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.
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I am Chemical Mange.
R.I.P. Sandor Benczedi.
Rosa GuerreroWelcome Beau Beasley of Homopolice, Heavy Leather Records, etc.
Radar Eyes: You are a Houston music institution and an ultra fan of Leather Ways... State your name and purpose!
Beau Beasley: My name is Beau Beasley. I am fan of leather and terrible music. The on
Satin Hooks "Trinity School Road": Houston's Satin Hooks are a noise-punk band in the same sense that Liar-era Jesus Lizard and Incesticide/Bleach-era Nirvana once were: torture-slurred, aggrevied vocals, gunk-gummed stop-and-start guitars that wanna beat you bloody while sneaking an earworm melody in under all the crunchy grit.
The whole thing's over in just under three minutes, but leaves a lasting impression, from David Gomez's laser-focused, yet somehow imprecise,m drum fills to Lucas Gor
12 Stones, Wake The Light, Saturate, Dine Alone: Wed., Sept. 30. Scout Bar Clear Lake.
Aaron Neville Quintet's Christmas Show: Fri., Dec. 4. House of Blues.
The Accused, Krum Bums, Owl Witch, H.R.A.: Sun., Oct. 11. Walter's on Washington.
AC/DC: Sun., Nov. 8. Toyota Center.
Baroness, Iron Age, Dark Castle: Tue., Dec. 8. Warehouse Live.
Billy Joe Shaver: Fri., Dec. 18. The Firehouse Saloon & Eatery.
Birds Of Avalon, Hell City Kings, Fired For Walking: Fri., Sept. 25. Rudyard's.
Bob Saget:
This week, Friday Night Noise begins an ongoing effort to review a track by each and every one of H-town noise gangster Richard Ramirez's solo or group projects. No, really. Does FNN claim to be a Ramirez authority? Not at all; FNN would need an entire lifetime to track down, ingest, and get familiar with everything this prolific malcontent has had a hand in. So consider this more of a survey course series.
Black Leather Jesus "13/13"Two thirteens? That must mean twice the usual measure of ba
Werewolf Jerusalem "Cruel Kidnapping, Part I"Friday Night Noise wonders: is Mom to blame for our present-day fascination with/lust for noise musics? As a boy, Mom used hydrogen peroxide solution to loosen the wax in FNN's oft-clogged ear canals, and anybody who's been through that - sitting at a table, head on a folded towel, waiting patiently while this over-the-counter drug-store staple is carefully poured into the ear - is familiar with the seemingly infinite crackling, hissing sound the s
Richard Ramirez, "Removal Off...(Live)"
Now this is the sort of noise that plasters a big dumb 'ol smile on Friday Night Noise's normally dour mug. How can you hate this sort of stuff, this all-over-the-place, sliding-around-in-oil roar where the crud flies here and there with absolutely no strategy whatsoever, where a piercing bit of feedback could theoretically turn out to be a perverted scream, but maybe it isn't? Where the artist's aim seems to be to super-soak you with as much distor
