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Evil incarnate

Slayer stick to their Satanic program
Metal reveres above all the single mind, undivided by doubt or the gentle dialectics of sanity.
By JAMES PARKER  |  September 28, 2006

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The New New Age

The movement pulls away from the mainstream and gets apocalyptic
“In the United States,” wrote novelist and poet Jim Harrison in 1976, “it is a curious habit of ours to wait for the future when it has happened already.”| Daniel Pinchbeck discusses 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl (mp3)
By JAMES PARKER  |  August 17, 2006

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Time bandits

Six Organs of Admittance
"I like music to miss the beat because it produces that sense of time expanding," says Six Organs' Ben Chasny. "All the drummers that I love, their timing is slightly off — it just fucks with you.”
By JAMES PARKER  |  July 20, 2006

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Damnocracy

Supergroup and the state of heavy-metal nation
Supergroup was the bastard son of two other VH1 shows — The Surreal Life and Behind the Music — in that it offered a new and bristling hybrid of “celebreality.”
By JAMES PARKER  |  July 11, 2006

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True Dick?

Looking for fidelity to the cyber-punk master
Philip K. Dick saw into the future, man, the FUTURE. Scanner brained: Richard Linklater animates Philip K. Dick’s Darkly . By Peter Keough A slacker darkly: Why Dick likes Dick. By Peter Keough
By JAMES PARKER  |  July 05, 2006

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Massed metal

The legacy of the great Only Living Witness
Here’s your dose of heavy-metal splendor: a young man stands on a mattress on the floor of a room in his mother’s house in Tewksbury holding in his hands a $100 bass that he borrowed from his cousin, emptying his mind, priming his core. Only Living Witness, "December" (mp3) | Shadows Fall, "December" (mp3)
By JAMES PARKER  |  July 04, 2006

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Hollywood holidaze

The Minutemen and the LA they endured
Punk rock had jetpacked the Minutemen into a synæsthetic sound world where ideas had the same value as chords, where Reagan’s policy in Central America could be related directly to the setting of your amp.
By JAMES PARKER  |  June 24, 2006

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War stories

Antler don’t want your crack
The men of Antler are no longer chasing the big time, balls crushed in leather pants. What are they hoping for from this project? Antler, "The Gentle Butcher   (mp3)
By JAMES PARKER  |  June 14, 2006

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Heavy-metal chill out

Growing and SunnO))) crawl to the drone
Drone metal. Cats love it, and probably unborn children, too, hearing it buzzed through the womb wall. Boris, "Farewell"   (mp3) Sunn O))), "It Took The Night To Believe"  (mp3) Growing, "Green Pasture"   
By JAMES PARKER  |  June 15, 2006

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Apocalypse now

Killing Joke resume their urgent war dance
Jaz Coleman — magus, timelord, leader of the tribe of Killing Joke — is theatrically drunk on the end of a phone in the Czech Republic.
By JAMES PARKER  |  May 28, 2006

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Jung at heart

Tool at the Orpheum
Standing in front of the blossoming AV screens, Maynard Keenan is Col. Kilgore on the beach in Apocalypse Now , an apparition of stolid derangement, now and again accenting a particularly colossal time-change with a slow-motion karate kick.
By JAMES PARKER  |  May 25, 2006

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Alchemical ascendancy

Into the heart of Tool’s darkness
Maynard James Keenan, to borrow an observation made about the young William Burroughs, has the face of a sheep-killing dog — taut, starved, bleakly symmetrical, with an underhang of menace.
By JAMES PARKER  |  May 17, 2006

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Local lunatic

The lost gospel of GG Allin
When GG Allin’s prolonged and ordurous interrogation of his own existence ended at last in June 1993, when punk rock’s abuser-in-chief finally exited the reeking stage via the trapdoor of an overdose, the informed consensus was . . . well, that’s that then.
By JAMES PARKER  |  April 28, 2006

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Combat pop

Hard-Fi fight for the right to, uh, party
The new British sound is marked by riot vans, rage-engorged faces in taxi queues, the mute vigilance of the cameras, and everywhere the sense of some remote flogging going on.
By JAMES PARKER  |  April 12, 2006

The Orb

Grounded at Axis
Wanna hear my Orb story? Thought not.
By JAMES PARKER  |  April 04, 2006

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Moz-a-mania

The singular brilliance of Morrissey  
The disappointing thing about Henry Rollins — otherwise a paragon of American manhood — has always been the fact that he is, in public at least, a Moz basher.
By JAMES PARKER  |  March 27, 2006

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The Cult

Children of the wolf
Embrace the wind with both arms!
By JAMES PARKER  |  March 27, 2006

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Rock and roles

Scissorfight star in their greatest epic yet
Late March, 2005, Allston: Ironlung is in the parking lot of Mad Oak Studios, a large man stranded in the midafternoon, wearing flip-flops, standing in a desert of cigarette butts, asphalt, despair.
By JAMES PARKER  |  March 22, 2006

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Post-punk prophet

Simon Reynolds rips into rock’s strangest era
With a narrative arc that begins in the London dub dungeon of Public Image Limited and ends in the worldbeating semen storm of Frankie Goes to Hollywood, the whole grand experiment of post-punk is tracked and given coherence.
By JAMES PARKER  |  March 21, 2006

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Surprisingly good

Arctic Monkeys beat the hype
Leonard Cohen once said that living in England was like living inside a cabbage, a simile I can improve only by adding: an electrified cabbage.
By JAMES PARKER  |  March 13, 2006
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