Word: slayers
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...favorite stuff.” Their lyrics are tortured in a vague, expendable sort of way (“Collisions hurt and abrasions bleed / It’s hard to deal when all you do is feel”), and their lead singer finds inspiration not in Slayer, not in Black Sabbath, not even in Van Halen, but in…Edie Brickell (“it boggles my mind that she didn’t become megahuge,” Ant Dryden Mitchell recently told Rolling Stone...
...metal is the moniker for today’s second generation of metal stars who were raised on 80s mainstays like Slayer, Anthrax and Metallica (although not so much their last two albums), and have blended those influences with slices of hip-hop and hardcore: Korn, Linkin Park, POD and Limp Bizkit serve as the most commercial (and hence recognizable and successful) of this crew. Both System and Slipknot have carved a niche for themselves in this emerging genre...
...stemming largely from my avowed interest in feminism. By some accident of good luck, I’d already been assigned to write about Amos when Atlantic Records announced that the album would be a collection of covers written by men like Eminem and Tom Waits and bands like Slayer and Depeche Mode, intended to explore the hidden female voice within them...
...surprised when people start saying it to me. I price gas masks on the Internet, consider prescribing myself emergency antibiotics. I wonder, horrified and hopeful, whether Club Med has dropped their prices, and can I go tomorrow? Suddenly, the escapism of my favorite television show, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," is not so escapist. But I love it even more, because now I know what it?s like to have evil nearby...
...today's palimpsest pop culture, in which everything is ripe for sampling and nothing stays dead. They have seen the movies morph Charlie's Angels from jiggle joint to empowerment parable; now they can see the reruns, back on TV Land, big sisters once removed to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dark Angel. Says Ron Simon, a curator at New York City's Museum of Television and Radio who teaches in the film department at Columbia University in New York City: "Most of my students make little distinction between film and television. That whole hierarchy has disappeared among the young...