Kreator, Celtic Frost, Voivod…. ah hell, we'll just listen to those bands anyway.

Metal has always been the domain of the weirdly conservative and not too surprising that most metal fans grow up to be modern country fans.

Deafheaven is alright but they're pretty much middle of the road metal-core with shoegaze.

It's just the fancy new insult du jour for the current crop of arm chair action heros. It's a lot like a yawn. Somebody that impressed them used it and now they're going to use it too. A sincerely doubt these guys intellectualize their porn enough to consider using a term like that on their own.

They also think they're going to survive the zombie apocalypse.

Don't see how it's that outrageous. From the perspective of a teenager in in the year 2000, The Rolling Stones sound like a lot of different things as do The Who, and from there it just depends whose early era you're more familiar with.

What can you expect after a year like 2016?

My pick would have to be "Forever is a long time," a documentary about The Smalls. The Smalls were a bit of oddball mix of country, punk, and metal, that relentlessly toured Canada in the 90s. The documentary was filmed on their reunion tour and is just a lot of nostalgic fun.

It's also well demonstrated that American studios more often than not did not know what American audiences wanted, or simply preferred to the tried and true.

But, how long until she quits?

No one is convincing me that Sarah Palin has ever willingly been more than 5 minutes away from a flush toilet. She just doesn't look like a person who is completely comfortable with roughing it, and her kids don't either.

Aliens makes Alien even more frightening because it makes it very apparent we're complete slaves to our own hubris, and holding out until a group armed soldiers/cops come and clean up the mess isn't going to work.

Hobo With Dalmatian avenges a town that lost all its fire hydrants in a corrupt poker game.

The irony is that everyone seems to be criticising this "fun" feature for not recognizing that Sublime makes "fun" songs, not to mention the rather subjective suggestions that they should just pick songs that other people hate.

But we can feel safe with the knowledge that Mark Magrath works in TV now. "Sublime cover band!" is still a legitimate headline for venues all over north America.

Trouble is you start getting more and more subjective when you start talking about the finer points of production or composition. Even worse, you'd be limiting yourself to a small group of experts who probably aren't interested in criticizing the work of others.

There's pointless lyrics, and there's pointless lyrics that try to sound profound.

Sublime does attract the typical 'go big or go home' type that hasn't grown beyond the high school party existence. I knew someone who intensely bought into the idea of "40z to freedom" being some kind of remarkable statement. The addition of cod reggae must have been overwhelming to the senses.

Punk: a bunch of stupid rules, uniforms, and editorial oversight applied to the rebellion against stupid rules, uniforms, and editorial oversight.

Nah, Dr. Who