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  #MIKEVANEKSUCKS The Blog: A Look at Forest of Jinn By Mike Vanek The Appalachian Mountains are as beautiful as it gets. It can also be a dark desolate place where you are Isolated from so society, Especially if you are kids that play black metal. Hailing from Wears Valley Tennesee Forest of Jinn is a Black Metal band that draws from the cold dark mountains of East Tennesee. Labeled as Apalacian Ritual Black Metal Forest of Jinn's music is dark, complex, and mesmerizing licks that transform into udderly intense Black Metal. The band's debut album entitled "Aag Ke Ped" is a throwback to the crusty depths of the origins of gritty black metal bands of days past. Released on Holloween of 2020, This 3 song EP that can be found on Itunes, Spotify, or wherever you download music is a devilish detour of your everyday norm that makes you contemplate life in a different hue of black... Starting as a solo project in 2016 Forest of Jinn resurfaced in 2019 consisting of Vocalist,...

  #MIKEVANEKSUCKS The Blog Review: Nordic Frost "Ad Inferna" By Mike Vanek Today in my neverending quest to bring you good music I take you to the realm of Symphonic Black Metal and the utterly outstanding music of my good friend Brian Lewis and his project NORDIC FROST. Modesto California's Nordic Frost is the brainchild of Mr. Brian Lewis a veteran musician of the local metal scene and someone I have a lot of respect for. I first met Brian in 2003 when I booked his first band LET THIS DIE which was a group of kids playing grindcore and I kept working with Brian throughout the years with his band Etched In Stone. Now I have gone round and round with members of Etch In Stone throughout the years from prank phone calls to a horrible article about me on the internet but the one constant thing was the respect I received from their Singer Brian. Brian is a good dude that loves his family and has an everlasting love for good metal and he has for years. Etched In Stone had seve...

  #MIKEVANEKSUCKS The Blog A look at Negative Sixxx By Mike Vanek When I set out to write this blog I wanted to expose the world to the best bands I could find. Well, one of those bands is Oakland California's NEGATIVE SIXXX!! The SF bay area has always been a breeding ground for awesome heavy metal bands and Negative Sixxx is no exception. With a super heavy sound that blends modern metal with thrash, this band is an all out attack on the senses! Made up of scene veterans Sid Frankosky on Vocals (StriktNyne, Desecrater, Jesus Crisis w/Harald O ex-DRI) Chris Van De Van on Guitar (Enemy In Peril, Silence Chair) Rick Chavez on Guitar (A Morbid Curiosity, Enemy in Peril, Rawn Wadley on Bass (Stormbat) and Mark Miller on Drums (Anisoptera) this band will wake up the neighbors and keep your head banging all week with ferocious riffs, a solid rhythm section, and absolutely killer vocals. When it comes to debuts Negative Sixxx came out swinging with possibly the best debut a metal band co...