

  February 26, 2004

• Letters

  July 17, 2003

• 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

• Direct to Video

  When the concert season cools down, warm up with the latest rock and metal DVDs

  February 13, 2003

• New Bands from Old

  Or "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Ignore Audioslave"

  January 30, 2003

• Minibill

  Thrice

  August 16, 2001

• Breakin' Up the Bands

  May 25, 2000

• Going Viral

  May 14, 2009

• Anvil! The Story of Anvil

  May 21, 2009

• HPMA: We Have Some Winners: Geoffrey Muller, D.R.U.M., Speakerboxx, Wild Moccasins, Los Pistoleros

  Chris Gray​Groovy, groovy acoustic reggae from Ryan Scroggins & the Trenchtown Texans, featuring Sideshow Tramps' Geoffrey Muller, plus Pat Kelly banging on a couple of 4X4s. Singing about people watching "that old devil box." We guess if they're watching on Channel 39, it's OK. For tonight.So far, our host Johnny Bravo of Jack FM gets a conditional fail for trying a little too hard to be funny. Cool Metallica tee though.Best Miscellaneous Instrument: Geoffrey Muller, Sideshow/Mesmer, for

  July 30, 2009

• He Said She Said: Hot, Sweaty, Angry Workout Songs

  ​When it comes to exercise, men and women don't have many different reasons for doing it. Mainly, both genders want to look better naked if perchance they find themselves without clothes on around a stranger they want to sleep with. Life expectancy, general health, and mental well-being are all secondary to looking hotter for your mate or potential slutty karaoke night hook-up. That being said, most guys forgo the treadmill for free weights and the uneasy comaraderie between you and other dude

  August 27, 2009

• ACL 2009 Day One: Kings Of Leon Rage Against The Fame

  Photos by Mark C. Austin​Funny thing happened last night. It was the same thing that happened to U2 in 1987 in the wake of The Joshua Tree, and the same thing that killed Kurt Cobain in 1994. Fame has finally overtaken Kings Of Leon, leaving their core boots 'n flannel crowd in the proverbial pop culture dust. The even funnier thing is that KOL seems to see and are raging against it. It's not a bad thing when a band gets huge and finds themselves surrounded by new fans. Those are the things t

  October 3, 2009

• Oh, Lord: Bands Who Thought It Was a Good Idea to Cover Music From Star Wars

  If naming your band after a Star Wars character isn't enough nerd cachet, just try writing music referencing the film series or covering music from the canon of work surrounding it. Anyone SW fan worth his or her (mainly his, because dudes are more apt to be nerds) should be able to bang out an ode to stormtroopers or the Force. Yes, the Force is capitalized because it is a valid religion in some circles. We tracked down a handful of songs encompassing all facets of the Star Wars experience, fr

  October 21, 2009