Articles by Keith Carman

Anti-You

Two-Bit Schemes and Cold War Dreams

PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2011

Impeccable releases from two bands may not be enough to start heralding Italy as a new bastion of extreme music, but thanks to both the Sec...

Twisted Sister

Love is for Suckers

PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2011

Initially released in 1987, fifth Twisted Sister outing Love is for Suckers should have been called This Album is for Suckers. Easily their...

Darkest Hour

The Human Romance

PUBLISHED Feb 18, 2011

Hardcore/metal hybrid brigade Darkest Hour have never been afraid to display their influences proudly upon their sweat-stained sleeves. In...

Lemmy

Greg Olliver and Wes Orshoski

PUBLISHED Feb 17, 2011

To the world of rockers, Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister needs about as much introduction as Satan. If you don't know who this handlebar-moustachioed...

Emmure

Speaker of the Dead

PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2011

Three years after third bout Felony made a modest ripple, death metal, squawking electronics and modest hip hop-tinged hardcore outfit Emmu...

Slayer's Jeff Hanneman Hospitalized with Flesh-Eating Disease

PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2011

Medical misfortune has befallen thrash metal progenitors Slayer once again. Guitarist/founding member Jeff Hanneman reportedly underwent em...

Cauldron

Burning Fortune

PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2011

When Cauldron issued debut album Chained to the Nite in 2009, the NWOBHM-influenced power trio proved to be keepers of something truly anom...

Eddie Spaghetti

Sundowner

PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2011

It's a harsh reality that over the past decade, Supersuckers frontman Eddie Spaghetti has been doing greater work as a countrified twanger...