Recent content by Ian Christe

...and now it looks like the Hard Attack channel on Sirius Radio is giving away copies of the book all this week. Free entry form at their site. All hail the gods of paper.

Okay, you can now officially download a FREE sample chapter of my book SOUND of the BEAST: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal through the link HERE: http://www.soundofthebeast.com/news.html This is the new chapter exclusive to the paperback, with loads of new material on...

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Soulseek, plus I've been finding things on BitTorrent.

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Hmm, I've never noticed that problem, but you can view most of the videos on the official band sites. The Ephel Duath clip looks great in highspeed mode.

Understatement of the year: "Good"

This album is great, and a big surprise after so many years without news. I wrote a story on them for Metal Maniacs, and just wondering -- anybody here from the Middle East make it to the reunion or Mabool release shows?

Hey, you prayed for a Stryper documentary, and it worked. Hail Satan! Some friends of mine who seem to know what they're doing made a 20-minute movie about last year's Stryper reunion /convention in Arcadia, CA. I'd recommend that anyone with a fast Internet connection and a perverse...

Cool, I'm glad to hear it. Twice through rules! I'll figure out how to get you the new chapter...

Yeah!

Revised/Expanded w/ Muslims, power metal & metalcore! Touted in hardcover as "the gospel of heavy metal," Ian Christe's SOUND of the BEAST: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal returns in revised and expanded paperback with a global overview of heavy metal developments in Lebanon...

I'm also a big proponent of their VHS/DVD video collection: for a band that never amounted to anything saleswise in America, it blows me away that they've consistently had a video budget for every album. The clip for "Hopkins" uses footage from Conqueror Worm and Mark of the Devil and is very...

If you blame Pantera for the nu metal era, you could say nu metal ended when they finally broke up.

Now that I've heard the CD: It should/could be a lot better. They seem to have only about 70% of the gas they need to support and propel the amazing heaps of ideas and skill here. My attention wandered after half an hour. It's not as lethal as Wolf's Lair, or as experimental as Grand...