Interview: Chrome Division ready to head out for the highway with “Booze, Broads And Beelzebub”

 
Chrome Division — Norway’s answer to hellbent-for-leather biker rock ‘n’ roll — began life as a side project of sorts, as individual members broke away from their main bands to bash out some straight-ahead metal.
But the “side project” has now grown into a monster of its own — which suits bassist Bjorn Luna just fine.
“I [...]

Run, Immortal kids! Run!

Ah, the glory of wasting time on YouTube. You never know what you’ll find.
Take this, for example. Black metal fanatics (or, at least, a bunch of junior high school students with mom’s camcorder, some Halloween make-up and too much time on their hands) decided to create an homage to Immortal’s sinister video ”Call of the [...]

Metallica vs. The Downloaders

There aren’t many bands in metal more loved – and loathed – than Metallica.
Check any metal site with a comment section, and you’ll find dudes lined up around the block to criticize anything everything Metallica says and does. 

Yeah, old-school fans can argue that the band slipped with “Load” and “Reload” in the 1990s, and I [...]

Review: Nachtmystium’s "Worldfall" (Century Media)

 Chicago’s Nachtmystium first appeared on my radar with “Instinct: Decay,” an album that blended the rawness of black metal with stoned-out psychedelica, tripping rhythms and computer gurgles that warbled like Hal from “2001: A Space Odyssey” mating with a Radio Shack calculator. And I mean all of that in a very good way. Even though [...]