In four cartoon panels, the always-brilliant Oatmeal has summed up the problem and solution to the current music biz. Normally, this would take craploads of paragraphs to explain — and it wouldn’t be nearly as amusing. Check it out by clicking the screenshot below:
Jon Schaffer of Iced Earth sat down with the Metalluminati’s Audriana Gates in Tempe, Arizona on the second week of their summer tour with Volbeat and Hellyeah. Schaffer discussed his views on the present-day music biz, the future of record labels, and even his own future plans for Iced Earth to have their own label. …
Anti-religious sentiment has been a hallmark of metal since the genre was born. And in the decades since then, anti-religious tirades by metal musicians have gotten rather tired and predictable. But last year, the metal blogosphere was taken aback by Janaza, a purported “anti-Islamic black metal band fronted by a female in Iraq” who introduced …