Sunday, May 5, 2013

Bill Ward & Joel Gausten Discuss "Straws" (Audio)

A very Happy 65th Birthday to the kindest man in Heavy Metal, MR. BILL WARD! Here is a six-minute excerpt from my most recent interview with Bill, conducted in 2011 for my Glory Is Noise radio show:




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Thursday, May 2, 2013

Jeff Hanneman RIP

How many people can you say truly helped to build and personify a genre of music? Slayer is to Thrash what The Ramones are to Punk. For many of us, they were the starting point to the heaviest style of music in the world and the standard by which all other Thrash is measured. Jeff Hanneman - as brutally intense and influential as they come. Damn, that guy will be missed.


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