Tag: Jay H. Gorania
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Is Kuma’s Corner worth visiting? Not really.
by Jay H. Gorania Metal and burgers. If you’re a metalhead who isn’t vegan or vegetarian, that’s a win-win proposition, right? Kuma’s Corner, located in Chicago, has a good reputation, so it seems worth the effort to check it out. Was it worth the effort? Two word assessment: Hell no. (Not on a Saturday night,…
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An open love letter to Teresa Roncon – by Jay H. Gorania
Jay H. Gorania confesses his never-ending admiration for former Much Music metal VJ Teresa Roncon
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Napalm Death – Utilitarian
So, there’s a new Napalm Death album that’s absolutely incredible? That’s about as surprising as the possibility of death and taxes.
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Alex Webster of Cannibal Corpse: The Hellbound Interview
Prominent American senators and presidential hopefuls have pointed their fingers at Cannibal Corpse, implying the band is partially responsible for society falling apart. Murder victim family members have also done the same. Censorship has reared its ugly head in Germany, a nation where the band has been legally prohibited from playing certain songs. And yet…
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Girls gone wild…to Meshuggah!
Good music should move you on some level. These girls are dancing to Meshuggah. No further description is necessary.
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Jay H. Gorania’s SXSW 2012 – Part 2
By Jay H. Gorania Friday, March 16 It seems likely only in some perverse, alternate universe that a former member of Today is the Day would be in a band with a member of Fall Out Boy, but it’s true. It’s Milwaukee’s Enabler. If it wasn’t for the damn crowds and time consuming travel during…
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An open letter, and challenge, to Tommy Lee and Mötley Crüe
I’m Jay H. Gorania, a long time fan from way back when. You might remember me. I wrote you a letter when I was in the second grade in the early ’80s. Your address was available in the pages of some metal magazine. At any rate, I have a bone to pick with y’all. Not…
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Terror / Trapped Under Ice / Backtrack / Harm’s Way / Letlive @ The Pine Box, Midland, TX, November 15, 2011
A hard act to follow, but Terror is an intimidating live act regardless of how someone feels about their music. Frontman Scott Vogel, formerly of the legendary, now-defunct Buried Alive, was in fine more, ruling the crowd that already paid him the blind-eyed devotion that a preacher at church might receive.