Heavy Metal Road Trip: Iceland Southern Route
Iceland attracts a lot of specialized tourism. Some people come just for volcanoes, or for glaciers, or for the sagas. Now with big festivals like...
Icelandic Bands to Watch Meta-List
Right now everyone is caught up in year-end listmania, but a while back, there was a spate of “Ten Icelandic Bands to Watch.” They caught...
Iceland Airwaves is so Metal
Iceland Airwaves is rightly known as one of the premier indie music festivals in Europe (the world?). So I’m not sure how I managed to...
Turandot is Death Metal Opera
I often harp on the irrelevance of genre distinctions, but even I have to admit that some musical tastes are incongruous; for example, opera and...
My First NW Terror Fest
I moved to Seattle for the music. But for all its musical history, Seattle has always been a little weak in the heavy metal department....