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Eyal Levi from Dååth, Levi/Werstler, and Audiohammer Studios has obviously been in this business for some time now, and he's learned a thing or two about a thing or two. This week, he imparts ten lessons about the music biz - and life in general - to you, our beloved readers, once a day, two installments at a time. [...]

Friendly reminder: as of RIGHT THIS SECOND, the legendary Richard Christy from Death, Iced Earth, Control Denied, and, oh yeah, The Howard Stern Show, is at the MetalSucks/Vertebrae 33  booth at New York Comic Con signing copies of Charred Walls of the Damned's ridiculously rocking new album, Cold Winds on Timeless Days, which is out NOW on [...]

Happy birthday, Reign in Blood! We love you. You don't sound a day over one. Here's some other things that happened this week which are worth celebrating: We started the countdown to The Metal Suckfest. We debuted new music by Immolation and a new video by Early Graves. Devin Townsend and Textures' Jochem Jacobs and Bart Hennephof took [...]

Have you ever stayed in a situation when you knew deep down inside that it was already doomed? I believe in the power of positive thinking a rational amount. That is, if I keep my mind focused on the right shit, the right shit happens in my life. If I focus on the wrong shit, [...]

Isn’t waiting when you’re ready one of the most frustrating things ever? "Hurry up and wait" is a very familiar cliché in the music industry. Well, from years of touring and recording, I can say that it’s one of those clichés that’s based on some truth. When you are so focused and ready to do [...]

All people are not created equal; anybody who thinks so is kidding themselves. Sure, we all deserve equal rights and yada yada yada, but to think that we’re all born with equal intelligence, talent, drive, temperament, etc., is borderline delusional. If we were truly equal, than each of our ultimate impacts on the world and [...]

In a lot of ways, Francis Ford Coppola is to cinema as Metallica are to metal. He directed four incredible movies (the first two Godfather films, The Conversation, and Apocalypse Now), all of which still hold up as examples of the craft at its finest, and then he devolved into self-parody. (The Godfather: Part III [...]

I'm sad to say that Eyal wasn't able to do a new "Jumping Darkness Parade" this week - but cut the dude some slack, he's currently on tour in Europe! So to make sure you get your Levi fix this week, I thought that now would be an ideal time to post the below live [...]

So last night's question was tricky - so tricky, in fact, that only one person got it right! Necro's real name is Ron Braunstein, and, yep, he's Jewish. And despite his name, Darkest Hour's Mike "Lonestar" Carrigan is, indeed, half-Jewish. I was caught off-guard when I saw Igor Cavalera included in this article at The Gauntlet [...]

We're shuttering the Mansion gates early today for tomorrow's Thanksgiving holiday, 'cause let's face it: you've all gone home already and have long since put up your "I am out of the office. If it's urgent, call my cell phone" auto-responders. Please, people: no one cares about you. Get over it! Here's what happened in [...]

Newsflash: You’re not going to get signed and become a rock star. Fucking get over that dream. I know I’ve talked about this before, and here I am talking about it again. You see, DAATH just went out on tour again, and once again, we’re getting demos and pressure to hand them over to our [...]

Why am I writing this week's "Worst Week" entirely in questions? Could it be to irritate you? Or am I just trying to keep myself amused at the end of the week? Did you know we asked some other questions this week? Was Sergeant D. kidding when he said that there are only two good [...]

I’ll admit, I had some writer’s block coming into this blog. Sometimes it’s hard to think of what to write. I’ve been racking my brain for a few days now with the burning question… “What will I write about next time?” Good fucking question, and I really don’t have an answer in sight. So I’ve [...]

When I talked about killing the album, I was making a point about how internet downloading follows certain principles. 1) The principle of classification, 2) the principle of knowledge, and 3) the principle of inevitability. When you are an established band, all of these things are in place for your album to be downloaded off [...]

So as you're no doubt aware, Halloween is on Sunday, and as you're hopefully aware, we're holding a "Heavy Metal Halloween" contest with SPV. The deadline was announced as being on midnight on Halloween, the logic being that people would snap their photos before they went our partying; but Vince wisely pointed out that people [...]

So as you're no doubt aware, Halloween is on Sunday, and as you're hopefully aware, we're holding a "Heavy Metal Halloween" contest with SPV. The deadline was announced as being on midnight on Halloween, the logic being that people would snap their photos before they went our partying; but Vince wisely pointed out that people [...]

Raise your hand if you’ve got trust issues. I’m sure that at least ten thousand of you readers raised your hands. And I’m sure that those of you who didn’t are either living in denial or just have figured out the key to trust. I think I figured out the key to trust, and while [...]

Sean Reinert is quite the accomplished drummer; aside from his job as the skinsman in Cynic, Reinert's talents have long been appreciated and worshipped by drummers the world over. If you can remember all the way back to Spring of this year (long time ago, I know) you'd also remember that he played drums on [...]

So. The wait is over - Dååth's self-titled Century Media release is out today. If you haven't already purchased a copy, you can still order it here, or download it from iTunes or Amazon. I've made it clear how much I really love and admire this album, but I'll do it one more time to emphasize to you [...]

Damn. I haven’t written a blog for you guys while flying in quite a while. (Don’t worry, I still hate it, but 2.75mg of Xanax helps me forget.) So the question is, “Why have I not been writing to you from the air like I used to all the time?” Well, the fact of the [...]