This guest post comes from Genji from Los Angeles. Look for more metal/punk posts from our California correspondent… On a slow Tuesday night in Hollywood, Decibel
While I was out running around SE Asia, my partner in ‘Mile High Metal crime’, Brian H, attended the Volbeat show at The Gothic Theatre.
The words ‘southern lord‘, accompanied by an image of a horned creature with a hook and a pentagram, can’t help but dispatch the mind to the fiery netherworld of the fallen one; the scapegoat for all that is vile, revolting and just plain evil in this world, including the unholy sounds of heavy metal music. So you might be surprised to hear that the Los Angeles-based label, known for it’s focus on the ‘doom, stoner and drone’ sub genres of metal, was not named after Satan, The Devil, Shaitan or any other such figure, but instead after a certain ‘fruit, spice and whiskey flavored liqueur‘ invented by a bartender in New Orleans well over 100 years ago. Southern Lord was the name bestowed on a fledgling record label by it’s father, the Southern Comfort swillin’ guitarist for Thorr’s Hammer and Burning Witch, Greg Anderson, because he thought ‘it sounded cool‘.
When I interviewed Patterson Hood before this Drive-By Trucker weekend in Denver, I asked him about the ‘harsh realities‘ of the road. Those realities that
This guest post comes from Genji from Los Angeles. Look for more metal/punk posts from our California correspondent… Sunday evening I was at the Echo/Echoplex
Patterson Hood was kind enough to take a few minutes out of his busy schedule to answer some questions about The Go-Go Boots Tour, our
‘Black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow‘. ‘pretty boy swag, pretty boy swag, pretty boy swag‘. It’s not every Sunday morning I wake
This guest post comes from Genji from Los Angeles. Look for more metal/punk posts from our California correspondent… For the past few years Scion has
This is a show I wasn’t going to attend and a review that wasn’t going to be written. And to be honest, this is more
