Pandora, the music recommendation service, has a podcast covering various aspects of music and composition. In their latest podcast, Types of metal, they cover the various forms of metal genre and the differences in them. The host Kevin Seal along with guests guitarist Ava Mendoza, bassist Kurt Kotheimer and drummer Weasel Walter show us the [...]
Frets on Fire is a music video game in which users use the keyboard to play along with scrolling on-screen musical notes to complete a song. The game is developed by Unreal Voodoo and is a clone of the popular Guitar Hero console game.
The game features a unique inverted keyboard which emulates a guitar, with [...]
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According to Indiainfo.com, New Delhi’s The History Channel, an infotainment television channel, has launched a 17-part special series on classic rock music. The series History Rocks was launched Friday with a concert by the Indian band PARIKRAMA in the capital. It will formally go on air June 5 and will present recordings of memorable [...]
Orion, a thrash metal band from Pakistan, recently released their debut album, ‘Angel Of Dust’, absolutely free for download from their official website. Orion are Ameer Hamza, Hammad Khan, Hussam Raza, Waqas Ahmed, Imaad Manzar and Bilal Nadeem.
From the band’s website:
ORION is a diverse metal band from Pakistan that is influenced by bands like [...]
Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux and available on Linux/Windows/Mac. The main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.
The drum machine features a pattern sequencer with unlimited patterns and ability to chain patterns. Capable of handling upto 64 ticks per pattern and 32 instruments with multi layer support. [...]
Metal Blogs.com, a blog run by death has posts on death metal, psychology and has a very interesting article comparing the Indian caste system with metal music. The article compares the various castes with metal bands. An excerpt from the article:
At the top are the Brahmins. These are the geniuses who invent new things [...]
World’s Fastest Drummer (WFD for short) is a website showcasing, well, the world’s fastest drummers. The contest is held through out the world and has been covered my major television networks. The contest has also been featured in print media like Wired, Modern Drummer etc.
WFD is the brain child of Alan ‘Boo’ McAfee who is [...]
Mike Hrubovcak is artist/musician who plays in some of the best extreme metal bands like Monstrosity, Vile and Divine Rapture. Mike has done album covers for some of the best extreme metal bands like Sinister, Grave, Awaiting The Autopsy to name a few. Mike has done logos for Pure Death Productions, Lost And Found Records, [...]
Headbanger’s Blog, the official blog of the famous MTV’s Headbanger’s Ball program posts cryptic, indecipherable logos of bands on their blog. The bands featured on the blog play extreme metal anywhere from brutal death, gore/grind to black metal. The bands logos are extremely difficult to guess and the blog posts the answer to the post [...]
Heavy Metal in Baghdad is a feature film documentary that follows the Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda from the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 to the present day. Playing heavy metal in a Muslim country has always been a difficult (if not impossible) proposition but after Saddam’s regime was toppled, there was a brief [...]
