Sadistic Metal Reviews: End of Hippies and White Picket Fences Edition

Death metal thrived from 1985 to 1994. The early material of the proto-underground nature — Sodom, Master, Possessed, Bathory, Hellhammer, Slayer — solidified its metal/hardcore roots into something much more expressive by 1985, and then it was simply a matter of creating the classics.

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Bubba’s Texas Burger Shack


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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Interview with Adversary (2025)

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.

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