Aaron Lefkove over at Gibson.com wrote up an breif article of heavy metal’s power trios. Not many, only 5 hear, but there is a link to check out more namely power trios from a previous article.
Some of the bands he names are Wolfmother, Budgie, Motorhead, Boris, and Venom. Giving a little insight on each band and their sounds.
I saw this Boris video last night on Headbanger’s Ball and I was extremely bored with not only the music but the video as well. And something creeps me out about the look on the guitarist face. She’s got an angry, ‘cheat on …read more

According to blabbermouth.net, Venom will be releasing their new album ‘Hell’ in August in North America. Here is a short excerpt:
Universal Music Enterprises has set an August 12 North American release date for “Hell”, the new album from British black metal pioneers VENOM. A promotional video for the CD can be viewed at this location.

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Opeth – Watershed
Disturbed – Indistructable
2008 Warped Tour Compilation
John 5 – Requiem
Led Zeppelin – IV Vinyl Re-release
P.O.D. – Greatest Hits: The Atlantic Years
Pain Control – Subvert (Import)
Marshal Law – Power Crazy {Best Of} (Import)
Venom – Witching Hour (Import)

It’s amazing how sometimes the smallest, most stupid things are noticed by metal fans like myself. For instance…
No matter how old Alice Cooper gets…he still has some very nice teeth. Must have a good dental plan.
Tommy Lee, as much as I hate him and think he is such an over-rated, mediocre drummer…you can not deny that he can twirl a drum stick like no other.
That thing on Lemmy’s face gets bigger every time I see it.
George Corpse-grinder Fisher’s neck is much wider than his head.
Black metal is still the goofiest genre in metal…even compared to Nu-Metal.
Every Time I see a …read more

I’m about to pack my Sh*t and move to Europe. Check out the roster that is shaping up for France’s Hellfest. Visit http://www.hellfest.fr/web08/ for ticket info.
SLAYER
MOTÖRHEAD
VENOM
CAVALERA CONSPIRACY
NOFX
IN FLAMES
DIMMU BORGIR
CARCASS

Old School British Black Metal band Venom (I’m not a fan) have pushed the release of their new record back to next year. Below is an excerpt from an article from Blabbermouth.net.
British black metal pioneers VENOM have decided to re-record some of the already completed tracks for their upcoming album and push back the CD’s projected release date to early 2008.

Moving forward to the eighties, heavy metal spawned many “Satanic” bands into popularity. Venom, Slayer, Merciful Fate, the whole nine. These days there is still a slew of Satanic bands but lets face it, 97% of it is gimmick. The other 3% is those crazy black metal Scandinavian bands; they take their devil music seriously!!
Writing songs these days isn’t easy because after all what is there to write that hasn’t already been written about. If you lived a good life and you don’t want to be a poser you don’t write songs about how hard your life was growing up. …read more

Devil Music: Satan Sells…But Who’s Buying?
As we all know when you ask the average person off the street what the first thing they think of when you say the words “Heavy Metal”, they will tell you “Devil Music”. That’s what we expect from the ignorant, but ignorant or not it is what a lot of heavy metal has been based around for a long time.
This didn’t all start with heavy metal contrary to what everyone wants to believe. The devil in music dates far back to the early days of the blues when Robert Johnson a famous short-lived blues musician …read more