by theleopardatmythroat
April 14, 2013 09:57 am ·
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Good morning Jrocknyc. 
This post is mandatory, “yeah”?

by gofromjrocknyc
March 13, 2013 11:13 pm · 1
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Amr’s heavy-metal love story is, at least on the surface, textbook: when she was sixteen, someone loaned her a Metallica CD and she never looked back. But this was in Egypt, in 2001, four years after security forces raided the homes of nearly a hundred metalheads, arresting them on spurious occult charges.

http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/03/an-unusual-heavy-metal-love-story.html

Edith, Hellrider, and Dadmonster pose for a photograph. In Botswana, heavy metal music has landed. Metal groups are now performing in nightclubs, concerts, festivals. The ranks of their fans have expanded dramatically. These fans wear black leather pants and jackets, studded belts, boots and cowboy hats. On their t-shirts stand out skulls, obscenities, historical covers of hard-rock groups popular in the seventies and eighties, such as Iron Maiden, Metallica, and AC/DC. They have created their own style, inspired by classic metal symbolism, but also borrowing heavily from the iconography of western films and the traditional rural world of Botswana. Their nicknames, Gunsmoke, Rockfather, Carrott Warmachine, Hellrider, Hardcore, Dignified Queen, may appear subversive and disturbing as their clothing, but they are peaceful and gentle. “We like to get dressed drink, meet friends and feel free, this music is so powerful. We are lucky to live in a country tolerant and open,” argues one of the leaders. A precious rarity for Africa. © Daniele Tamagni, Italy, 2013 Sony World Photography Awards http://m.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/02/the-2013-sony-world-photography-awards/100454/ Always proud to hear about metal spreading to new places. :)
by gofromjrocknyc
February 14, 2013 04:58 pm · 26
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Edith, Hellrider, and Dadmonster pose for a photograph.

In Botswana, heavy metal music has landed. Metal groups are now performing in nightclubs, concerts, festivals. The ranks of their fans have expanded dramatically.

These fans wear black leather pants and jackets, studded belts, boots and cowboy hats. On their t-shirts stand out skulls, obscenities, historical covers of hard-rock groups popular in the seventies and eighties, such as Iron Maiden, Metallica, and AC/DC.

They have created their own style, inspired by classic metal symbolism, but also borrowing heavily from the iconography of western films and the traditional rural world of Botswana. Their nicknames, Gunsmoke, Rockfather, Carrott Warmachine, Hellrider, Hardcore, Dignified Queen, may appear subversive and disturbing as their clothing, but they are peaceful and gentle.

“We like to get dressed drink, meet friends and feel free, this music is so powerful. We are lucky to live in a country tolerant and open,” argues one of the leaders. A precious rarity for Africa.

© Daniele Tamagni, Italy, 2013 Sony World Photography Awards

http://m.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/02/the-2013-sony-world-photography-awards/100454/

Always proud to hear about metal spreading to new places. :)

by gofromjrocknyc
January 4, 2013 05:28 pm · 6
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METAL! 

(Compressorhead - “Ace of Spades”)

via reddit