metal

The Best Operatic Metalheads You'll Ever See

Sarah Prial · 11/30/10 10:31AM

If you thought mellifluous tones and metal didn't mix, you were right. But that doesn't stop Van Canto from trying. Here's their video for "Wishmaster." Click through to see a band rock "didelee-didelee-didelee" with straight faces. Rock on.

That Metal Show Hits the Streets, Goes "Jaywalking"

Chris Wyman · 07/12/10 01:01PM

Don Jamieson and Jim Florentine take That Metal Show to the streets of L.A. to probe cultural literacy. Disgusted by the results, they eventually give up and try to get Don some action instead.

Finnish Kids Rock Out To Dinosaur Metal Band

Elaine Moran · 04/14/10 05:23PM

Hevisaurus is a Finnish Dinosaur Metal band that is a huge hit with the kiddies in Finland. You doubt their love for Dinosaur Metal? Witness them waving inflatable bananas to show how hard they are being rocked. Wait, what?

Saturday Shorts: Heavy Metal Parking Lot

Daniel Barnum-Swett · 04/10/10 02:00PM

Tailgating before a Judas Priest concert, a motley crew of mostly shirtless mid-Atlantic metalheads unites to drink, and yell, and throw the sign of the horns—worshiping the devil music; achieving ecstasy just hanging out.

School Is Hell

Hamilton Nolan · 12/15/09 10:45AM

How academia should be: "'Hideous Gnosis,' a six-hour theory symposium on black-metal music" at a Williamsburg bar last weekend. Talks included "Perpetual Rot: Obsessive Cycles of Deterioration," on "'liminal death-space' in the work of Xasthur." Screw college. [NYT; Related]