metal church

Our resident birdbrain returns to ruffle feathers with a pair of new releases from mainstream “metal” sensations and legendary old-schollers.

Decibel contributor Forrest Pitts takes us to metal church.

Watch a debauched new video from Halcyon Way.

Change was a good thing for each of these heavy metal stalwarts.

Toronto rock journalist Brent Jensen’s No Sleep ‘Til Sudbury is a smart, sweet memoir of the joys and travails of growing up metal in tiny Espanola, Ontario — …A Fine Paper Town, as the welcome sign notes — weaving a portrait of youthful discovery/rebellion into a larger macro story of metal’s mid-eighties coming-of-age moment. It’s…