Read
From The Archive Desk
Corpus Christi Thrash: Devastation, Anialator and the Coast
Three bands formed in one Gulf Coast city in one year, signed to three different labels, and turned a stretch of South Padre Island Drive into the loudest room in South Texas.
Tape Trading: How Thrash Metal Spread Before the Internet
A blank cassette, a trade list and a stamp got an unsigned band from a garage in California or a practice room in New Braunfels, Texas, to a kid in Warsaw or Belo Horizonte, years before anyone had an email address.
The Dallas–Fort Worth Metal Scene in the 1980s: Three Rooms That Built It
Dallas went punk and new wave. Arlington and Fort Worth went metal, in a pasture, a bar, a tombstone factory and a garage a Lebanese landlord never wanted to be a metal club.
