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Posted inMusic

Machine Head can’t seem to shake their checkered past

by Luca Cimarusti February 7, 2020August 18, 2021

The groovy, pummeling riff metal of the early 90s owes a lot to Oakland’s Machine Head. The band made their album debut on Roadrunner in 1994 with Burn My Eyes, just a couple years after Pantera codified the style for mainstream consumption with Vulgar Display of Power. Machine Head cranked out chunky, high-gain riffs over […]

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New music from one-man industrial-metal project Author & Punisher

by Luca Cimarusti May 22, 2015August 18, 2021

The preview to his new Philip Anselmo-produced LP is bigger and meaner than ever.

Screenshot from Chicago Fret Works: A Look Inside by Steve Baker
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In Rotation: Gigan guitarist Eric Hersemann on an album so angry it’s almost silly

by Luca Cimarusti June 2, 2014August 18, 2021

Current obsessions of Reckless Records buyer Dave Hofer, Gigan guitarist Eric Hersemann, and the Reader‘s Luca Cimarusti

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On writing the perfect press release

by Miles Raymer April 6, 2012August 19, 2021

The simple poetry of someone trying to get me to write about Phil Anselmo

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A world without Dime

by Luca Cimarusti December 8, 2011August 19, 2021

Today is the seven-year anniversary of guitarist Dimebag Darrell’s murder.

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