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Scott Ian of Anthrax Remembers The Band’s Craziest West Coast Gig

Since forming the seminal heavy metal band, Anthrax in New York in the early ’80s, guitarist Scott Ian has been a vocal presence and ambassador for thrash metal going on 35 years. Ian not only formed a band that would contribute to the bible of thrash metal, but managed to keep Anthrax alive, despite turbulent times …

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Are Escapist Events Just Conduits to a Better Reality?

As entertaining as reality is, particularly during this last year, opportunities to step into another world can be quite appealing. For some people, venturing into an altered reality provides not only an escape but also a catharsis from their daylit lives. Over the past several years, there have been several nocturnal costume balls that have …

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The Metal Mayhem at Dimebash 2018 Did Dimebag Darrell Justice

Dimebash 2018 The Observatory 1/25/2018 December 8, 2004. A date that rocked the metal community to its very core, whose tremors are still felt thirteen years later. A day that will forever exist in infamy, known simply as the night metal’s ultimate bro was violently stripped from our ears and yanked from our hearts. Darrell …

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Mary Pranksters Says Good Riddance, 2017: Swatting 12 Months to the Curb Has Never Felt So Good

From Donald Trump‘s inauguration to the dismantling of the Environmental Protection Agency to devastating massacres and the new tax-bill scam, 2017 has been a loaded cannon of swine feces. Honestly, how often have you approached a new year feeling as if the previous one were a psychotic relationship you’d do anything to wash your hands …

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