Subject: Pantera

• Drenched In Blog: Avenged Sevenfold and Right-Wing Screamo Metal

  October 30, 2007

• Faceless

  Universal (Republic)

  May 8, 2003

• Playbill

  August 5, 2004

• 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

• Rotation

  April 7, 1994

• Live Shots

  August 11, 1994

• Live Shots

  November 3, 1994

• Metalocalypse: Texas Hippie Coalition

  Denison-based Texas Hippie Coalition, or THC to fans, lays claim to the title "Kings of Red Dirt Metal," and will more than likely rock you the eff out. These guys feel like Pantera meets Lynyrd Skynyrd, so horns most definitely up. (Plus, the drummer goes by "Cowboy.") Lead singer Big Daddy Rich recently spoke with Metalocalypse about the Man in Black, horror movies and whether or not the abbreviation of the band's name is a coincidence. See if you can guess. Metalocalypse: When wa

  January 12, 2009

• Rotation

  January 11, 1996

• State-of-the-Art Ghouls

  February 15, 1996

• Straight Forward

  July 11, 1996

• Getting a Grip

  October 9, 1997

• In The Dark

  January 21, 1999

• Dallas Domination

  The Metroplex schools Houston when it comes to the indie scene

  November 22, 2001

• Hellyeah

  Hellyeah

  June 7, 2007

• Jason Ward's Matagorda Island Discs

  June 12, 2008

• Lamb of God

  December 6, 2007

• Otep, Hellyeah

  November 22, 2007

• Down

  November 8, 2007

• Tonk Blokes And the Mean Streets Of Da R.O.

  Ten things I read about Houston on Urbandictionary.com, the Wikipedia of the hood

  September 20, 2007

• Baby, You're a Star

  Simpleton is Houston's best hope for the next big thing

  August 8, 2002

• David Allan Coe

  Thursday, August 24, at the Meridian, 1503 Chartres, 713-225-1717

  August 24, 2006

• Throwdown

  Tuesday, August 22, at Warehouse Live, 813 St. Emanuel, 713-225-5483

  August 17, 2006

• Rebel with a Cause

  Dimebag lives on in these new recordings

  June 1, 2006

• Can't Touch the MMMBop

  A new boxed set excavates the '90s

  August 4, 2005

• The Show Band that Wouldn't Die

  Three things you didn't know about Vince Vance and the Valiants

  June 30, 2005

• Soilwork and Dark Tranquility, with Hypocrisy and Mnemic

  Wednesday, April 20, at the Engine Room, 1515 Pease, 713-654-7846.

  April 14, 2005

• Yin and Yang

  The killing of Dimebag Darrell rains on Michael Haaga's Continental Club Plus and Minus Show parade

  December 16, 2004

• Superjoint Ritual

  Saturday, August 16

  August 14, 2003

• Northside Rumble

  Hollister Fracus prepares to invade the Inner Loop

  June 5, 2003

• Rock No More

  Mike Patton chops through traditional song forms with a mighty Tomahawk

  May 29, 2003

• The Power of 12

  Arthur Yoria and Matt Maloney launch a new local label with a roster of one

  May 15, 2003

• Direct to Video

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

  February 13, 2003

• Superjoint Ritual

  Saturday, June 29

  June 27, 2002

• Slayer

  Wednesday, February 6

  January 31, 2002

• Texas Thunder

  Stay true to Pantera. They're true to you.

  March 22, 2001

• Godsmack

  Awake (Universal Records)

  November 23, 2000

• Korn-ucopia

  Retinkered Machine Head apes current metal sounds

  January 20, 2000

• Just Bitchin'

  7 Year Bitch does it faster and harder

  September 29, 1994

• Picks

  December 2, 1993

• Rocks Off Checks Out Corpus Christi

  Photos by Craig Hlavaty This past weekend, Rocks Off took a respite from sweltering H-Town to visit family in our equallly sweltering, ball-sweat-inducing neighbor to the south. Corpus Christi is rather small compared the teeming ant farm we have here, topping just over a quarter of a million beachified and sunburned folks. Rocks Off has been coming to "The Sparkling City by the Sea" to visit his grandparents and burn layers off his skin since he was born. Over the past decade or so, Corpus has

  June 22, 2009

• R.I.P. Frankie Cooper of Grave Robbers

  [Update: Rocks Off has learned Cooper had a congenital defect that enlarged his heart. See the comments section for information on the July 10 memorial show at Walter's on Washington.] Word has come through the Houston music world that we have lost yet another young musician. Details are very few and far between but we have learned that guitarist Frankie Cooper of Houston horrorcore giants Grave Robbers passed away last week. He was 23 years old. Formed almost four years ago, Grave Robbers have

  June 30, 2009

• Hell on Earth

  July 16, 2009

• Straight from the Sole: Houston's Best Metal Bands

  You know Soledad. He's the vocalist from controversial Houston rap-metal act Daylight Coma. He's got a lot to say. Sometimes it's insightful, sometimes less so, but it's almost always said with conviction. This week, in honor of the fast-approaching HPMA, we asked him who he thinks are Houston's five best metal bands. Rocks Off: The Houston Press Music Awards are right around the corner. You being you, how about if you give us the five best metal bands in town? Surely no one will have a proble

  July 16, 2009

• He Said She Said: Songs for Getting It On, Part 2

  [Ed. Note: Here's Web Editor Katharine Shilcutt's top 10 picks for baby-makin' music. Now it's the boys' turn.] 1. Ryan Adams, "Come Pick Me Up": This has to work, because it shows vulnerability and warmth. It tells her you are the kind of guy who will be the one to get out of bed to get the Wet Ones or the dry towel. 2. Sam Cooke "Cupid": Chicks dig smooth-ass vocals, and it's got that deep sense of longing and just the right hint of dementia that comes with true love. Seriously, the song is a

  July 24, 2009

• HPMA Aftermath: Ozeal & the Eulypians, Nosaprise, Benjamin Wesley, Tha Fucking Transmissions, Kristine Mills, Peekaboo Theory, Versecity and Spain Colored Orange

  Chris Gray​Five hours is not a long time. It is if you're driving from Houston to Texarkana or Uvalde, maybe. But when hopscotching all over downtown trying to take in as much of the Houston Press Music Awards showcase as you can until your feet and your ears cry uncle, those 300 minutes go by in a heartbeat. But every once in a while, in the words of Bob Dylan, "the next 60 seconds can seem like an eternity." Those fleeting moments are the keepers, and tops on the list Sunday was Ozeal &

  July 27, 2009

• Five Hour Energy

  July 30, 2009

• He Said She Said: A Stripper Soundtrack

  Rocks Off has a naked lady fetish. It's shameful to admit. We really like seeing naked chicks. It's been something we have dealt with since we were four years old and started sneaking into the women's dressing room when our Mom would go clothes shopping. It's not so cute today, what with the beard and druid's cloak. Once we got older and were dominated by peer pressure, we found ourselves in some random strip club every few months or so. We soon found that our demanding musical tastes dictated

  July 31, 2009

• Slide Show: Albums That Went Darker

  ​ For most rock acts, the traditional way to deal with success is to rework their lyrics, image and sound to become palatable to a larger audience. Usually this means brightening the subject matter, cleaning up the bad words, softening the sharp edges on those power chords and getting haircuts that cost more than the previous album. This is a process commonly known as "selling out"; however, it doesn't always work that way. Sometimes, for whatever reason, the artist in question becomes angrier

  August 5, 2009

• Ghosts of Washington Avenue

  September 10, 2009