The News Review:

- Firewind: The Premonition – Music Review
- Metallica puts the metal back in Metallica
- Nonfiction review: ‘Don’t Stop Believin’ ‘
- Jack Black on riding pterodactyls heavy metal and his new video game

Firewind: The Premonition – Music Review
HotIndieNews.com NY 
While my sister was listening to Menudo and my mom listening to Sonny and Cher I was listening to Iron Maiden Motorhead and DI. Yea I had my head on straight! I missed those days of gut wrenching melodic metal. Sure bands have come along since and have attempted the style but tend to fail miserably. Nothing can beat the style grace and musicianship of that metal genre and no band has really captured that true essence of what metal REALLY is.

Metallica puts the metal back in Metallica
San Francisco Chronicle  USA 
tmpl –>As recently as four months ago you had to wonder if Metallica still had it. Even before the band’s worst album “St. Anger” came out three years ago members seemed more passionate about fighting Napster than making good music. Then the behind-the-scenes documentary “Some Kind of Monster” showed their very human and frequently whiny failings. If the hardest-rocking band on the planet is seeing a therapist named Phil isn’t it already over?.

Nonfiction review: ‘Don’t Stop Believin’ ‘
San Francisco Chronicle  USA 
tmpl –>Don’t Stop Believin’How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My LifeBy Brian RafteryDa Capo 223 pages $16Where I was in college in hio there were two options for karaoke. ne was the campus hotel where a parade of undergrads loaded up on cheap beer mugged smugly through ’80s metal tunes. The other was a roadhouse in the next town where a parade of locals loaded up on cheap beer belted contemporary country with unimpeachable unaffectedness. And the occasional ’80s metal tune. The joy of karaoke as evoked breezily in Brian Raftery’s “Don’t Stop Believin’: How Karaoke Conquered the World and Changed My Life” falls between the two. As in karaoke Raftery uses humor to break down inhibitions and find something like the true self.

Jack Black on riding pterodactyls heavy metal and his new video game
Los Angeles Times CA 
You couldn’t do that back then. You could only imagine that. What this game allows you to do is physicalize heavy metal music. You can do battle with this dramatic dangerous music as your score. It’s a real wish-fulfillment game for me. How is working in games different from in movies? Black: It’s exciting to me because it’s still relatively new. It’s an art form that hasn’t really reached its potential yet.
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