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Decibel Magazine
''Decibel'' is a monthly heavy metal magazine published by the Philadelphia-based Red Flag Media since September 2004. It is currently the only monthly metal music magazine published in North America. Its sections include Upfront, Features, Reviews, Guest Columns and the Decibel Hall of Fame. The magazine's tag-line is currently "Extremely Extreme" (previously "The New Noise"); the editor-in-chief is Albert Mudrian. History ''Decibel'' was first conceived in late 2003 by journalist Albert Mudrian (born 1975), around the time he was finishing his book '' Choosing Death: The Improbable History of Death Metal & Grindcore'' (2004). Mudrian had previously written in a number of magazines published by the Philadelphia-based Red Flag Media, who he joined in 1997, and felt that there was "a market in the United States for a metal magazine that covered extreme music the way that magazines like '' Spin'' used to cover pop music and culture". He brainstormed some ideas for the magazine, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Converge (band)
Converge is an American metalcore band formed by vocalist and artist Jacob Bannon and guitarist and producer Kurt Ballou in Salem, Massachusetts in 1990. While recording their landmark fourth album ''Jane Doe (album), Jane Doe'' in 2001, the group became a four-piece with the departure of guitarist Aaron Dalbec and the addition of bassist Nate Newton (musician), Nate Newton and drummer Ben Koller. This lineup has remained intact since. The members have also been involved in various side-projects and collaborations, including the bands Supermachiner (Bannon), Old Man Gloom (Newton), and Mutoid Man (Koller). With their extremely aggressive and boundary-pushing sound, rooted in hardcore and heavy metal music, heavy metal, they are pioneers of metalcore and its subgenre mathcore. Converge rose to prominence with ''Jane Doe'', which was ranked the best album of 2001 by Terrorizer (magazine), ''Terrorizer'', the best album of the decade by Sputnikmusic, and later the 61st-best metal a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooklyn Bowl
Brooklyn Bowl is a music venue, bowling alley and restaurant in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Founded in 2009, it is located in the former Hecla Iron Works Building at 61 Wythe Avenue. It is known for its high-tech green construction and variety of musical acts. In 2013 Rolling Stone named Brooklyn Bowl the 20th best music club in the United States. There are additional locations in Las Vegas, Nashville, and Philadelphia. Hecla Iron Works Building The building was home to Hecla Iron Works, founded in 1876 by Scandinavians Neils Poulson (1843-1911) and Charles Eger (1843-1916). It was named after an active volcano in Iceland, Mount Hekla. By 1889 the works had grown to a large complex taking up most of a city block. Following two fires, Poulson, who had a background in architecture and engineering, began experimenting with fire-proof design. The replacement building was innovative, combining non-combustible brick, plaster and iron in a single foundry stru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Metal
Death metal is an extreme metal, extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking; deep death growl, growling vocals; aggressive, powerful drumming, featuring double kick and blast beat techniques; minor keys or atonality; abrupt tempo, key, and time signature changes; and Chromatic scale, chromatic chord progressions. The lyrical themes of death metal may include slasher film-style violence,Moynihan, Michael, and Dirik Søderlind (1998). Lords of Chaos (2nd ed.). Feral House. , p. 27 political conflict, religion, nature, philosophy, true crime and science fiction. Building from the musical structure of thrash metal and Black metal#First wave, early black metal, death metal emerged during the mid-1980s. Bands such as Venom (band), Venom, Celtic Frost, Slayer, and Kreator were important influences on the genre's creation. Possessed (band), Possessed, Death (metal ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Clean Singing
''No Clean Singing'' is an American heavy metal news and media website based in Seattle. The website primarily covers extreme music, and "bands with vocalists who exclusively scream, growl, or otherwise avoid melodic, 'traditional' singing". Islander is the site's owner. ''No Clean Singing'' features news, album reviews, interviews, and event calendars. Unlike most heavy metal websites, it does not publish negative reviews. Islander has said that when he launched the website, he vowed that he would "write about music I liked and wanted to recommend, rather than pretend to be some kind of critic .. ndto support music I enjoyed rather than tell people what they shouldn't listen to or make fun of bands." History ''No Clean Singing'' was founded in November 2009 by Islander, Alexis, and IntoTheDarkness. The site was named in reference to Islander's dislike of Myke Terry, then-vocalist of Bury Your Dead, feeling his use of clean vocals (in contrast to previous vocalist Mat Bruso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flexi Disc
The flexi disc (also known as a phonosheet, Sonosheet or Soundsheet, a trademark) is a phonograph record made of a thin, flexible vinyl sheet with a molded-in spiral stylus groove, and is designed to be playable on a normal phonograph turntable. Flexible records were commercially introduced as the Eva-tone Soundsheet in 1962. They were very popular among children and teenagers and mass-produced by the state publisher in the Soviet government. History Before the advent of the compact disc, flexi discs were sometimes used as a means to include sound with printed material such as magazines and music instruction books. A flexi disc could be moulded with speech or music and bound into the text with a perforated seam, at very little cost and without any requirement for a hard binding. One problem with using the thinner vinyl was that the stylus's weight, combined with the flexi disc's low mass, would sometimes cause the disc to stop spinning on the turntable and become held in place by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Onion
''The Onion'' is an American digital media company and newspaper organization that publishes satirical articles on international, national, and local news. The company is currently based in Chicago, but originated as a weekly print publication on August 29, 1988, in Madison, Wisconsin. ''The Onion'' began publishing online in early 1996. In 2007, they began publishing satirical news audio and video online as the '' Onion News Network''. In 2013, ''The Onion'' stopped publishing its print edition and launched Onion Labs, an advertising agency. ''The Onion'' was then acquired three times, first by Univision in 2016, which later merged ''The Onion'' and its several other publications into those of Gizmodo Media Group. This unit was sold in 2019 to Great Hill Partners, forming a new company named G/O Media. Then, in April 2024, G/O Media sold ''The Onion'' to Global Tetrahedron, a firm newly created by former Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson, which revived the print edition in August that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The A
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun '' the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transilvanian Hunger
''Transilvanian Hunger'' is the fourth studio album by Norwegian black metal band Darkthrone. It was released 17 February 1994 by Peaceville Records. It is the third and final album of what is dubbed the band's "Unholy Trinity", along with ''A Blaze in the Northern Sky'' and '' Under a Funeral Moon''. Recording ''Transilvanian Hunger'' was the first Darkthrone album to be recorded as a duo (Nocturno Culto and Fenriz), which was a direct result of Zephyrous's departure from the band the previous year. Fenriz performed all instrumentation on the album, with Nocturno Culto adding vocals. As of 2024, this and ''Panzerfaust'' have been the only Darkthrone albums with this type of arrangement (although Fenriz also performs spoken word vocals on the ''Panzerfaust'' outro). ''Transilvanian Hunger'' was recorded on a 4-track recorder set up in Fenriz's bedroom (dubbed "Necrohell Studios" by the band). Lyrics for four of the album's songs were written by the Norwegian black metal music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darkthrone
Darkthrone is a Norwegian black metal band hailing from Kolbotn, Akershus. Formed in 1986 as a death metal band named Black Death, in 1991, Darkthrone transitioned to a black metal style influenced by Bathory (band), Bathory and Celtic Frost and emerged as one of the leading bands in the Early Norwegian black metal scene, Norwegian black metal scene. Their first three black metal albums — ''A Blaze in the Northern Sky'' (1992), ''Under a Funeral Moon'' (1993), and ''Transilvanian Hunger'' (1994) — are frequently referred to as the "Unholy Trinity." These albums are regarded as the epitome of the band's career and among the most influential releases in the black metal genre. Darkthrone has been a duo consisting of Fenriz and Nocturno Culto since guitarist Ivar Enger, Zephyrous departed from the band in 1993. While they have aimed to remain outside the mainstream music scene, in recent years they have collaborated with the National Library of Norway for exhibitions focused on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Da Capo Press
Da Capo Press is an American publishing company with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts. It is now an imprint of Hachette Books. History Founded in 1964 as a publisher of music books, as a division of Plenum Publishers, it had additional offices in New York City, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Emeryville, California. The year prior, Da Capo Press had net sales of over $2.5 million. Da Capo Press became a general trade publisher in the mid-1970s. The name "Da Capo" is an Italian musical term that means "from the beginning," often used in sheet music to indicate that a piece should be repeated from the start. It was sold to the Perseus Books Group in 1999 after Plenum was sold to Wolters Kluwer. In the last decade, its production has consisted of mostly nonfiction titles, both hardcover and paperback, focusing on history, music, the performing arts, sports, and popular culture. In 2003, Lifelong Books was founded as a health and wellness imprint. When Marlowe & Company became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Austin Chronicle
''The Austin Chronicle'' is an alternative weekly newspaper published every Thursday in Austin, Texas, United States. The paper is distributed through free news-stands, often at local eateries or coffee houses frequented by its targeted demographic. In 2001, the newspaper reported a weekly readership of 545,500. It is part of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia and it emulates the typical publications of the 1960s counterculture movement. History The ''Chronicle'' was co-founded in 1981 by Nick Barbaro and Louis Black, with assistance from others who largely met through the graduate film studies program at the University of Texas at Austin. Barbaro and Black are also co-founders of the South by Southwest Festival, although the festival operates as a separate company. The paper initially was published bi-weekly, and later weekly. Its precursor in style and format was the ''Austin Sun'', a bi-weekly that had ceased operations in 1978, after four years of publication. The fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krieg (band)
Krieg (German for "War") is an American black metal band from Somers Point, New Jersey, founded by Neill Jameson. Biography The band formed in 1995, initially as Imperial,Chris Mitchell''Interview with Krieg'' May 8, 2004, accessed on April 7, 2013. changing name to Krieg in 1997 to avoid confusion with other bands named Imperial. Krieg released their début album '' Rise of the Imperial Hordes'' in 1998 and also recorded a second studio album called '' Sono Lo Scherno'', which was not released at the time. Some of the tracks were used on the split with Kult ov Azazel and the compilation ''The Black Plague''.Ryan Harding''LORD IMPERIAL 2002 Interview'' 2002, accessed on April 7, 2013. In 2001, Krieg played with Godless North and Inquisition on the North American Black Metal Invasion tour through Germany, where they were supported by the German band Secrets of the Moon. At Krieg's show at Die Festung in Bitterfeld on December 8, 2001, Imperial dedicated his set to Kanwulf of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
