All Hail West Texas may be the quintessential Mountain Goats album. An expanded reissue of a 2002 release, it was the last in their classic lo-fi style, featuring just head Goat John Darnielle making one-take recordings onto a broken boombox. The chief virtue is the immediacy that courses through tracks like “The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton” and “Fall of the Star High School Running Back”. Darnielle's tableaux of Texas characters like the piratical “Jenny” and the drifter of “Distant Stations” are sketched with skill.
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Video: Film trailers for the latest releases
Sunday 09 June 2013
Watch the videos below for a selection of trailers for the latest releases:
Video: Film trailers for the latest releases
Friday 07 June 2013
Watch the videos below for a selection of trailers for the latest releases:
Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman died of alcohol-related cirrhosis - not flesh eating disease caused by spider bite
Friday 10 May 2013
Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman's cause of death has been established by a coroner as alcohol-related cirrhosis of the liver – and not as a result of flesh-eating disease Necrotizing fasciitis as previously reported.
The year the grains failed
Thursday 11 October 2012
Families are going hungry in the developing world after calamitous weather conditions decimated harvests. Michael McCarthy reports
Murderous Instincts, The Savoy, London
Friday 08 October 2004
A camp delight - just be sure to have a mojito first
RADIO / Gospel according to Tap: Robert Hanks listens to a history of heavy metal and a reconstruction of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial
Tuesday 24 August 1993
SUMMING up the Chicago Conspiracy Trial in last night's reconstruction on Radio 4, one of the participants said: 'We saw, perhaps, the evil of banality, the danger of mindlessness, and the danger of banality fused to muscle.'
MUSIC / Riffs: Anthrax's Scott Ian discusses Ministry's free-form sexfest 'So What'
Thursday 19 August 1993
'I saw Ministry eight or nine times last year; I'd go down in the pit and just lose my mind to this song.
Death Metal music does not deprave, court rules
Thursday 30 July 1992
THE ROCK MUSIC cult Death Metal may be loud and gloomy but it does not corrupt or deprave, magistrates decided yesterday.
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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