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  'Last Days Here' and Pentagram's Sordid Story

  March 5, 2012 – The leathery "survivor" is one of rock's great archetypes. Think Keith Richards, Lemmy, or Iggy Pop: Their nicotine croaks and haggard faces supposedly suggestive of toughly earned wisdom or hard-won grace. They lived in the flame. They understand. Or, as in the case of Pentagram's Bobby Liebling, they don't. …
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  Meet Dr. Doom: Pentagram's Bobby Liebling Returns

  April 11, 2011 – Forty years ago, with his band Pentagram, Bobby Liebling invented a style of fiendishly heavy metal that hardly anyone heard. He spent the ensuing decades in a haze of hard drugs and big trouble. Now, with the genre he spawned on the rise and a young wife and baby boy in tow, Liebling is feeling the first rumblings of success. …
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  No Blood, No Glory: Thrasher Party Wilding at SXSW

  March 19, 2011 – In a SXSW sideshow with no shortage of highlights -- the proposition of Odd Future, Das Racist and a 40-year-old doom metal band sharing a bill hosted by Andrew W.K. frankly boggles the mind -- there was an irrefutable apex to Friday's Thrasher Magazine day party. As Los Angeles rap misfits Odd Future wrapped up their second song, crew leader Tyler the Creator eyed the onstage double-stack of massive speakers with a wicked grin. …
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  Best Photos from SXSW: Day 3

  March 19, 2011 –  …
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  Doom Metal

  October 1, 2009 – In 1970, Black Sabbath drained the blues from hard rock, slowing it into a depresso nightmare trudge with Frankenstein feet. Myriad masters of riff followed suit: Uriah Heep, Sir Lord Baltimore, Bang, Budgie. But when metal turned too fancy for its britches, doom metal had to drag it back to the dungeon. …
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