Anthrax: My Top 10 Songs
The only band representing the East Coast in thrash metal’s “Big 4,” this New York-based outfit is just as comfortable with party rockers as they are with supernatural epics. Although they may be the Big […]
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Slayer: My Top 10 Songs
With blistering tempos, savage vocals, and wailing solos, these gentlemen have solidified themselves as the most brutal of thrash metal’s “Big 4.” Inspiring the darkest and heaviest metal subgenres, they’ve managed to inject plenty of […]
Puscifer: My Top 10 Songs
What began as joke band on Mr. Show with Bob and David then morphed into a trip-hop solo project for Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan, before settling into a full-fledged band. A kind of repository […]
Testament: My Top 10 Songs
These stalwarts of the Bay Area thrash scene may not be as famous as Metallica or Megadeth, but you could argue they’ve been more consistent. Still very much active, they’ve matched sociopolitical sagas with driving, […]
Metallica: My Top 10 Songs
As the most financially successful (and perhaps most recognizable) metal band of all time, these California thrashers brought the metal genre to the masses, earning kudos with the underground as well as the mainstream. While […]
Ranking the Auteurs: Hayao Miyazaki, Worst to Best
Miyazaki makes the kinds of movies one doesn’t just praise, but cherish. For my money, he’s not just the greatest anime filmmaker; he eclipses pioneers like Walt Disney as the finest director to work […]