Subject: Metal and Hardcore

• Back from hell

  April 13, 2000

• Hell on Earth: The Midwest Metal/Hardcore Fest

  July 20, 2000

• Megadeth with Mötley Crüe

  August 17, 2000

• Turnstyle

  September 21, 2000

• Best Place to Go to a Random Concert

  October 19, 2000

• Letters

  November 23, 2000

• Around Hear

  July 19, 2001

• A Matter of Thrust

  February 28, 2002

• Ready to Grumble

  May 2, 2002

• 'Sun Rise

  August 15, 2002

• Sepultura

  January 2, 2003

• downthesun

  January 2, 2003

• Saxon

  January 23, 2003

• Metal Meltdown

  July 10, 2003

• Slayer / Motörhead

  January 8, 2004

• Probot

  February 26, 2004

• Slipknot

  July 1, 2004

• Opeth

  July 8, 2004

• There are lots of ways to kill rock stars.

  July 15, 2004

• Eyes of the Betrayer

  November 18, 2004

• Albert Mudrian

  January 6, 2005

• Joel McIver and Thomas Gabriel Fischer

  January 6, 2005

• Meshuggah

  May 26, 2005

• Pittcore

  September 7, 2006

• Alice in Chains

  November 16, 2006

• Suicidal Tendencies

  November 27, 2008

• Is High on Fire the Next Metallica?

  February 14, 2008

• Sammy Hagar

  November 15, 2007

• Shred Cred

  November 15, 2007

• Filthy Jim

  February 15, 2007

• Dimmu Borgir

  May 17, 2007

• King Thrash

  February 1, 2007

• Still Smilin'

  January 25, 2007

• Moiré

  August 31, 2006

• Lions

  August 17, 2006

• Hagar the Horrible

  July 13, 2006

• Slayer

  June 22, 2006

• Good Karma

  April 13, 2006

• For Those About to Rock

  November 24, 2005

• Incoming: Motorhead with Reverend Horton Heat and Nashville Pussy

  HOLYFUCKINGSHIT Motorhead's coming back to KC on September 24, at the Midland Theater with Reverend Horton Heat and Nashville Pussy.   If you haven't seen Motorhead you need to see Motorhead. The Rev and Nashville Pussy are OK, too, but they're not Motorhead. Any attempt to describe their live show will only, at best, dissolve into the type of mad surrealism that governs the Book of Revelations. Here's Jason Harper trying in a review of Motorhead's 2008 KC show at the Voodoo Loung

  June 26, 2009

• Tonight: Sunn0))) @ Riot Room

  Ambient drone-metal wizards Sunn0))) pull in for a rare local appearance tonight at the Riot Room. If you're in the mood for something heavy and transporting outside the realm of the conventional (and, evidently, the physical), you're advised not to miss -- and to bring earplugs. And eat a simple meal beforehand. Paul Friswold of the Riverfront Times saw fit to quote a tour rider in his recent interview with Sunn0))): "Sunn O))) is 125dB on stage. Sunn O))) is very loud. Sunn O))) focuses on lo

  July 7, 2009

• The Rockstar Mayhem Festival

  July 16, 2009

• Today's Mayhem Festival Lineup

  The lineup for today's Rockstar Mayhem Fest out at Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone featuring Slayer and Marilyn Manson is as follows. Print it out, staple it to your spare corpse, throw it in the trunk and go, metalhead, go. Hot Topic/Extreme Metal Stage WhiteChapel 2:15-2:45 Behemoth 3:05-3:35 Black Dahlia Murder 4:05-4:35 Job for a Cowboy 5:05-5:35 Cannibal Corpse 6:45-7:20 Jägermeister Stage Continent of Ash 2:45-3:05 God Forbid 3:35-4:05 All That Remans

  July 21, 2009

• Heavy Cello

  July 23, 2009

• Concert Review: Slayer and Marilyn Manson at Mayhem Fest

  I have to talk to you about last night's Mayhem Fest tour stop at Sandstone but I really don't wanna. But I should just quit bitching and go on with things because I knew what the responsibilities were when I asked for the gig. Fuck. Who would've thought you'd feel this way the day after a Slayer show? And therein lies all the problems in the world. So let's just do this and get it over with.Peter RuggClick for slide show.If you don't know about the Mayhem Festival it's a touring act of metal ba

  July 22, 2009

• Download Eulogy Recordings' Free Sampler

  Metal! Fucking metal! Actually, not really. I can't tell the difference between your average metal band and your average straight edge hardcore band anymore. Ever since Earth Crisis, I've been totally confused. ​ So, it comes as no surprise that Eulogy Recordings is a hardcore label specializing in straight edge. If you head over to the Eulogy Sampler page, you can download twenty tracks from recent and upcoming releases on the label, as well as demos from Living Hell and Turmoil.

  August 10, 2009

• Incoming: Megadeth at the Beaumont, December 5

  You read that right. Megadeth at the Beaumont? I'd figure they were at least Uptown material. megadeth.com​Still...nice, right? Dave Mustaine didn't exactly get presented in the best light in Some Kind of Monster, but I'm actually more inclined to understand why he writes all of those songs that come off as a man tortured and oppressed. Dude's got issues, that's for sure, and I think I understand "Sweating Bullets" now. Megadeth is touring in support of their new album out today, entitle

  September 15, 2009

• Metalocalypse Tour

  October 8, 2009

• Concert Review: Metalocalypse tour at the Uptown featuring Dethklok and Mastodon

  Strange occurrences throughout the metro last night. A baby born deaf heard her mother's voice for the first time. A veteran wounded in Iraq spontaneously regenerated an amputated leg. A note was discovered on the smoking ruins where the Phelps family Scott Spychalski​headquarters was located, reading: "We have placed the children with child services to be given to loving, tolerant families, set ourselves on fire, and hired a dump truck to salt the earth at dawn tomorrow so nothing wil

  October 13, 2009

• Motorhead's Lemmy & Slayer's Dave Lombardo Cover "Stand By Me"

  Y'know what's totally fucked up about this? It's a completely straight cover. No crazy riffing, no starting out slow and ramping it up to insanity speed like Pennywise -- nope, Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead and Dave Lombardo of Slayer do the Ben E. King standard 100% seriously, and rather reverently. The version was recorded for the the soundtrack to the new Flip Skateboards film, Extremely Sorry. Then again, if you've heard the Head Cat album Lemmy did with Slim Jim Phantom and Danny B. Harvey,

  November 4, 2009