Monthly Archives: December 2023
Only two days are left in the now very old year, so it will not be long before the new, young year is finally here. As the calendar turns from 2023 to 2024, audiences waiting for new music will not have to wait very long for said content, as another new archived concert from The […]
Dec. 21 — Arrow Video will bring renewed attention to Paramount Pictures’ 1971 WWII flick, Murphy’s War early in 2024. The Moby Dick re-imagining of sorts is scheduled for release Jan. 30 on Blu-ray. It centers on its titular character, the single-named Murphy (Peter O’Toole — Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter, The Stunt Man) as he looks to […]
Five years ago, one of the most influential and important bands in the modern history of metal called it quits when the members of Slayer collectively announced the band was calling it a career. The band officially reached the end of its road a year after making the announcement, though founding member and guitarist Kerry […]
More than 40 years ago, 20th Century Studios (nee 20th Century Fox) and director Ridley Scott changed the face of both horror and science fiction when they released the groundbreaking movie, Aliens. The movie brought the genres together and took them in a direction that even the science fiction flicks of the 1950s could ever imagine going, in […]
Forty-four years is a heck of a long time for a musical act of any genre to go between releasing new music. Sure, five years to a decade is becoming increasingly the norm, but more than four decades is pushing it to say the very least. Yet, veteran rock band Kelakos has done just that […]
Between 2019 and 2020, the metal community suffered two big losses when Children of Bodom officially called it a career and then its famed founding member Alexi Laiho died. According to a news release issued by the band at the time of his passing, he had been suffering from long-term health complications leading up to […]
Beings from other worlds have been fodder for so much cinematic fare ever since the advent of the motion picture. From the earliest days of cinema, humans’ attention has constantly been on the stars as “the final frontier.” Yet for the past half century or so, that attention has turned just as much to Earth’s […]
Dec. 15 — Hard rock outfit Like A Storm premiered a reworked version of its single, ‘Sinners & Saints’ this week. The band debuted the slightly re-worked take of the song Friday. The group released the original take of the song in September, only a month after announcing it had signed a new record deal with independent label, Edgeout Records. […]
Dec. 15 — KK’s Priest will make its way to North America early next year and the band will bring some well-known friends along for the ride. The band announced Friday, it will launch the first leg of its 2024 North American headlining tour March 7 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. The tour is scheduled to run […]