Authors: Bryer Wharton
Fear Factory @ Club Sound
Fear Factory is one of those bands I’d do anything to see live, no matter how many times I’ve seen them before. I started listening to Fear Factory as a teenager, and despite some lackluster albums, line-up changes and even a period of being officially broken up, I’ve always been a fan for reasons that I cannot fully comprehend. … read more
Serpents of the Midnight Sun: An interview with Nightbringer’s Naas...
On Tuesday June 8th the demonic occult forces that are Green Mountain Falls, Colorado’s Nightbringer will unleash their darkened black metal distortions upon Salt Lake City. Nightbringer focuses on atmospheres as much as they do direct, fast and dirge ridden guitar passages. I got the chance to ask Nightbringer’s frontman Naas Alcament a few questions to explore the depths of their music. … read more
Napalm Flesh: Bring Me Your Metal!
In the first installment of SLUG’s brand new, web-exclusive metal column, Bryer Wharton gives a preview of all of the metal action going down in Salt Lake City this weekend, including a preview of the Summer Slaughter tour featuring Decapitated. … read more
Napalm Flesh: March of Brutality & Pentagrammation
As another weekend approaches, the level of metalness in SLC will grow exponentially from last weekend’s local metal gigs and the Summer Slaughter Tour. Meat Shits, Exodus and Enthroned are all set to hit the city this weekend—be prepared. … read more
Napalm Flesh: One Metal Weekend
The weekend of Aug. 20-22 was one filled with metal, as I visited Club Vegas on Friday, the 20th to see Exodus’ March of Brutality tour, and then witnessed the Pentagrammaton tour featuring Enthroned and Destroyer 666 on Sunday at Bar Deluxe. Hopefully some of you metal fiends were at one of these shows at least. If not, you sorely missed some metal madness and mayhem. … read more
Napalm Flesh: Valdur – Vicious Existence
This week’s blog features an interview with Northern California’s Valdur, who released their second full-length album, Raven God Amongst Us, this week. The new album is eight tracks of tumultuous black metal, or, as Sxuperion sees the band, extreme metal—he doesn’t want to be lumped into the corpse-painted, spike-clad black metal scene. Also included are blog-exclusive and blog-related CD reviews. … read more
Napalm Flesh: My Metalhead Manifesto
This week’s effort features a short round up of some shows happening from today through Saturday and a slew of blog exclusive CD reviews, as well as a metal-anger-fueled rant from myself, because being sick pisses me off. … read more
Napalm Flesh: Calling All Heraldic Beasts
Gear up, grab your sword, prepare your chain mail and polish your shield this week’s Ye Olde Metal Blog features an interview with Grand Master Jaldaboath, the knight behind the absolutely one of a kind band Jaldaboath. Also on tap for this week’s blog are some extended reviews of new albums from U.S. Christmas and Death Angel. … read more
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Napalm Flesh: Glorious Horror
In case you hadn’t heard, the masters of horror-themed theatrical metal, the mighty Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie, are coming to the USANA Amphitheater on Oct. 4. This week’s blog gives a glimpse into the sure spectacle of what the show featuring the gruesome twosome may (or should) entail, as well a rundown of the slew of shows going down this week and the usual cavalcade of blog exclusive CD reviews. … read more
Napalm Flesh: Double Bill
Get your rundown of two fantastic shows that happened in the last week with reviews of the Rob Zombie/Alice Cooper tour as well as the Thrones and Christian Mistress tour, complete with pictures from both events. As usual, read on for a rundown of just about everything metallic that going down concert wise for the upcoming week. Also on tap are some CD reviews that didn’t make the print issue of the October SLUG. … read more