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Breaking Benjamin “Dark Before Dawn” Broken Down
A jet black spawn of the alt-metal cesspool in the late Nineties, Breaking Benjamin is one band still slithering nearly two decades later shedding skin after skin repelling the pop-rap plague.
Not only are they surviving, nay, they are excelling...
Full Dart Jacket: A Post-Holiday Nerf Fanatic Flashback
In homesteads over the country the air is thick with fresh neoprene and erratic howls of hysteria as a direct result of a full-fledged Nerf blitzkrieg.
Hyper-intensive reconnaissance isn’t required to know that giving one of these timeless toy guns to an adolescence boy for the holidays is a guaranteed gifting victory...
The Fantastical Facial Hair of Civil War Generals
Constantly bearded brothers and novice no-shave Novemberists alike curtail the usual sling of the blade or swipe of the electric and prime those facial follicles for a retro re-awakening.
Spice Up Your Halloween with these Under-Appreciated Superheroe & Super Villain Costume Ideas
There are few fictional dreamscapes that hold within them such an expansive breadth of settings and characters as the combined (or individual) DC and Marvel Universes.
Judas Priest’s Iron Fists Pulverize the Ford Center
On Wednesday night in Evansville, the dark was deeper and the autumn leaves exuded an extra fetid perfume of death all as a gift to the metal gods preparing to perform.
Prior to the Priest, a humorously hedonistic band of four boys from L...
Ich Bin Ein Beerliner: German Beer Choices in the Spirit of Oktobeerfest
While technically the 16 day brew bash that is Oktoberfest in Munich is over, the spirit of Oktoberfest still hangs in the air like a fresh fall fog.
This fog is crisp and refreshing just like the typical Oktoberfest beer. The modern Oktoberfest beer is similar in color and consistency to the American Lager...
Grindcore & More for the Gridiron – Top 10 Metal Songs to Get You Pumped Before a Football Game
Time and time again the argument arises in masculine circles boasting footballs superiority over America’s original game because of its inherent (but questionable) testosterone-soaked mayhem.
It’s a play on nature’s own men’s game - bashing skulls, punching, kicking and clawing for territory or females...