METAL BLOG, Vol. 2 - by Steff Chirazi

What’s got eight legs, eight arms and four hearts that project as a dozen? That’s right, GIRLSCHOOL, and anyone who was ignorant or stupid enough to think that these ladies had taken up a lighter path of musical resistance can now beat themselves repeatedly in shame and prepare to pony up the cash to buy a slice of their deliciously filthy, cheeky, chunky, sweaty and addictive rifferama via new forthcoming album Guilty As Sin. Now I dunno how it was here, but when I was a pup in single digits fighting acne and mullets, we would brandish the tennis racket for all riffing duties, and let me tell you, Guilty As Sin will wear out TWO rackets at least, and if you’re ill-prepared, speakers will be blown. I’m not joking, you can smell this album, and that’s a damn fine thing…

METAL BLOG - by Steff Chirazi

Oh the glories of summer! School’s out, work has hopefully given birth to a few vacation weeks, and festival season is upon us. I mean, there are festivals and then there are FEST-I-VALS, tribal gatherings which are about a lot more than bands and stages, they’re about memories and moments and metal and madness and making friends from all corners of this square flat planet we call Earth (what? It’s round? And you cannot have corners on round things? Well you can…anyway)…which brings us to W:O:A 2015, the 26th annual Wacken Festival and a tribal gathering of the sort that would make the United Nations seem very singular. From India to Indiana to Innsbruck, fans make their way as much for the friendship and parties as the music, though the music is pretty damn great too …