Empty Metal Rewrites the Rules of Filmmaking

Cine Las Americas film blends entertainment and the avant-garde

"...Some films have acknowledgments in their closing credits. Empty Metal has a bibliography...."

May 3, 2019 Screens Feature by Matthew Monagle

SXSW Comedy Review: Witch Taint: The Black Metal Dialogues Live!

Blackest metal and droll humor combine for nonstop laughs

"...ever heard such dark, brutal names of any black metal band in your life?..."

March 14, 2017 Arts Post by Sean L. Malin

Chest Cavities, Empty Kneecaps, and Elbows

A week at Austin's all-ages live music venue Redrum and the 'School of Rock' lessons learned

"...and DVD taping tonight, and their funky, screamy, bouncy metal echoes off the walls. One guy with long brown..."

Nov. 11, 2005 Music Feature by Audra Schroeder

True Norwegian Black Metal

"...accent exactly 58 minutes later. A sea of black metal tees, closing in on its comfortable evening high of..."

April 22, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Playback: Black Metal, Gray Skies, Red-Hot Love

Sex, love, and nostalgia – recapping Fun Fun Fun Fest 2015

"...staring over a fearsome mosh pit where certified Angus metalheads tossed each other about. For Venom, the British trio..."

Nov. 13, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Full metal racket.

"...toys that can morph from cars and other prosaic metal objects into awesome fighting machines, aims for impact over..."

June 26, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow

Director Sophie Fiennes gives us this elegant examination of the highly personal artwork of German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer.

"...F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu); a possible hospice room filled with empty and distressed "beds" made of some unknown metal; and..."

Feb. 17, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

South of Heaven

Metal has a new home in Austin, and a new sponsor.

"...the Dirty Dog Bar. Rend, one of the Texas Metal Collective acts that's made the Sixth Street venue its..."

Aug. 10, 2012 Music Feature by Dan Solomon

Playback: Come & Take It

On Austin as a metal town, and a leaked shortlist for the next Austin Music Office boss

"...logos is whether or not Austin qualifies as a "metal town," an argument also known as "keeping up with..."

July 7, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Alas, Lord Is Upon Me

Adam 'Nergal' Darski, frontman for Polish metal titans Behemoth, talks English, Polish, and Slayer

"...Darski as patched through the L.A. office of label Metal Blade from his home in Poland. Given the veteran..."

Jan. 7, 2010 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Samurai Sword

Austin Powell debuts “Into the Void” with the Sword's Trivett Wingo

"...traverse this realm of brimstone, fire, and all things metal. This week, drummer Trivett Wingo, from Austin’s metal messiahs..."

Feb. 2, 2007 Music Post by Austin Powell

Inside the 2019 Cine Las Americas Schedule

Talking different kinds of borders with Executive Director Jean Anne Lauer

"...Among those titles is dystopian drama Empty Metal: While so much political debate and art is..."

May 3, 2019 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Cable Access Hero “DaveTV” Exits ATX

Prewitt brought the club to your couch for three decades

"...up in the living room of Dave Prewitt’s otherwise empty South Austin home. Some brim with video masters containing..."

Aug. 19, 2019 Music Post by Kevin Curtin

Checking In: The Well’s Ian Graham Skateboards Through the Storm

“Only time we leave is to visit the store and we wear a mask and gloves”

"...At the Austin Music Awards last month, the Best Metal winners rocked the almost 40-year-old event singularly, their Sabbath..."

April 13, 2020 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Lijadu Sisters

Wislawa Szymborska meets the Lijadu Sisters

"...last month with word that my two favorite Polish metal acts, Behemoth and Decapitated, play San Antonio's White Rabbit..."

Feb. 7, 2012 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Karaoke Queen

In honor of Brian Raftery's Don't Stop Believin' karaoke tome, K8X weighs in with her own karaoke lists.

"...I reviewed Brian Raftery's most excellent ode to the empty orchestra, the ancient Japanese art of karaoke: Don't Stop..."

Dec. 30, 2008 Books Post by Kate X Messer

Bobcats, Bears, and Boko

"...surely are. The band strikes up an ‘80s heavy metal song and we’re in business...."

Sept. 17, 2007 Sports Post by Joe O'Connell

Once Upon a Toy Story

Disney Grows Up

"...of people who lived at the bottom of an empty metal cylinder...."

Dec. 15, 1995 Screens Feature

Sxsw

"...lava sound of Skrew roared furiously on their last Metal Blade outing. That bodes well for the band's upcoming..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature

Nothing Here Has Any Real Value

Honorable mention

"...ranging from poor to unrecognizable. A child's wooden bank, empty, in the shape of a zebra. A typewriter. A..."

Feb. 9, 2007 Books Feature by Sarah Elizabeth Eastep

Letters at 3AM

Our secret fantasies were made public by Elvis Presley.

"...In the empty parking lot of a joint that calls itself a..."

March 16, 2001 Column by Michael Ventura

Jesus Gonna Be Here

Johnny Toxic

"...on the cymbals (not your run-of-the-mill rock & roll metal plates, but finely tuned inverted cymbals hung like a..."

March 26, 1999 Music Feature

Total Entertainment Package

Rockin' out with Austin's Latin-metal crossover darlings

"...Estefan Jr. told well-wishers every time he saw an empty cocktail glass at the pre-release celebration for Vallejo's Sony..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Chapter 2: Biweekly and Proud

September 1982-August 1988

"...wide enough to place a telephone on. With a metal folding chair parked behind it, this shabby sight was..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Features Feature

The Big Crapshoot

Tracking South by Southwest

"...majority of acts playing the conference walk away virtually empty-handed. Like any other part of the music business, SXSW..."

March 14, 1997 Music Feature by Andy Langer

SXSW Film Goes Right to the Moon

Apollo 10 1/2, Sandra Bullock, and more join movie list

"...playlist of 24 Beats Per Second titles that includes metal master Ronnie James Dio (DIO Dreamers Never Die), prog..."

Feb. 2, 2022 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Royal Headache’s Destructive Joy

Aussies pound out the The Breakfast Club of punk

"...living off touring because we have a lot of empty space here. There’s not a whole lot of little..."

Aug. 13, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

What Goes Where?

Recycling do's and don'ts

"...Aluminum and Metals, including: aluminum foil (clean, balled 2 inches or larger),..."

Nov. 14, 2014 News Feature

Rock and a Hard Place

Twenty Dollar Vibe

"...tunes on Johnny Law, the band's 1991 debut for Metal Blade. Independence Day also unveils a new rhythm section,..."

Feb. 13, 1998 Music Feature by Andy Langer

99 Bands

Ninety-nine local bands on Red River waiting to be heard

"...– rock & roll, punk, post-rock, experimental, country, jazz, metal, you name it – Red River is alive. For..."

July 8, 2005 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

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