Mash-up of the Week

From the album ØF KINGDØM AND CRØWN (2022)

From the album Screaming for Vengeance (1982)

From the album Cowboys from Hell (1990) - My neighbours told me that this track is one of the best on the album.

From the album "Around the fur" (1997).

From the album "Orgasmatron", 1986

From the album Dxxm II (2021)

Pretty much the best cover of a Twisted Sister song.

No need to worry about how AC/DC hasn't popped out new music in six years, because a computer program called AI/DC wrote its own, perfect Acca Dacca song.

Greta Thunberg responds to viral video: “From now on I’ll be doing death metal only” The climate activist acknowledges the extreme metal version of her UN speech

Content Warning: This essay brings up sexual violence and suicide ideation at various points. By Rachel Presser.

Despite gruesome lyrics, death metal does not desensitise fans to images of violence, a study shows.

found dead at his home in Essex; police not treating the death as suspicious

Fans of this violent music report feelings of transcendence and positive emotions; psychologists want to learn why

“In 1820, the great Northern War Chief Hongi Hika departed New Zealand for England. On his return, he brought with him the word of God and hundreds of muskets. Things would never be the same again …” … so begins the video for Alien Weaponry’s new single, ‘Kai Tangata’.

Welcome to Aotearoa, the land of the long white cloud. In a particularly pastoral section of the North Island lives the De Jong family. The youngest of whom formed the band “Alien Weaponry” back when they were 8 and 10 years old. Their blend of metal, traditional Maori language, history, and a long-standing beef with the system just debuted as number one on the music charts in New Zealand.

From the magnificent album "Screaming for Vengeance" (1982)

An Andrew W.K. cover from the Trashed, Lost & Strungout E.P.