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...album's 16 songs, including Tourniquet (which is getting steady play on MTV), wallow in nightmarish, frequently X-rated scenarios of occultism, suicide, torture, greed and mindless celebrity worship. "I'm so all-American I'd sell you suicide," Manson snarls over the sound of jackhammering drums and the buzz-saw scream of guitars. Manson, whose real name is Brian Warner, and his group have all adopted names of celebrity idols and serial killers. The keyboardist calls himself Madonna Wayne Gacy; the bassist, Twiggy Ramirez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: SATAN'S LITTLE HELPERS | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...going to be walking into a buzz-saw," said Tomassoni. "It's their home opener. They are going to be high, so we have to be higher...

Author: By Ted G. Rose, | Title: The Road: Icemen's Greatest Foe | 11/15/1991 | See Source »

Poison. Anthrax. Alice in Chains. Skid Row. The band names alone conjure images of mayhem, torture and death. Heavy-metal rock, with its raw lyrics, pummeling beats, banshee vocals and buzz-saw guitars, seems custom-made for leather-clad lowlifes with tattooed biceps and lobotomized brains. Teenagers love it. Always have. But during the early 1980s, when the insipid glam-rock of Duran Duran ruled the charts, heavy metal was the idiot in the basement, shunned by music-industry executives and dismissed by critics as adolescent noise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heavy Metal Goes Platinum | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

...Engineers came out like a buzz-saw: they scored the game's first four goals...

Author: By Dan Breiner, | Title: Sports Wrap | 3/18/1987 | See Source »

...frightening for him. The dippy Dahlia dances in with a string of cutout paper dolls, ecstatic at the sight of Alma and Gwen, whom she's already pegged as playmates. Maybe they can even talk about boys, whom she's never seen. "Do they really have horrible steel buzz-saw blades in their pants, like Daddy told me?" she asks...

Author: By Melissa I. Weissberg, | Title: The Heat Is On at the Hasty | 2/19/1986 | See Source »

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