Elliot Easton's work is completely underrated. Even the little licks he throws in "Moving in Stereo" are awesome.

Van Halen? Ozzy Osbourne (Randy Rhoads years)? Although not lyrically strong, their musical innovation is pretty obvious.

There is no question that grunge allowed certain mediocre bands (Candlebox, Seven Mary Three, Collective Soul come to mind) to attain modicums of success. This isn't surprising nor should the grunge pantheon be questioned because of it. The popularity of "Cumbersome" doesn't diminish the power and talent of Pearl Jam,…

“Grunge became an evolutionary dead end. It stood for nothing and was built on nothing, and that ethos of negation was all it was about.” This statement, the article’s thesis, means nothing and is built on nothing.

Even without Carpenter's direction and the beautiful Carpenter/Cundey
visuals, "Halloween's" underlying theme is terrifying. Simply, that
(1) there is no explaining or understanding evil; and (2) evil can be
everywhere. "Halloween" terrifies because it does not explain why a
six-year old, living in the heart of…

Although many critics of slasher movies rightly focus on the "virginal" heroine and "stabbing" serial killer as rather obvious sex metaphors, Carpenter and Hill have adamantly denied that such a subtext was intended in "Halloween." Therefore, I wouldn't equate too much meaning into the weapons Laurie uses against…

No, it is The Thing, Prince of Darkness, and In the Mouth of Madness. Confirmed by the two prominent Carpenter writers, Cumbow and Muir.

John Carpenter at his best
PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1987). Although HALLOWEEN and THE THING are considered classics, the 2nd movie in the Apocalypse Trilogy (THE THING, PRINCE OF DARKNESS, IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS) seems unfairly cast-aside. Excepting a few out-of-place attempts at humor and a nod to Alice Cooper's stage…