Kory Grow

While big-media news outlets continue to parse Michael Jackson’s successes and scandals, we here at Revolver want to commemorate why we loved the Gloved One through the years: Dude was metal.

There are a few countries have become well known, if not fetishized, for specific types of extreme metal.

When Revolver Associate Editor Kory Grow went to Helsinki, Finland, for the Spinefeast at Sea 2009 concert cruise, the choppy waves in the Gulf of Finland weren’t the only ups and downs he experienced.

When Finnish metal label Spinefarm invited Revolver to attend its annual Spinefeast at Sea festival, we couldn’t say no.

Yesterday, Axl Rose released the first new Guns N’ Roses album in 15 years. The operative words in that last sentence, of course, are “Axl Rose.”

Today, after I filed my taxes, a bird peed on me. That’s twice I was pissed on in less than 24 hours.

Recently, I saw Napalm Death play New York City. They were opening for DevilDriver, so the audience wasn’t exactly full of fans of the long-running British death-metal/grindcore group.

I went to see Japanese ambient-sludge-metal-whatever rockers Boris at New York’s Knitting Factory the other night.

Last week I saw the always-impressive Henry Rollins do a spoken-word show at Brooklyn’s Warsa

Last week, I traveled to Bergen, Norway, to interview black metallers Gorgoroth for Revolver’s May issue.