The first disturbing event of first-year university was the day I went to meet a childhood friend of mine when he was discharged from the insane asylum.
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Happy 60th Birthday, Henry Rollins
Posted in Pretensions toward cultural theory, Real Men, resistance training with tags Asylum, Cronos, Judith Herman, King Lear, Morbid Angel, Rollins Band, Slayer, The End of Silence, The Palace St Kilda, Trauma and Recovery on February 28, 2021 by Jarrod Boyle
Modern Love
Posted in Music, Pretensions toward cultural theory, Slayer with tags Appetite for Destruction, Axl Rose, Biffy Clyro, Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Howard Stern, Jackson Pollock, Modern Love, Sex Pistols, Slash, Slayer, The Stooges, Tom Araya, Tommy Iommi on April 10, 2019 by Jarrod Boyle
New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements… the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. ”
-Jackson Pollock
Biffy Clyro, Scottish alternative band, recently produced a cover version of David Bowie’s song ‘Modern Love’ for The Howard Stern David Bowie Tribute Album. The transformation is radical, and no doubt confronting for those who remember the original. Continue reading
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A Eulogy For the Scariest Spectacle in Rock
Posted in Music, Observation, Real Men, Slayer with tags Angel of Death, Beastie Boys, Def Jam, Hell Awaits, Jeff Hanneman, License to Ill, Los Angeles Times, Metallica, Raising Hell, Reign in Blood, Rolling Stones, Run DMC, Satan, Show No Mercy, Slayer on July 3, 2016 by Jarrod Boyle
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“…The scariest spectacle in rock is Slayer, the Rolling Stones of the new American metal.”
– Los Angeles Times, 1991
Every real band has done a classic album tour. While limited to North America, Slayer did a series of dates playing their seminal thrash album, Reign in Blood, in its entirety. The performance reached its climax when the stage and musicians were immersed in a torrential downpour of blood. Continue reading
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Alex Perekrest and Red Giant – 4
Posted in Music, Real Men with tags Art of Self-Defense, Black Sabbath, High on Fire, Jason Everman, Nirvana, Ozzy, Seasons in the Abyss, Slayer, Soundgarden on November 7, 2015 by Jarrod Boyle
You posted a very interesting article about Jason Everman, a former guitar player for both Nirvana and Soundgarden who, after his tenure concluded with both those bands, joined the special-forces and served in a number of theatres of war. He described war as being a ‘theatre of schooling for the heart.’ What do you think about that? Continue reading
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Jeff Hanneman: RIP
Posted in Obituary, Real Men, Slayer with tags Jeff Hanneman, Slayer on May 2, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
Glorious Chaos
Posted in Music, Observation with tags Beth Ditto, Buzz Osborne, Conan the Barbarian, death metal, Dimmu Borgir, Dungeons and Dragons, High on Fire, Mad Max III, Matt Pike, Motorhead, Satanism, Scandinavia, Slayer, SoundWave Festival, The Gossip, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Melvins on January 25, 2014 by Jarrod Boyle
“What I’ve always loved about heavy metal is that it’s rebel music.”
-Buzz Osborne,
The Melvins
http://www.avclub.com/article/melvins-buzz-osborne-picks-songs-by-bands-that-wer-200741
I first saw High on Fire at the Soundwave festival in 2010. Continue reading
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Jeff Hanneman – Obituary
Posted in Music, Real Men with tags Jeff Hanneman, Slayer, The Guardian Newspaper on May 6, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
Jeff Hanneman’s obituary, as published in ‘The Guardian’. A suitably loquacious obit about the lion’s share of the creative brains that will drive Slayer into the pantheon of rock and roll greats.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/may/03/jeff-hanneman-slayer
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RIP JEFF HANNEMAN – 1964-2013
Posted in Music, Real Men, Slayer with tags Dissident Aggressor, Jeff Hanneman, Slayer, South of Heaven on May 3, 2013 by Jarrod Boyle
Jeff Hanneman, guitarist of the magnificent, soaring, crushing, excoriating speed metal band Slayer, has died aged 49.
One of the high points of my kickboxing career was walking out to the song ‘Dissident Aggressor’ from South of Heaven.
I trained to it this morning.
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Top Ten Songs
Posted in Music, Observation with tags ACDC, Appetite for Destruction, Bon Scott, Bruce Dickinson, Chris Robinson, Disciple, Exile on Main Street, Guns and Roses, Hallowed Be Thy Name, Henry Rollins, Iron Maiden, Jeff Buckley, Jimi Hendrix, Joy Division, Little Wing, Lou Reed Margot Timmins, Love Will Tear Us Apart, Motorhead, Nirvana, NME, Poison Idea, Queens of the Stone Age, Slayer, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Ace of Spades, The Black Crowes, The Cowboy Junkies, The End of Silence, The Gaslight Anthem, The New York Dolls, The Rolling Stones, The Stooges, The Velvet Underground, Two Lane Blacktop, War Ensemble, Welcome to the Jungle on July 3, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
NME have celebrated their 60th birthday by compiling a list of the 100 greatest tracks of the magazine’s lifetime. Continue reading
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The Devil’s Music
Posted in Reading, Slayer with tags Born of Fire, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Seasons in the Abyss, Slayer, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, William Blake on April 11, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle 
One of my absolute favourite pieces of writing – ever – is William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Please check it out at the link – the text has been reproduced with some of Blake’s actual illustrations. Continue reading
