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There was never a universe where Flipper were going to become commercially successful. Even at their most accessible, they sounded like a band actively resisting the idea of popularity. Slow, ugly, repetitive, sarcastic, deliberately uncomfortable, and seemingly allergic to anything resembling conventional punk energy, Flipper made music that felt designed to clear rooms instead of…
There’s something strangely comforting about Storm the Gates. Of all the older metal bands still releasing basically the same record every few years, Venom might be the most consistent of them all. They are still cranking out songs about hell, war, Satan, evil, and destruction with the enthusiasm of a band half their age. It…
It was 1985, just like in the song from Bowling for Soup, and we were all wondering who the new guy in Van Halen was going to be. It is very hard to explain the importance of this moment in our young lives. Mostly because, in the greater context of the planet, with all its…