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  Bullet For My Valentine - Hand Of Blood

  The Welsh band Bullet For My Valentine is slowly becoming the new must listen to metal band. I found out about them thru the UK’s Metal Hammer magazine (where’s my UK readers, and why haven’t you told me about these guys?). Although Read More... Posted Monday, December 12, 2005 4:51 PM by donxml | 3 Comments

  Filed under: Old School Metal, Metal
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  My Home on Last.FM

  Peter Provost and Steve Pavlina both have mentioned the Pandora Music Service which will allow you to create a customized streaming radio channel based on artists and songs that you enter into the system. I have to admit that the Pandora user interface Read More... Posted Friday, December 09, 2005 11:18 AM by donxml | 3 Comments

  Filed under: Old School Metal, Metal, Pop Punk, Punk, Stoner Rock, Hard Rock
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  Return Of Old School Metal

  Brad Wilson was lamenting over the lack of decent metal bands out there. He feels a lot like me, loves the metal, but can not stand the recent trend of “Oscar the Grouch” vocals (I also call them Cookie Monster vocals). Classic thrash metal Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 29, 2005 4:15 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

  Filed under: Old School Metal, Metal
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  My Home On MySpace

  I’ve had a MySpace account for a while, and have a link from there to here, but I never did the inverse. So here it is . And I’ll add a link to it on my site. MySpace has a “friends” list, and if you are a friend, a band I like, Read More... Posted Monday, September 12, 2005 1:52 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

  Filed under: Old School Metal, Metal, Pop Punk, Punk, Grrl Rock, Stoner Rock, Blues, Hard Rock
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  Relive the late 80’s Jersey Music Scene – April 30th, 2005

  If you are old enough to remember the great music scene Jersey had back in the late 80’s, then you probably remember the bands American Angel and Xenon . Xenon had a few reunion shows over the last couple years, but if you missed them, then you Read More... Posted Sunday, April 10, 2005 8:03 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

  Filed under: Old School Metal, Metal, Hard Rock
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  Upcoming Metal Releases

  I’ve been in a musical funk for the last couple months, and haven’t been able to really get into any of the new CDs I bought over that time. Here’s a few of what I bought, and really couldn’t get into (even though some of these Read More... Posted Monday, February 28, 2005 2:18 PM by donxml | 6 Comments

  Filed under: Old School Metal, Metal, Pop Punk, Grrl Rock, Hard Rock
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  Book Review: Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal

  What’s a book review doing in my music blog? Well this book is about the history of metal, and even though it is a well written book (and not just some fanzine type stuff), I decided to put the review here instead of my book review category. Sound Read More... Posted Thursday, February 05, 2004 6:50 AM by donxml | 1 Comments

  Filed under: Old School Metal, Metal
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  Anthrax - We've Come For You All

  Anthrax We’ve Come For You All My Score: 10 out of 10 Category: Metal/Old School Metal Buy it Here I don’t give out a perfect 10 for CDs very often, even if I think it is a great release. To be rated a 10 by me, it first and foremost has to be a perfect Read More... Posted Monday, November 24, 2003 2:02 PM by donxml | 5 Comments

  Filed under: Old School Metal, Metal