Been a while since I've done one of these, huh? I ran out of subgenres to give a primer on (no, I won't do post-metal, sludge metal, they are mostly boring), so let's go over new shit I found in my 1 year hiatus.

Orchid

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Guess who's back, bitches.

National Day Of Slayer

The best holiday ever is tomorrow. Throw the horns, blast Slayer, and remember to drink a Heineken for the Mighty Hanneman.

For those of you that missed it, Jeff Hanneman's memorial service was today in LA. This blog is a good read, and the thought of a bunch of circle pits going on at the service warms my heart.

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You will be missed.

Dude was the brains behind Slayer. For starters, he wrote Angel Of Death, Raining Blood, War Ensemble, South Of Heaven. While some (Kerry King) will say Kerry King was the driving force behind Slayer, it was really Jeff. We lost a great one today.

Raise a Heineken in his name tonight.

Ever thought "how in the Hell did they come up with a name like that?" The short answer is, more than likely, a combination of drugs, stuff lying around, and/or drunken/stoned shenanigans. But some bands have pretty interesting stories behind how they got their names.

Black Sabbath

What do an old Horror movie, a blues-jazz band out of Birminham, UK, and talcum powder have to do with Black Sabbath?

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Since I've mostly run out of genre's interesting enough to actually devote blogs to (the most interesting one I can think of right now is post-metal, which is really just one stroke away from musical masturbation, really), we are gonna have a little story time. This week, the infamous Parent's Music Resource Center, or the PMRC. They are the reason most CD's have the explicit content warnings on them, even if they do next to nothing.

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You betcha.

I'm not gonna lie, this is the good shit. Its like Falling Off The Edge Of The World crossed with Children of The Grave, and that makes me incredibly happy.

So the first weekend Coachella Festival started Friday. You may remember Coachella from hologram Tupac appearing and doing stuff last year. This year seems to be a little less interesting. To wit, there are 3 things that caught my attention about it:

1. Stone Roses got back together

They have a couple of good songs, and apparently they reunited after a couple years to tour again.

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