The Rim Of Hell

So it’s a slow news day & then I found this amusing link on Fark.com, which in turn sends one to the WNEP website who originally broke it.  This one’s a love story, I think – but you be the judge.
It would seem a sexy female pirate statue outside of an antique shop in Girardville, [...]

Thanks to Sin’s Metal News for this one – below is the new video off of ‘Twilight of the Thunder God’ by those angry Norsemen, Amon Amarth.  Featuring guest vocals by Lars Goran Petrov of Entombed.  Yeah, it’s awesome.
Big arms, everyone.  Big arms.

Y’know, Sundays bum me out sometimes. They always seem to me to be the death of the weekend, the last agonizing throes of freedom before the weekly gauntlet is to be run on Monday morning. Fuckin’ ray of sunshine, ain’t I?
Worse, I usually have to go in to work for a [...]

Another great show at the Ravari room, this time an eclectic triple bill featuring punk-infused bluegrass and decent psychobilly.  Here’s how it shook out;
Hellsfire Sinners – were first up and played a great full set of their unusual mixture of bluegrass, country, punk with a touch of metal thrown in for good measure.  This is [...]

Here’s your chance to jam with Matt Cameron, drummer for Pearl Jam on the Xbox Live (must be a Gold member) playing Rock Band 2.  Seriously, how cool would that be?
Friend: “What You Do Last Night?”
You: “Oh, jammed with Matt Cameron. . . y’know, played a little ‘Aqualung’”
Friend: “Nuh-uh”
You’re right, no one would believe you.  [...]

Blabbermouth.net – The third installment of the “trust me. . . I’m a doctor” commercials by Dr. Pepper will be unveiled next week, featuring “Dr. Love” himself – Gene Simmons & son Nick. Follow the link to see some preliminary photos.
Pretty cool actually, because Gene is wearing the armor and codpiece that he wore [...]

RockOnTheRange.com – Third annual edition of what has become THE premiere rock event in the US has announced the day-to-day line-ups for this two day festival May 16th & 17th at Columbus Crew Stadium here in Ohio. And what a line-up! Slipknot, Motley Crue, Korn, Avenged Sevenfold, Alice in Chains, Buckcherry, Shinedown, Static [...]

Papa Roach has an image problem.  When starting to work on this review, I popped their new CD “Metamorphosis” into Winamp & immediately noticed they were categorized as ‘Rap Metal’.   While that might have been true at one point, this is a band that has obviously been influenced by their time on Cruefest (specifically Sixx [...]

You know a man’s busy when he doesn’t even update his blog about St. Patrick’s Day. Now that’s just sad, eh? The Christmas day for alcoholics & mums the word on the ole’ Rim of Hell?
Well, I DID go celebrate the day (OF COURSE!) but have been very busy with the paying gig [...]

This bunch of happy-go-lucky guys is a group called Sanctification. They’re out of Sweden & you can listen to tracks from their forthcoming CD ‘Black Reign’ on Myspace HERE. Good stuff that sounds like maybe somebody has been listening to a few Morbid Angel or Behemoth albums. Guest vocals include Peter Tägtgren [...]