Articles by Kendall Shields

Damn 13

Black Heart Northern Soul

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2005

The dark skulls, black spades, violet roses, green flames, and symmetrical snakes that constitute Black Heart Northern Soul’s album art tel...

Losing Sun

Inertia

PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2005

Losing Sun eschew the nu-metal banality of the recent past in favour of the way-back sounds of Alice in Chains and early Soundgarden, with...

Garfield and Friends Volume Three

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

In volume three of CBS's 1987 to 1994 Saturday morning mainstay, Garfield and Friends, naps are taken, Lasagne is eaten and sunspots are av...

Twisted Sister

Live at Wacken

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

If you thought you'd heard the last of Twisted Sister when they disbanded to the chagrin of nobody at all in October 1987, you were dead wr...

Motörhead

Ace of Spades

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

"After the bomb goes off," Deviants front-man and rock critic Mick Farren laughs, "there'll be rats, roaches, Keith Richards, Lemmy and Cou...

Brand New Sin

Recipe for Disaster

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

It’s been said that Brand New Sin encapsulates everything that is right about hard rock. If everything right in hard rock equates to vocals...

CKY

An Answer Can Be Found

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

In a potentially historic communiqué, CKY guitarist Chad Ginsburg deemed the pre-CKY generation the "Generation Overdone” and announced CKY...

Duke

My Kung Fu is Good

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

On his debut solo record, the Duke, aka Rich Ward, leaves behind the critically acclaimed rap/nü-metal of his Atlanta-based Stuck Mojo outf...