HISTORY OF METAL zine

i feel like once you've made it to the drop nobody is allowed to be mad. they had like three whole minutes to be mad but now that time is over

the missing link between Big Black esque 80s noise rock and 90s midwest emo. spooky scary but also sentimental

i think it's important for children to spend a lot of time bored out of their minds visiting relatives in very old houses crammed full of old family stuff and forced to examine the old stuff due to there being nothing else to do and it concerns me how people in my family keep moving into new builds

everything good about my psyche is predicated on a childhood spent thumbing through semi-interesting reference materials

the fat stack of weird old paperbacks and your aunt perming your mom's hair is how great writers are made. i don't think culturally we've developed any substitute

you should check out my video if you haven't already bc its pretty amusing. also the next video will have a hilarious and genuinely unscripted pratfall

both great writers, neither exactly subject matter experts

a weird thing i've noticed about rock criticism from the '70s (thinking of Lester Bangs and Robert Christgau here) is that those guys weirdly didn't know what guitar feedback is--they pretty consistently say "feedback" when they mean "distortion"

YouTube video by bellmetal a defense of messy music

I just launched a youtube channel with my first video essay:
A Defense of Messy Music, where i talk about hellhammer, the meat puppets, flipper, and why they're all so good

youtu.be/sj3JGR15zSY?...

tasteful lighting and considered posing

i think i own like 2 band t shirts but only because i hate wearing t shirts in general lol

YouTube video by bellmetal a defense of messy music

I just launched a youtube channel with my first video essay:
A Defense of Messy Music, where i talk about hellhammer, the meat puppets, flipper, and why they're all so good

youtu.be/sj3JGR15zSY?...

hi sorry i took so long to see this--Vol 7 is currently unavailable due to a technical issue, and i also can't ship internationally at the moment

(in case you're wondering what's behind the patreon paywall, its none other than my acclaimed History of Heavy Metal zine series, currently being republished online for just 2 bucks a month)

thud and blunder | bellmetal Get more from bellmetal on Patreon

just wrote a free blog post where i announce a new project and talk about AC/DC, "All Right Now", and the power of the Thud Riff

www.patreon.com/posts/thud-a...

the style has had pretty amazing staying power. its in that rarefied space where the "revival" has lasted longer than the original thing did, at which point we begin to wonder if its not a revival at all and maybe the whole thing's just immortal

the midwest is really far away | bellmetal Get more from bellmetal on Patreon

wrote a messy meditation on midwest emo on the free part of the blog:

www.patreon.com/posts/midwes...

the dismemberment plan | bellmetal Get more from bellmetal on Patreon

new (free) post:

i just wrote a weird little review of the first Dismemberment Plan album, a literary noise pop masterpiece that i highly recommend to fans of Bob Dylan, Ramshackle Glory, Pavement, and... Raymond Chandler?
www.patreon.com/posts/dismem...

Just made it to volume 2 in there (of 7 and counting), good way to check out the series IMO

(also i post some random other stuff too, got some rants on pop punk and emo percolating rn)

Get more from bellmetal on Patreon laid down my soul to the gods rock and roll

I've been pretty offline lately, but I just wanna remind everyone that the History of Heavy Metal zine is now available on Patreon; I'm slowly posting the entire series there at a rate of five posts a week, for just 2 bucks a month

www.patreon.com/c/BadgerChibo

double nickels is literally the best guitar album of the 80s. better than any shred or metal album (and the guy ran 012s. monstrous.)

the second best double album of the 80s (after Double Nickels on the Dime of course)

luv the skirt

rockcrit and modernity | bellmetal Get more from bellmetal on Patreon

just wrote a bonus free blog post about modernity and postmodernity in rock, punk, and metal

www.patreon.com/posts/rockcr...

a top 3: Sinawe's *Heavy Metal Sinawe*, Baekdoosan's *Too Fast! Too Loud! Too Heavy!, Boohwal's *Rock Will Never Die*

bonus free blog post today about my insane attempt to do this

www.patreon.com/posts/korean...

whats a man to do but find out whether its true

currently attempting to listen to every Korean metal album from the '80s. probably impossible to totally verify if i succeed but i think I'm actually most of the way there.

probably the funniest and most obvious lie i've encountered in the entirety of my research (though i don't think he stuck with it over time)

History of Heavy Metal zine excerpt: Black Sabbath | bellmetal Get more from bellmetal on Patreon

SOME ZINE NEWS:

a) the zine is currently unavailable outside of north america (sorry)

b) its probably going out of print soon (temporarily)

c) its now being republished on patreon, where it can now be read for just $2 a month (5 posts a week!)

www.patreon.com/posts/histor...