Weekend Rock List: Most Gruesome Band Names Because Halloween is right around the corner, this week’s Rock List focuses on bands that are more horrifying than the entire Nightmare on Elm Street series. To honor those groups that frighten the hell out of you before you can even hit “Play” (and those that even make Nas’ new album title seem tame) hit us up with your favorite gruesome band names. Here are five that make us listen with the lights on: Alien Sex Fiend Carcass Cannibal Corpse Flesh Eaters Christian Death [Photo: Dalle/Retna]
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Published: 2007-10-27
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock Lists
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Reunited Legendary Swedish Metallers At the Gates Open Final Tour in NYC Wading through a sold out Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza last night, every conversation sounded the same: endless variations on “I can’t believe I’m actually seeing At the Gates.” After twelve years of inactivity, a time during which the band’s stature has soared stratospherically in the metal world, the Swedish melodic death metal pioneers reformed this summer for a tour, supposedly the band’s last. Among metal fans, it is the equivalent of Pavement getting back together. At the Gates went out at the top of its game in 1996, a year after releasing Slaughter of the Soul, an album now seen as one of the best of its kind, and almost single-handedly inspired a modern day melodic metal movement that continues to thrive; any given Ozzfest over the last decade has featured numerous At the Gates knockoffs. When the band came onstage and ripped into the album’s title track, shit predictably went nuts. For 65 furious minutes, the band performed nearly all of its landmark album interspersed with songs from its previous releases. Guitarists Anders Björler and Martin Larsson riffed together on “Suicide Nation” with a sharp fluidity, and vocalist Tomas Lindberg barked through “Blinded by Fear” in a forceful tone he wasn’t quite capable of in the band’s heyday, when he was a mere 23 years old. Despite a suffocating mosh pit, it was a remarkably jubilant show: a sea of pumped fists, sweaty, smiling faces, and an audience screaming along with every word. As far as reunions go, it was damn near flawless — especially for music this intense. The gauntlet has been thrown down for Carcass’ return from hibernation this fall, but that’s a metal history lesson for another time.
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Published: 2008-07-10
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock News, Live Shows
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Rock List: The Twenty Most Gruesome Band Names Last week, in honor of All Hallow’s Eve, we asked you what bands had the most gruesome, blood-curdling monikers. After reading through all your Stephen King-like reader comments (some of you kids need psychiatric help), it’s with shaky typing and petrified pride that we present our list of the Twenty Most Gruesome Band Names: 1. Cattle Decapitation 2. Dahmer’s Icebox 3. Alien Sex Fiend 4. Chainsaw Surgery 5. My Bloody Valentine 6. Southern Death Cult 7. Cannibal Corpse 8. Christian Death 9. Revolting Cocks 10. Black Sabbath 11. diSEMBOWELMENT 12. Necrocannibalistic Vomitorium 13. Dogs Die In Hot Cars 14. Throbbing Gristle 15. Carcass 16. Pig Destroyer 17. Nosferatu 18. Flesh Eaters 19. …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead 20. Hootie & The Blowfish
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Published: 2007-10-30
Provider: Rolling Stone
Keywords: Rock Lists
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