Some time ago, like… a year or something, Ian asked me and the other metalheads he knew to help him with an experiment: He wanted to learn about heavy metal. Originally it was like thirty albums or something (and he was going to write about it, but I guess that’s not going to happen, the [...]

Yesterday, semi-famous musician Ronnie James Dio died of stomach cancer. I don’t know if you know of him, but he was mostly known for being the guy who took over for Ozzy in Black Sabbath after they kicked him out, and thus the lead singer for all the bad Black Sabbath albums. He also went [...]

The other day I learned about something I never thought I’d have seen in my lifetime: A heavy metal band made out of dinosaurs. That better have fucking got your attention, or I don’t even know who you are. And yet, a band that’s making waves in Finland right now is Hevisaurus, a children’s heavy [...]

Phew, what a week. Between real movie projects, goofy little music videos and today’s  update, I’ve had my head buried so deep in archive.org all my dreams anymore are hygiene filmstrips set to ragtime jazz Christmas music played by cartoon pirates and spark plugs. Hmm… maybe I should’ve kept that to myself. Two weeks ago, volume one [...]

Obviously I’ve been slacking on my New Year’s resolution to review an album a week this year, so in a weird attempt to make up for it this week I figured I’d do something that required a little more effort than usual. Today I’m reviewing not so much an album as a… well, I guess [...]