I feel like I had been waiting to see 300 for about 300 years. I heard about it way back, when a teaser trailer was put up featuring the track ‘Just Like You Imagined’ by NIN, and it was all over our fan forum. Yeah, we’re nerds like that.
So, despite lukewarm reviews, I really enjoyed the film. Seeing it on IMAX is a must. That year of post production made for an absolutely stunning film, but what really nailed it for me was the score.
Done very much in NIN spirit, it was gritty and loud. Tyler Bates is a masterful composer. If the images weren’t enough to do it for you, the sound sent you over the edge. Like the Persians in the movie.
It would be my first time back to the movie theater in this post-Pandemic era and it was 11am on…
It’s 1989 in Huntsville, Alabama… and what would now seem like an inconsequentially easy filming of an afternoon of not…
Anyone near my age who likes heavy music will remember certain points where mass media and our preferences have intersected…
We’re all at home with lots of free time right now- so here are my top 5 picks of things…
When I say I stopped listening to music for the last 5 years, that’s not completely true. There’s one band…
I got chills the first time I heard Chris Cornell cover Billie Jean. Oddly enough, his cover popped into my…
Promo footage from 1991/92….wow! It includes their first public performance, with the most docile RATM crowd ever.
My NIN friend Victoria caught this on film at the Vegas NIN/JA show…Perry looked right in the camera. Hilarious! Jane’s…
Review of upcoming album Kingdom of Welcome Addiction here.