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Caught In A Mosh: June 2012
Our July 2007 cover story on Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival at Toyota Park focused on the increasingly limited role of lead guitarists in pop music. Les Paul and Jim Marshall have since...
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Caught In A Mosh: July 2012
Five years ago on the day Nachtmystium signed its original North American publishing deal with Century Media, vocalist/guitarist Blake Judd planned his final escape from black metal. At his then home...
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Caught In A Mosh: August 2012
Listen to enough U.S. talk radio these days, and one could believe he or she lives in the land of a vintage Vince Locke Cannibal Corpse album cover. On a pink Miami highway ramp lie two leaking men:...
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Caught In A Mosh: September 2012
We’ve been on that path for many years,” says a voice seven hours in the future. In Sweden, it is already dark. Ola Lindgren, vocalist/guitarist of Grave, assumes nothing while fielding foreign...
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Caught In A Mosh: October 2012
It never fails. Friends grow up, record stores shutter, liner notes shrink, columnists retire, and servers get hacked. But one tried-and-true way of discovering underground music will always remain:...
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Caught In A Mosh: November 2012
Attempting to make it as a New Yorker and failing carries with it a few stories. Here is a doozy: I once lived next door to an Irish nurse who would drop a bowling ball on the floor after midnight...
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Caught In A Mosh: December 2012
Paul O’Neill is finding it difficult getting into the Christmas spirit this year. The last of his guests arrived last night, and today they’re putting the finishing touches on the annual holiday...
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Caught In A Mosh: January 2013
If heavy metal is a religion (as thousands of people in the latest U.K. census claimed by writing it in as their faith), then who is God? “Bonham is God,” or so claimed a tongue-in-cheek campaign...
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Caught In A Mosh: February 2013
This time last year, I stopped reading the news and started reading the obituaries. I wanted to stay informed and reasoned the Grim Reaper would be a more trustworthy journalist than Arianna...
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Caught In A Mosh: March 2013
For decades, Elk Grove Township was home to the sprawling headquarters of United Airlines and with it a spectacular outdoor swimming pool at the base of a hotel full of 22-year-old flight-attendant...
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Caught In A Mosh: April 2013
Two youths carrying empty bags get off the train in a neighborhood that welcomed them previously with derelict factories and a burned-out shell of a vehicle. Today is worse. Today they can’t see...
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Caught In A Mosh: May 2013
I went to the mall and the record stores were gone. The place where I discovered Integrity sells prom dresses. No System Of A Down at the jeweler. No Slayer. Inside the Hot Topic where I bought...
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Caught In A Mosh: June 2013
With Trouble,” announces doom-metal torchbearer Ron Holzner, “I was just a bass player. Here, I’m the manager, co-writer, arranger, and producer.” The veteran of Trouble’s fleeting major-label ride on...
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Caught In A Mosh: July 2013
Fight Or Flight It’s a few songs into Disturbed‘s headlining set at Uproar Festival, and I can’t help but notice how many people have already left. David Draiman is telling the crowd to salute his...
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Caught In A Mosh: August 2013
Death tends to be permanent, in metal as in life. Once you’re “Festering In The Crypt,” only body snatchers – or frightening white-robed angels, according to one strange tale (Luke 24:1-8) – will set...
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Caught In A Mosh: September 2013
Psalm Of The Sixth Man If the set beginning like a skyscraper imploding for one thrash-metal measure didn’t signal the end of the good vibes at Lollapalooza 1992, then the mob of skinheads running...
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Caught In A Mosh: October 2013
Born From A Dark Poem There’s a photograph floating around the Internet of Joe Ptacek in 1994 that you need to see. It’s a candid shot of the frontman of the one Warren Township death metal band lucky...
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Hunt To Survive Impressionable readers of Michael Moynihan and Didrik Soderlind’s Lords Of Chaos extremo bible will tell you that death metal died when black metal took a torch to the underground and...
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December 2013: Caught In A Mosh
Devil Driver 2013, Dez Fafara (center) Laser-like Focus What is it? – Caught in a Mosh!” That solitary lyric delivered by Anthrax vocalist Joey Belladonna from 1987’s Among The Living album still has a...
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Caught In A Mosh: February 2014
Murmur (photo by Tom Kelly) “It’s only going to get weirder” – Matthias Vogels Vocalist/guitarist Matthias Vogels (pictured, far left) of local experimental black metal quartet Murmur, takes it as a...
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