Barn Burner
By MaryAnn Bayer
Barnburner: barn·burn·er bärn bûr n r
n. Informal. An extremely impressive event or successful outcome.
Impressive indeed. Hailing from Canada or Canadia if I’m drunk, Barn Burner is my perfect summer metal band. Full of Twin Guitar slayings AND fuzzy garage distortion, the perfectly titled ‘Bangers’ (or “Bangahs” if your me and from Massachusetts) re-released [...]
Hellbent For Cooking
By MaryAnn Bayer
This weeks band of the week isn’t a band at all. It’s a book. Hellbent For Cooking by Annick “Morbid Chef” Giroux. Finally a book intermingling my two favorite things: Food and Heavy Metal. Hellbent was published by Bazillion Points, founded by Ian Christe, author of “Sound of the Beast” and host of [...]
Early Man
By MaryAnn Bayer
In 1987, I discovered Heavy Metal. I was 12 or 13, in 8th grade and had a Best Friend named Gina. Lots of people at school hated Gina, partly because she beat up a girl on her first day of school, but mostly, it was because she was metal. Gina, with her Megadeth [...]
