The Mayhem Machine Includes the Critically Acclaimed Single, "Lo Sweatas" One of Chicago's most respected hip-hop groups, Project Mayhem, has released their sophomore album, "The Mayhem Machine" which includes their critically acclaimed single, "Lo Sweatas." The Mayhem Machine, the much-anticipated follow up to their debut, "More Than Hype," also...
CollegeHumor is a site which features enough distractions to get no work done all day (especially their Jake & Amir series). They do a monthly local show at the UCB Theater (the mecca of alternative comedy in NYC), recently having comedian Adam Newman giving the giggly hipsters in attendance a lesson about some of godfathers [...]
I couldn't resist. I was going back home to Texas for a wedding, and I *happened* to see that Mayhem would be in San Antonio while I'm there. So even though I'd seen the show twice already, I tried my luck and was able to get set up to photograph and review the festival. [...]
Note from Editor: Blackened Fest is no more. Cephalic Carnage, Cattle Decapitation and Withered have dropped off. Mayhem will now complete the rest of the dates alone. We sent roving reporter Justina Villanueva on the road with this summer's darkest tour, Blackenedfest. She was on the front-lines as the entire tour came to a halt [...]
The grimmest tour of the Spring gets underway in less than one month, so be sure to get on your game and get tickets for the MetalSucks co-sponsored BLACKENEDFEST now, before they sell out! The spikey-armband-studded lineup features Marduk, Cephalic Carnage, Cattle Decapitation and Withered, and is headlined by none other than the Norwegian kings [...]
We sent roving reporter Justina Villanueva on the road with this summer's darkest tour, Blackenedfest. She will be checking in constantly with dispatches from the tour. Catch up with all her tour diaries, as well as a ton of photos at the Blackenedfest hub.Day 1First lesson of the tour: If the tour manager gives you [...]
In tracing a lineage of the second wave of black metal, it is usually most instructive to start with Bathory's Under the Sign of the Black Mark and Mayhem's Deathcrush. This 1987 EP is an unusual artifact in the genre as it more closely resembles death metal as opposed to what we consider "black metal" today. The other remarkable thing about this release is that it was Mayhem's much-vaunted off...
Varg Vikernes has spent the past 16 years in a Norwegian prison after being convicted of the infamous 1993 murder of Mayhem guitarist Oystein Aarseth and arson of 3 churches. Only weeks ago, however, Vikernes was told he will now be released on...
In tracing a lineage of the second wave of black metal, it is usually most instructive to start with Bathory's Under the Sign of the Black Mark and Mayhem's Deathcrush. This 1987 EP is an unusual artifact in the genre as it more closely resembles death metal as opposed to what we consider "black metal" today. The other remarkable thing about this release is that it was Mayhem's much-vaunted off...