Heavy Metal Music News
 Pandora: Holy intervention on monastic retreat (Independent) The decision by a monk to snub the opportunity to become the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales could be overruled by the Holy See.
Hidenori Inoue takes a stab at Richard III (The Japan Times) During his final year at Osaka University of Arts in 1980, Hidenori Inoue founded the Gekidan★Shinkansen theater company with several classmates. The 48-year-old native of Fukuoka in Kyushu hasn't looked back since. "I got a huge response from audiences early on," he told The Japan Times recently, "and because applause is a hard thing to turn away fromI have continued as a stage director for ...
Judges can both help, hinder families (The Manchester Enterprise) Understanding this article is going to be published during the week of Christmas and that I have planned on this being an article on judges, I decided to mesh them into something in part festive ... Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus when it comes to family law.
January 1-7, 2009 (Boulder Weekly) Burning music What do an invisible gorilla and the death of the music industry have in common? by Dale Bridges
Reflections of Metallica: A Discourse on Metal (Blogcritics.org) To save heavy metal, Metallica must finally just fade away into their glorious past. There are two distinct factions in the very divided Metallica fan base that exists today. On the one side resides those of the long haired, ripped jeans, and classic concert t-shirt wearing ilk. They are a beer drinking, joint smoking, devil-horn raising, tribe of metal fans of yore who swear by the band's ...
Avoid headbanging injury by switching to Celine Dion? (News-Medical-Net) Australian researchers have issued a warning about the danger of "head-banging" which is usually associated with heavy-metal music.
Britain's Eternal Holiday Peal (Washington Post) Bell-ringing is a storied and distinctly U.K. art form echoed by pockets of followers worldwide.
The Long, Noisy Tradition of British Bell-Ringing (Washington Post) RUSHDEN, England -- With snowy whiskers and a rotund frame, Alan Marks seems a fitting Santa to bring cheer to the good folk of this small English town 70 miles north of London. His festive gift is the sound of bells -- not the anemic tinkle of sleigh bells, but the joyous, dancing peal of a...
Heavy metal music makes cautious comeback in Egypt (Reuters via Yahoo! News) The mostly black-clad crowd goes wild in a frenzy of slam dancing to the music of heavy metal band Black Sabbath, played by Egyptian rockers on a placid bank of the Nile river.
Christmas isn't over until they say it is (Toronto Star) It's easy to spot Trans-Siberian Orchestra musical director/guitarist Al Pitrelli backstage following the band's late-November concert at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. He's the one wearing a bulky knee brace and hopping around on metal crutches.
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