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Specifically, they've determined that 33 music groups--curiously, exactly half of 66 groups--"carry negative messages within their music." Included are heavy metal bands like Slayer, Wasp, Black Sabbath and Megadeath as well as more mainstream performers such as "Led Zepplin" [sic], Guns-N-Roses, Styx, AC/DC and Van Halen. Students may no longer wear t-shirts from these bands, or write the band's name on their t-shirts or notebooks...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: The Devil Went Down to Texas | 9/12/1990 | See Source »

...Scorchers played a number of painfully bad songs, all in the same chord, and the group left the audience numb with fear. This garbage band did its best to sound like outlaws of rock 'n' roll, but despite lead singer Jason's 10 gallon hat, The Scorchers more resembled Megadeath than Tom Petty. But their set wasn't a total loss; the guitarist had some mean tattoos...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: How Does it Feel? | 10/27/1989 | See Source »

...this configuration: nuclear bombs preside, in a dark, speculative way, over the human imagination of war. Nuclear is to conventional war what the monotheism of the avenging God was to the old amiably human and relatively harmless idolatries of polytheism. The wrath of God becomes the dread mushroom and megadeath and firestorm-totality, cessation. It is not relative, like the old wars, but absolute, the utter blank of extinction. Nuclear war sits in the mind like the lurid medieval vision of hell: horrible-and yet, well, hypothetical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Metaphysics of War | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

...Soviets come and get me. I'd rather live with mega-Communism than live to see megadeath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 26, 1982 | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

Finally, the Megadeath group comes on and slays huge portions of the crowd-with its amplifiers. Lemmings will slay many many more with its high-voltage humor. «T.E.K...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Megadeath by Laughter | 2/19/1973 | See Source »

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