by Raizel Liebler and Keidra Chaney Hey, metalheads! Are you listening to BABYMETAL under cover of darkness? We at TLF want to you throw off…
by Raizel Liebler Regardless of whether most people know or like the music of Mötley Crüe, they know of Tommy Lee and his amazing spinning…
by Keidra Chaney Over the Thanksgiving holiday, the band Mastodon sold a Thanksgiving-themed shirt on their website. Here’s the shirt: I gasped aloud when I…
by Raizel Liebler The Metallica/Megadeth feud has kept metalheads in fine debate form for thirty years. The heart of the debate revolves around songs that…
-By Raizel Liebler If you are a fan, you should read Laina Dawes‘ What are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in…
I’ve wanted to do this interview series for about a year now. The Space Between, for me, refers to the space between passion and profession,…
by Vivian Obarski and Keidra Chaney This conversation was on the heels of an in-person conversation that Viv and I had earlier this year, there’s…
Heavy music was dealt a huge blow this week, with the shuttering of independent label Hydra Head Records, a casualty of the recording industry and…
For some reason, heavy metal – the music, the musicians, the fan culture – has inspired a lot of great documentary films. One day I…
In the December 2011 issue of Decibel magazine (“America’s only extreme music magazine”), I read the interesting, but expected Dave-Mustaine-this-time-he-is-totes-over-his-feuds-he-means-it-even-if-he-is-called-SuperDave-and-Junior-isn’t-called-Junior story; lots of short articles…