About MetalKult

MetalKult.com – Your Ultimate Extreme Metal Source

As part of the Guitar World and Revolver family, MetalKult’s daily stream of information— in-depth video interviews, breaking news, exclusive live and behind-the-scenes footage— connects you to all that’s worth knowing in the outer realms of metal, hardcore and heavy music. Lock and Load.

+++ FOUNDING EDITORS +++

Brad Angle
Along with managing the MetalKult action, Brad is a senior editor at Guitar World magazine. His writing has also appeared in the pages of Revolver, Alternative Press, Inked Magazine and CMJ Monthly.

Jimmy Hubbard
When Hubbard is not looking at/taking picture of dudes with guitars as Guitar World magazine’s photo director, he is selecting the crème de la crème of the metal elite for inclusion on MetalKult.com. As the creative editor of the site, Hubbard shoots, edits and selects much of the amazing content you see before you. Score!

+++ CONTRIBUTORS +++

Butch Asimov
When we asked Butch for a bio, this is what arrived: “Butch Asimov is a failed U.S. Government experiment of the Sixties. He is currently looking for women around the outskirts of Calcutta.” Do we believe him? You decide.

John Baizley
John Baizley is a painter and musician based in Savannah, GA. He’s designed many album covers and t-shirts for bands including Kylesa, Pig Destroyer, Darkest Hour, The Famine, Daughters, Skeletonwitch, Torche, Cursed, Black Tusk and his own band, Baroness for which he is the singer and rhythm guitarist. Baizley provided the original, metal-as-hell, visual concept for the MetalKult design. Click HERE to view that art.

Angela Boatwright
Hailing from Columbus, Ohio, Angela is a New York City based photographer—and metalhead lifer—who’s work has appeared in many magazines, including Nylon, Vibe, Guitar World and W. She is also the photo editor at Mass Appeal magazine, runs her own company, Killer of Giants, and knows more about Diamond Head than you (or we) do.

Ian Caskey
Ian is a Southern-born, Brooklyn-embedded author who reports from the outer edge of extreme and occult metal. We’ve never actually seen him, but we imagine that he’s shut in a windowless cellar, where he scratches his prose into small black notebooks. We’re told his collection of short stories, tentatively titled How Deep Is Your Wound? should arise sometime in 2009.

Adam Ganderson
Adam Ganderson dreamt that he was on horseback being led into the mouth of a castle by three naked, demonic witches… When he sobered up, to his dismay, he found he was actually living in Brooklyn and drawing primitive pen and ink illustrations. In his more lucid periods, along with contributing to MetalKult, Adam writes for such outlets as Terrorizer and The Village Voice.

Geoff Garlock
Geoff played bass in hardcore luminaries Orchid, and also handled bass duties in the ultimate Orchid fan bumout band Panthers. Geoff also spends alot of time writing sketch comedy at Upright Citizens Brigade theatre for his Maude team The Skuntz. But honestly Geoff spends most of his time on the couch in his underwear, listening to metal and watching movies with his dog and ladyfriend. Dare to dream.

Mike Hill
When he’s not fronting the Brooklyn hardcore outfit Tombs, Mike runs his label, Black Box Recordings, where he records and produces many extreme and hardcore artists.

Thomas Hooper
English born, Thomas lives, paints and tattoos in New York City. He’s also husband to Kimberly Hooper, son to Mary Purfield, brother to Peter & Eleanor Hooper. Thomas has worked for Jim Macairt, Alex Binnie, Dante Dimassa and most recently Lori Leven, at New York Adorned. Thomas is the quiet genius behind the outrageous MetalKult visual aesthetic and logo. Click here to view Thomas’ original MetalKult painting.

David Konow
David Konow is the author of Bang Your Head, and has also contributed to Guitar World, Geek Monthly, Fangoria, and many other publications and websites.

Henry Yuan
By far the tallest member of the MetalKult crew, Henry spends most of his time digitizing an endless stream of copy over at Guitar World.com. When he comes up for air, Henry writes well-informed reviews on various extreme metal bands. He has also flown 3,000 miles to see Cynic live, which displays exactly the unhealthy level of metal commitment that we here at MetalKult appreciate.