Almost all revolutions begin with the idea that what you have known is wrong, and an alternative exists that although unproven will bring about a better world. The hangup is the word “better” — does it mean pragmatically (short term) better, realistically (long term) better, morally better, more profitable, more individualistic — and this detail bedevils the most adventurous of plans.
35 CommentsTags: blasphemy, censorship, Nihilism, obscenity, sodomy
Bubba’s Texas Burger Shack
5230 Westpark Dr, Houston, TX 77056
(713) 661-1622
www.bubbastexasburgershack.com
A band in town wanted to visit this place so, after a brief consultation with MapQuest, we were on our way, and found an old-school Texas eatery: a trailer converted into a kitchen, bathrooms, and standing area with picnic tables around it for people to enjoy their burgers, fries, and onion rings.
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In the early days of death metal, some contributions got overlooked because people were more interested in what was developing at the time. For example, brutal death metal overshadowed a lot of other bands, and when the audience caught up with American death metal, much European death metal got overlooked.
11 CommentsTags: cadaver, death metal, Earache
Time comes like waves, and your wave bounces off the shore and then heads out to sea while others follow it. You stay on your path, but now there are many more paths, and they may coincide with yours briefly, but you have to pursue your destiny, which is what the underground has done as metal bloats around it.
46 CommentsTags: adversary, bob burns, cursed productions, death metal, ed finkler, jack botos, jules seifert, metal curse, ray miller
This year, Record Store Day falls on Saturday, April 12. For those paying attention, that is tomorrow.
16 CommentsTags: cactus records, houston, houston record stores, record store day, record stores, sound exchange, sound waves, stig's lagoon, vinal edge
Life philosophies differ across the Bell Curve. In the middle, where the big bucks are, people want to avoid unpleasant thoughts about their status in the world; on either end, people know that their role is not what most idealize and, as a result, have accepted their limitations (left) or duties (right).
57 CommentsTags: censorship, fisting, free speech, say FUCK for FREEDOM, smr
This site started from a number of text files designed to promote quality metal over commercialism, the process of dumbing down art so that it can have a wider audience along the Bell Curve, and grew to resist assimilation, or the absorption of metal back into rock ‘n roll as a flavor instead of a genre on its own.
10 CommentsTags: assimilation, commercialism, punk, rock 'n' roll, slayer, Speed Metal
Part of the fun of being a metal historian, as writers about metal tend to become looking back at the evolution of the art form, is to pick apart threads of history and then look where they converge. These points are horizons, and in each are many paths, some still unexplored.
36 CommentsTags: black sabbath, cream, Heavy Metal, jethro tull, king crimson, proto-metal, the stooges, tony iommi
In the early days of death metal, when it was a hybrid of heavy metal and hardcore punk, it was widely viewed as technically incompetent especially by the jazz, rock, blues, and emo punk audience that was dominating record stores at the time. A few death metal bands set out to prove them all wrong, including Sadist, who kindly agreed to an interview for our readers, many of whom are Sadist fans.
257 CommentsTags: death metal, interview, Progressive Death Metal, progressive rock, sadist
