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Danzig – Deth Red Sabaoth
I’ve always been a huge Danzig fan, ever since the first time I heard him while in junior high. Imagine being a budding metal-obsessed teenager and discovering a dude who looks like Wolverine, sings...
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Danzig – Mother ’93 (video)
Danzig’s video for “Mother ’93″ is my favorite music video of all time. And with a new Danzig album coming out this week, I figured now was as good a time as any to wax nostalgic about it. Four bad...
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I Was A Teenage Metalhead.
Okay, so a couple of folks have asked me to write something about how I got into heavy metal. Well, let me start by saying it wasn’t easy to do, being trapped in the bowels of the Midwest. Furthermore...
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Danzig – Deth Red Sabaoth (Evilive/The End, 2010)
I admit it, I’m a complete Danzig fanboy. When someone says “They could put out a recording of their bowel movements and someone would buy it”, that “someone” they are talking about is me. I...
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Abominations of Record Collection Domination…
Over the weekend, I picked up a used copy of Napalm Death’s Smear Campaign. While preparing to file it in my CD rack, I noticed that I now owned nine total releases from Napalm Death. This, combined...
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Beware the Misfits
In honor of Halloween, I thought I would take a moment to divert from the regularly scheduled THKD programming. Do not attempt to adjust your monitor. I control the horizontal. I control the...
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THKD’s TOP 20 METAL ALBUMS OF 2010
2010 was a year of the highest highs and the lowest lows. I married the love of my life. I took a promotion at work. This site marked it’s one year anniversary and was featured on National Public...
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I bet you’re gonna like it in A.D. (or the first trve black metal album).
“When you feel like you’re going too slow / I bet you’re gonna like it in / A.D. A.D / People gonna talk about / A.D. A.D. / Bloody hell and sacrifice” -”Earth A.D.” I’ve been listening to the Misfit’s...
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THKD’s 10 Favorite American Metal Albums.
In honor of the Fourth of July, I thought it couldn’t hurt to add a little patriotic flare to THKD by celebrating my 10 favorite American metal albums. Remember, “favorite” doesn’t necessarily mean...
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Blitzkrieg #5: There’s no such thing as Guilty Pleasures…
I recently had a brief exchange w/ Revolver Magazine editor Brandon Geist via twitter in which I chided him for being excited at the prospect of a new Cobalt record after he had publicly praised the...
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Interview: GLORIOR BELLI
Raw, primal, hypnotic. These terms describe the hellish, killing floor blues of Robert Johnson and Howlin’ Wolf just as aptly as they do the grim, violent black metal stylings of Darkthrone and...
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Blitzkrieg #7: Metal vs. Religion
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, metal gave me the strength to accept my budding Atheism during my youth. I wish I could say there was some epiphanic moment that came late one night while...
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Blitzkrieg #10: Old Gods Almost Dead
A few weeks ago, I was sitting on my couch watching the Bad Religion episode of Guitar Center Sessions. For those of you that are unfamiliar with the show, it consists of the band playing their “hits”...
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Finally… Danzig.
At this point, my status as a Glenn Danzig maniac is far beyond well-documented. Between the Misfits, Samhain and Danzig, I’ve devoted more digital ink to the man’s music than to any other artist...
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THKD’s top 10 Random-ass things I enjoyed in 2013
When I first started thinking about how to approach THKD’s year end shenanigans for 2013, I tried to come up with ideas for different types of lists that would get away from the traditional top albums...
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The Other Misfits.
When most of us think of the Misfits, we’re thinking of the legendary Glenn Danzig-fronted lineup that walked among us from 1977 to 1983. The band that single-handedly invented horror punk, and went...
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Samhain @ The Warfield, San Francisco, CA 09/20/14
Longtime THKD readers will recall that late last year I finally got to see Danzig live after being a fan of the man and his music for twenty years. Considering the fact that the set included a slew...
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THKD’s Top 100 Metal Albums #11: Danzig – Danzig II: Lucifuge (Def American,...
How in the blue hell did I manage to get even this far into the THKD Top 100 without covering a Danzig album?! Granted, the list is in no particular order, but given my Danzig super-fan status, you’d...
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Chuck Biscuits Redux
Apparently, the report of Chuck Biscuits’ passing away last weekend was a complete HOAX. Click HERE to read the details from the blog that originally broke the news. I guess the valuable lesson to be...
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IG’s Top 11 music related things I enjoyed in 2015
I had an intro written and ready to go, reflecting on all the good and bad that heavy music in 2015 had to offer (mostly bad), but then I remembered that no one reads these long-winded, pointless...
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