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TROY C. (1Evil1)
Co-owner - USA
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Styles Prefered: Classic Thrash & Speed Metal, Swedish Death Metal, The Gothenburg Sound and anything technical enough to kick my ass!
Favorite Bands: Megadeth, Nevermore, Hypocrisy, Iced Earth, Children Of Bodom, Priest, Testament, Morbid Angel

FRANK H. (Nailer)
Co-owner - USA
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Styles Prefered: Traditional US metal, Euro power metal, old-school thrash, some melodic thrash, some hair metal, underground/lesser known bands
Favorite Bands:Zeppelin, Maiden, Queensryche, AC/DC, Metallica, Anthrax, Dio, Ozzy, GnR, Savatage, Manowar, Whitesnake, KISS, Leppard, Tesla, Skid Row, Dokken, AIC, Van Halen, In Flames, Helloween, Overkill, Heathen, Suicidal Tendencies, Scorpions, Iced Earth, Blind Guardian, Biomechanical, Children of Bodom, Mother Misery, Mercenary...

SAM RAHN (Etiam)
Co-owner - USA
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Styles Prefered: Many sorts, but emphasis is put on the black, power, viking, and deathly.
Favorite Bands: Anata, Root, Enslaved, The Crown, Devin Townsend and all his affiliations, etc.

Al Kikuras (Al Kikuras)
Writer - U.S.
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DEBBIE KAR (Debbie Kar)
Writer - USA
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Madamoiselle Kar is a qualified MD – a master of disaster. Her political affiliations run along the lines of, "whoever fights to abolish the income tax" so she can sustain her filthy Gucci habit. By day, she masquerades as a slave at an investment bank, and by night, she enjoys keeping company with flirtatious "rock stahs", happily dropping on her knees to get the "money shot". Decibel busting bands photographed: Chimaira, Dragonforce, Behemoth, Nightwish, Grammy nominees Lamb of God, and many more. Her vices include the following: kissing mirrors, lavishing attention on her doggie, schadenfreude, metrosexuals, dirtysexy pirates, attempting to work out, commitmentphobia, cognitive flexibility, copious amounts of Laurent-Perrier "Grand Siècle" champagne, searching for various forums to display her blatant yet oddly compelling narcissism, vino (she's mourning the loss of one of her prized Château Latours during a game of drunken/strip chess), and just a teeny bit of photography. Debbie served a four year sentence in college, securing her release in the form of a BA in Marketing.
Metal Palette: Eschewing the labels...bands that may or may not have been downloaded illegally include: Exodus, Death Angel, Old Metallica, Megadeth, Children of Bodom, God Forbid, Savatage, Machine Head, Dimmu Borgir, Chimaira, Trivium, Iron Maiden, Behemoth, Divine Heresy, Amon Amarth, Nightwish, Iced Earth, Shadows Fall, ad infinitum. Non-metal divergences include: A 200GB external hard drive of illegally downloaded trance, hip-hop, world beats, classical sitar, blues, jazz, Gregorian Monk chants, opera, and William Hung music videos. Currently listening to: Charlotte Church, Amon Amarth, Duke Ellington, Nightwish, and a cell phone voicemail box filled with her mother's laments on why she's not married yet. Answer: Because Li Mu-bai is a fictitious character. *sigh*

DAVID L. (Grim Gaijin)
Writer - USA
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Styles Prefered: Black Metal, Progressive Metal/Rock, Grindcore, Classic Thrash Metal, Doom/Stoner, Classic Rock
Favorite Bands: Rush (all time favorite), Enslaved, Opeth, Dim Mak, King Diamond, Graveland, Xasthur, Porcupine Tree, Type O Negative, Middian, Yob, Isis, Cult of Luna, Primus, Voivod, Decapitated, Ogre (Japan), Agalloch, Blut Aus Nord, Darkthrone, Dead Soul Tribe, Fates Warning, Redemption, Engine, Oceansize, Pink Floyd, Yes, Sikth, Symphony X, Dream Theater, Tool, Sunn O))), Jesu/Godflesh, Black Label Society, Loudness, Queensryche, Cannibal Corpse, Extol, Obituary, Marduk, Napalm Death, The Locust.

NAKIA MELODY (Neekoy)
Writer - Australia
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Styles Prefered: Pantera, Slipknot, Old School Metallica, Sepultura, Deftones, Damaged, Sabbath, Machine Head, Nirvana, Guns and Roses, AIC, Soundgarden, Faith No More, Screaming Trees, SLAYER!!!!!, Purple, SOAD. I guess I am the poster child of 90's fanfare rock and metal.
Favorite Bands: Thrashy Grind with Death influences, but also some simplistic riffy kind of shit like Grunge.

KIM THORE (Strutter)
Writer - USA
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Styles Prefered: Neo-Metal, Ambient (Techno-pop, IDM), Heavy (Narrative and Stadium), Glam, Hardcore Metal (punk)
Favorite Bands: Mr. Nasty, Black Sabbath, Tool, Queensryche, Fuel, Led Zep, Ozzy, Theory of a Deadman, old Metallica, Judas Priest, Korn, White Zombie, BLS, Hurt and my favorite would be Glam metal bands--basically anyone who had or has a singer or guitar player with great hair and eyeliner...(AIC, Sevendust, Rage Against the Machine, Danzig, Type O Negative, Alice Cooper, T- Rex, AC/DC, KISS, Mötley Crüe, Dokken, System of a Down, Meatloaf, Wolfmother, Everlast..

TRACY MORRIS (Tracy Morris)
Writer - USA
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Styles Prefered: Hard Rock, Glam, Traditional US metal
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VINAYA SAKSENA (Vinaya)
Writer - USA
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Styles Prefered: Classic Rock, Progressive, Power Metal, Blues, Fusion, Classical, Neo-Classical Metal...and anything else involving emotion, energy and musicianship.
Favorite Bands: Thin Lizzy, UFO, Deep Purple, Crack The Sky, Iron Maiden, Riot

WILL TULL (Weasel)
Writer - USA
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Styles Prefered: Death Metal, Black Metal, Thrash, Murder Metal, Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Avante Garde, Speed Metal, US Metal, Euro Power Metal, Fantasy/Medieval Metal, Metal Industrial, Electro Metal, Stoner Metal, Doom Metal
Favorite Bands: Slayer, GWAR, Primus and all things related to Les Claypool, Slipknot, Dying Fetus, Pantera, Butthole Surfers, 3 Inches of Blood, Lord Gore, Dimmu Borgir, Cannibal Corpse, Deicide, Nailbomb, Devil Driver, Macabre, Soilent Green, Mastadon, Children of Bodom, Jethro Tull, Cattle Decapitation, Burn the Priest/Lamb of God, Nile, Strapping Young Lad, Atreyu, Agalloch, Opeth, Shadows Fall, In Flames, Pink Floyd, Hypocrisy, GnR, Twisted Sister, Job for a Cowboy, AC/DC, Suffocation, Mudvayne, Fear Factory, Coal Chamber, Pearl Jam, Mushroomhead, Spineshank, Electric Hellfire Club, Mortician, Krisiun, Motorhead, God Forbid, Hatebreed, Snot, Necrophagia, Emperor, Entomed, Hecate Enthroned, Behemoth, Goatwhore, The Doors, Satyricon, Spinal Tap, The Misfits, Mr.Bungle, Tool, Kamelot, Rush, Six Feet Under, Deicide, Dethklok, Buckethead, Morbid Angel, Godhead, Marylin Manson, Alice in Chains, Killswitch Engage, Megadeth, Otep, Iron Maiden, Led Zepplin, Older Metallica, Type-O-Negative, White Zombie, The Melvins, Cold, The Deftones, The Dead Kennedy's, Mindless Self Indulgence, Coal Chamber, Stone Temple Pilots, Jungle Rot, Martyr A.D, Dope, Static-X, System of A Down, Cold, Impaler, Ministry, Rammstein, Queens of the Stone Age, The Haunted, Danzig, NIN, Napalm Death, Skinless, Stabbing Westward, Bloodbath, Enslaved....

Jack Clulow (Wils)
Writer - USA
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Styles Prefered: I listen to most styles of metal, generally speaking I listen to a lot of groove metal, and straight up thrash; bands like Exodus, Pantera, Blood Tsunami. I also listen to a lot of melodic metal and progressive metal/rock, I'm a fan of Tool and Exit Ten. I also like southern rock and power metal, I listen Down and Cowbar and also a lot of European power bands like Wintersun, Ensiferum, Rhapsody.
Favorite Bands: Away from metal, I listen to grindcore, crust, power violence; bands like Fallen World, Step On It, Narcosis. I'm a fan of punk as well, I like old school punk mainly, bands like Exploited, Discharge, Captains America. I also listen to ska and other varietys of rock, tho my actual music collection rarely strays from the main genres involved in metal, rock, punk and grind.



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