Violence in movies is awesome. Denying this fact is un-American and has the potential to turn this country into a land of sissies who prance around all day talking about pointless topics in high voices. The people of ancient Sparta recognized this and took it to the extreme by throwing weak babies off cliffs and encouraging the surviving children to beat each other up to prove their strength.
With their latest album, Blood Stained Love Story, making an appearance on the Billboard 200, Saliva showcases what they've done over the past 10 years. Starting from Texas, Saliva took to the road with Crossfade in order to promote Blood Stained Love Story.
This isn't really so much a restaurant review as it is a date review, because I am going to comment on both dinner and a movie. The movie is recent Best Picture winner The Departed. To say that it is the worst thing that has ever happened to me in my entire life is an understatement.
Machine Head has been around for a long time, but with the release of their new album, The Blackening, the band strives toward putting forth a degree of intensity that they have never exhibited to date. The Blackening is raw and heavy, and reflects on obvious influences such as Pantera and thrash.
As a kid, most of my favorite heroes were from DC Comics. There is a good reason for this, too. The difference between the heroes of DC and the heroes of Marvel (and e-mail me if you disagree so I can put you down and make you feel stupid) is the fact that that DC heroes are more iconic.