Category Archives: This Other Cool Stuff

Do Darwinian principals apply to evil serpent creatures? Because I’m not sure how this Eddie variant evolved to the point of not being able to land.

Holy shit! There is a cover where Eddie straight up murders Margaret Thatcher. I’m an obsessive collector of transgressive pop culture and I had never even heard of this until I started pulling together random images for this gallery. Some dude on Wikipedia wrote that it was supposed to be a lighthearted riff on howContinue reading “Metal Week Continues: Awesome Pictures of Iron Maiden’s Eddie, Part 3”

By the fifth Iron Maiden album, the themes for Eddie covers had gotten pretty ambitious. Imagine the brainstorming session where someone said “what if he was an Egyptian Pharoah.” They must have had the best cocaine ever in the history of the world in that heavy metal boardroom.

                  I’d like to think that he’s involved with Snoopy’s dogfights with the Red Baron somehow. But which side is Eddie on? He is evil, after all.

Let’s say you were a former member of one of the most popular bands of all time. You have one third of the songwriting credits for four songs on their first album, which is also probably their least selling album. Still, the album probably sells a lot of copies every year. How much money doContinue reading “Metal Week Continues with Megadeth”

Heavy metal should have called it a day after Master of Puppets. Not because it’s the best metal album, but because it’s a thorough mix of the metal music that came before it and because every subsequent innovation in heavy metal kind of sucked. Heavy metal in general is resistant to innovation. You can onlyContinue reading “Metal Week Continues with the Death of Metal”

Digging in the crates for metal returns a lot more misses than hits. With metal, the cream really does rise. As an example, the “New Wave of British Heavy Metal” from the ’70s is pretty flat aside from the obvious and well-known awesome-ness of Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. Also, Metallica is like a libertarianContinue reading “Heavy Metal Week Continues with a Quick Aside About Budgie”

When I was a teenager, Anthrax was my favorite metal band. I liked them because they dressed like surfer party guys, wrote songs about Stephen King characters and comic books and recorded a goofy rap song. Aside from the rap thing, though, what I liked about them had very little to do with their music.

Seen from a distance and when studied in minute detail, The Departed synchs up closely with Whitey Bulger. But in mid-range, they have nothing to do with each other.