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James Brown might have invented funk, but Sly Rock perfected it; his alchemical fusion of spirit, rock and roll, gospel, and psychedelia turned down stylistic boundaries just as much as his explosive support band the Family members Rock disregarded racial and gender limitations, creating a group of euphoric however politically …

Skinlab can be an option metal music group formed in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA in Sept 1995 by bassist/vocalist Steev Esquivel and guitarist Mike Roberts; the group also contains guitarist Gary Wendt and drummer Paul Hopkins. The extreme, ultra-heavy riffing showcased on the demonstration tapes got them a agreement with …

Perhaps one of the most important rings from England’s R&B picture through the early ’60s, the Pets were second and then the Rolling Rocks in impact among R&B-based rings within the initial wave from the Uk Invasion. The Pets had their roots within a Newcastle-based group known as the Kansas …

Hailing from central Florida, Trivium shaped in 2000 and quickly constructed a hype around Orlando’s steel community making use of their mixture of metalcore, thrash, and progressive steel. Having guaranteed a contract using the German imprint Lifeforce, the music group released its debut record, Ember to Inferno, in Oct 2003 …

Made in 1999 with the only real purpose of offering the soundtrack to Armageddon, Anaal Nathrakh is truly a side task for Englishmen V.We.T.R.We.O.L. (aka Dave Hunt, vocalist with Benediction and Mistress) and Irrumator (aka multi-instrumentalist Mick Kenney, of Aborym, Frost, Mistress, and owner of Necrodeath Studios). Acquiring their founding …

Slipknot’s mixture of milling, post-Korn alternative metal, Marilyn Manson-esque neo-shock rock and roll, and rap-metal helped make sure they are probably one of the most popular rings within the so-called nu-metal explosion from the past due ’90s. But a lot more useful was their theatrical, attention-grabbing picture: the music group …

While he debuted within the underground world of horrorcore and seemed destined to be always a future footnote, rapper Technology N9ne turned out to be an indie rap superstar. Along the way, he constructed his Unusual Music label right into a Psychopathic Records-styled empire with an associated loyal group of …

Like lots of the garage rock and roll revivalists within the ’90s (the Unband, the Streetwalkin’ Cheetahs, the Gaza Strippers), Montreal, Canada’s Tricky Woo take the MC5/Stooges guitar rock and roll sound from the ’70s and rework it for future generations. Tricky Woo produced in 1996, with frontman Andrew Dickson, …

Perhaps one of the most thuggish rappers ever embraced from the mainstream, Technique Daddy broke from the South in 2001 with “I’m a Thug” and established himself while an unlikely country wide superstar. Before his discovery, he scored several regional hits occasionally but remained mainly an underground rapper. Specifically, he …

Slick Rick foreshadowed and epitomized the pimpster attitude of several rappers through the past due ’80s and early ’90s, with silver chains, his brand eye-patch, and recordings which were believe it or not misogynistic — “Deal with Her Such as a Prostitute,” for instance, became an underground strike in 1988, …