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    The Rock 'n' Roll Archives, Volume Three: Heavy Metal
    The Rock 'n' Roll Archives, Volume Three: Heavy Metal
    The Rock 'n' Roll Archives, Volume Three: Heavy Metal
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    The Rock 'n' Roll Archives, Volume Three: Heavy Metal

    By Rev. Keith A. Gordon

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    The Rock ‘n’ Roll Archives is a series collecting vintage artist interviews and record reviews from the archives of award-winning rock critic and music historian Rev. Keith A. Gordon.

    Volume Three of The Rock ‘n’ Roll Archives features interviews with ten heavy metal pioneers as well as reviews of key albums. Among those featured are members of Living Colour, Faith No More, Sepultura, Voivod, Warrior Soul, King's X and others!

    The “Reverend of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Rev. Keith A. Gordon has been writing about music for 45+ years. A former contributor to the All Music Guide books and website, and the former Blues Expert for About.com, Rev. Gordon has written or edited fifteen previous music-related books, including The Other Side of Nashville and Scorched Earth: A Jason & the Scorchers Scrapbook.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRev. Keith A. Gordon
    Release dateJul 4, 2018
    ISBN9780463741658
    The Rock 'n' Roll Archives, Volume Three: Heavy Metal
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    Rev. Keith A. Gordon

    The "Reverend of Rock 'n' Roll," Rev. Keith A. Gordon has almost 50 years in the pop culture trenches. Gordon's work has appeared in over 100 publications worldwide, as well as in several All Music Guide books and on the AMG website, as well as Blurt magazine and the Rock and Roll Globe. Rev. Gordon is the author of nearly two-dozen music-related books including The Other Side of Nashville, a history of the city's rock 'n' roll underground; Blues Deluxe: A Joe Bonamassa Buying Guide; and The Rock 'n' Roll Archives series.

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      The Rock 'n' Roll Archives, Volume Three - Rev. Keith A. Gordon

      THE ROCK ‘N’ ROLL ARCHIVES

      Volume Three: Heavy Metal

      Artist interviews & album reviews from the archives

      of Rev. Keith A. Gordon

      Smashwords Edition • Copyright 2018 • All Rights Reserved

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      Artist Interviews

      • Agony Column

      • Faith No More

      • Killing Joke

      • King’s X

      • Living Colour

      • Sepultura

      • Souls at Zero

      • T.M. Stevens

      • Voivod

      • Warrior Soul

      Album Reviews

      Agony Column – Brave Words and Bloody Knuckles

      Faith No More – King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime

      Killing Joke – Pandemonium

      Living Colour – Vivid

      Living Colour – Live From CBGB

      Sepultura – Chaos A.D.

      Sepultura – Roots

      Souls at Zero – A Taste For the Perverse

      Voivod – The Outer Limits

      Warrior Soul – Last Decade Dead Century

      Introduction: Heavy Metal Thunder

      As a young rock ‘n’ roll fan, I heard the sound of heavy metal thunder on the horizon at an early age. Bands like Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, and Uriah Heep opened the door, through which future favorites like Judas Priest and Thin Lizzy strolled. By the dawn of the ‘80s, I had gotten into artists like Iron Maiden and Mötörhead and, when metal-exclusive labels like Metal Blade and Megaforce launched to document the molten revolution, I was an early writer on their promotional mailing lists.

      Throughout the ‘80s I reviewed a slew of metal LPs and cassettes for Nashville’s The Metro magazine and via syndication for the College Press Service. When I began publishing various music zines like R.A.D! Review and Discussion of Rock ‘n’ Roll and R Squared during the Xerox haze of the ‘90s, heavy metal and hard rock were well represented in the publications’ review sections. When we took our zines digital and began publishing Alt.Culture.Guide™ on the web, my efforts at covering metal music were assisted by talented and insightful writers like Tommy Hash and Ivadd Grimstone. So while I thoroughly reviled the hair metal years and its insulting bands with a passion, there have always been a wealth of metal outfits like Cynic, Candlemass, Death, and Napalm Death worthy of reviewing in print and online.

      Over the years I’ve been fortunate enough to have interviewed a number of artists that could easily be slotted into the heavy metal category. I’ve always thought that metal, much like punk rock, was as much a state of mind as it was a sound, and I’ve always enjoyed bands on the fringe of the genre as much or more than the mainstream artists (did I mention that I loathe nerf-metal bands like Poison and Mutley Crew?). Thus, this thin book you hold in your hands includes some of my favorite interviews with bands like Living Colour and Faith No More that were commercially-successful trailblazers as well as lesser-known but incredibly influential outfits like King’s X and Voivod that were truly progressive artists.

      This is the third volume of The Rock ‘n’ Roll Archives series – if you enjoy this one, you might check out volumes one (Southern Rockers) and two (Punk Rock), both of which feature artist interviews and album reviews from the Reverend’s seemingly endless archives. Until volume four rolls around, bang yer headz!

      Rev. Keith A. Gordon

      July 2018

      Somewhere in the hinterlands outside of Buffalo NY

      Agony Column

      Agony Column were one of those obscure indie label metal bands that cropped up during the late 1980s and early ‘90s before grunge would come roaring out of Seattle and steamroll the metal rebellion into roadkill. Don’t remember how they came to my attention – probably via a copy of their Comes Alive promotional EP – but I was impressed by the band and thus wrote this interview for Nashville’s Metro zine. Agony Column also impressed my rockcrit colleague Martin Popoff, who named his acclaimed and long-running metal zine Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles after the band’s sophomore album.

      When Bob Seger sang of heavy music all those years ago, even he could never have imagined the sound of Agony Column. The sound of black leather jackboots scraping one’s ribcage, the sensation of crawling naked over razor-sharp concertina wire…you know, the kind of stuff which makes up Clive Barker’s nightmares. That’s hellbilly death metal. That’s Agony Column.

      Hailing from the unlikely hometown of Austin, Texas, known for its nice new sincerity bands such as Poi Dog Pondering, Agony Column may very well represent the true face of that Southwestern desert music mecca. Formed almost five years ago, Agony Column has been conveniently overlooked by the Austin mainstream. We’ve been shunned and ignored for a long time, says Agony Column bassist Pawl Willis, but we’ve built a real loyal following and we’ve been here for years.

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