Does anyone know of any of these other bands and if ANY of them might be worth seeing? Agent Steel is an okay (but not particularly brilliant, if you ask me) old-school speed metal band; Acheron is a death / black metal band originally from Florida who badly want to be more evil than Deicide, and a...
... Algis Kizys didn't come into the picture until the Greed / Holy Money eras. And I don't know what disc of Public Castration Is A Good Idea you have, but that album sounds nothing like the Greed and Holy Money albums even though the material is all from those discs. Greed and Holy Money actually...
42 on the outside, 84 on the inside. (Let this be a lesson to you young'uns -- the frivolity and foolishness of your youth will come back to haunt you in your old age, especially if your youth includes massive drug / alcohol consumption and violent acts of stupidity.) Despite my advanced age, I stil...
The Swans catalog can be pretty much divided into three distinct phases: EARLY STUFF -- Everything up through CHILDREN OF GOD. The earliest stuff (not counting the self-titled debut EP, which sounds more like new wave than anything else that follows), like COP, FILTH, and YOUNG GOD, is all slow, cru...
It's interesting to see that they're back, but I doubt it will last long -- look how it all came to a screeching halt in the first place. I actually still like DARKLANDS and AUTOMATIC a lot. I kind of lost interest in them after that, but those are still really good albums, even if they aren't as ov...
Many, many, many years ago, the woman I was living with in college made me go with her to see Stryper at Six Flags Over Texas (we were living in Arlington at the time, I went to school at UTA). This despite the fact that I listened to almost nothing at the time but Slayer, Celtic Frost, Metallica, D...