Slayer 4:30 p.m. Aug. 16 The Zoo Amphitheatre 2101 NE 50th St. thezooamphitheatre.com 800-514-3849 $42-$195 Released in October 1986, Reign in Blood was Slayer’s third full-length studio album, but for many soon-to-be-converted metalheads in the decades since, it remains their first exposure to a lifelong obsession. “Slayer’s like the gateway drug into metal for a […]
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Shawn James and The Shapeshifters bring burly act to Norman Music Festival
The Shapeshifters’ brand of swampy blues is informed by a background in metal.
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Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe brings time-honored heavy metal show back to OKC
In a time of great change in the music industry, Lamb of God remains one of heavy metal’s constants.
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Chicken-Fried News: Metal gear
Some Twitter users had a huge problem with fashion-conscious Russell Westbrook sporting a Slayer shirt at a game recently.
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Jack the Giant Slayer
The film’s fatal mistake? Perhaps it was director Bryan Singer embracing the 19th-century nature of the story as tightly as he did Richard Donner’s Superman: The Movie for his own Superman Returns. These days, to satisfy family audiences, it’s evidently not enough to revive an old-fashioned tale; you have to hip it up with nods […]
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Chug along
From The Byrds to The Band, country-inspired folk rock played a huge part in the path Last Train Home has taken since forming in 1997. So did Slayer and Megadeth. For seven years, bandleader Eric Brace was a Washington Post music columnist before quitting to focus on his burgeoning roots-rock outfit. The time he spent […]
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Noisy Baby
History doesn’t foretell too much in the case of Baby Tears. The noise-rock trio from Omaha, Neb., possesses an unpredictable track record of gigs that makes it impossible to pinpoint exactly where the next one will go. “There is no typical show with us,” said guitarist/vocalist Todd VonStup. “It’s unstructured in a good sense. Sometimes […]
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Get in the car
The University of Oklahoma welcomes the printmaking duo Satan’s Camaro for a three-week exhibit, “Medieval Techno Show.” The brainchild of East Coast university art professors Justin Strom and Lenore Thomas, the prints are on display through Oct. 21 in OU’s Lightwell Gallery in the Fred Jones Art Center, 520 Parrington Oval in Norman. Both artists […]