What do you think they should sound like?

Yes, work your way back. At least all the way back to "…From The Pagan Vastlands".

Isn't Proclamation from Spain?

Schmendrick, maybe, but he was one of the best Offensive Niblings to set foot on the Flutney. You could count on him to give 110% in all seven (or eight) Ogres. Led the league in Woomiks twelve years running.

The funniest thing about the later years of "The Lighter Side Of…" is that the fashions were permanently stuck in 1976.

Speaking of Batman
Nabin needs to do Burt Ward's "Boy Wonder: My Life In Tights" for The Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club. There was some pretty hilarious stuff in there, like West asking a groupie to "worship his spitting cobra".

60 hours a week at Suburban Tire with nonstop butt-rock on WWBZ. They played the holy living fuck out of "Winds Of Change" that summer.

The best thing about Dream Theater is their cover of "Damage, Inc." with Barney Greenway on vocals.

Old Warhorses
The new Suffocation is a solid album. It drags a bit towards the end, but that may just be due to the superfluous bonus tracks. Frank Mullen has a tradition of changing his vocal style from album to album, and that's the case here. I'm a bit disappointed, since his vocals were one of the things that…

Huh, and here I thought Immortal was the most unintentionally hilarious band in the world.

"Effigy Of The Forgotten".

So is this a legit, Morbid Angel-sanctioned re-release, or is Earache screwing them over like they did with Bolt Thrower's "Realm Of Chaos".

Weird. I had the same experience with my "I Am The Law" back patch. The hand-drawn "In Battle There Is No Law" cover on the sleeveless army jacket didn't help either.

Huh. It was that same Quiet Riot video that started me down the Left Hand Path too.

Euronymous wrote it, but unfortunately Attila sang it. Maniac would have been better. Or Dead, for that matter.

This is one of those instances of splitting hairs within metal subgenres. Viking Metal is generally defined as a subgenre of Black Metal/Pagan Metal. It's more of a stylistic than lyrical differentiation.

Writing a Primer on anything that people are as passionate about as metalheads are about their music has got to be a thankless task.

Manowar.

I think a lot of the shit Slipknot gets is due to their fans. They seem like a bunch of 14-year-olds.

I deny the existence of anything after #5.