Frank Bello’s new memoir Fathers, Brothers, and Sons: Surviving Anguish, Abandonment, and Anthrax takes us from a New York childhood, to Anthrax stadium tours, to fatherhood with the charming informality of a conversation with an old friend. Then I’m Gone, Bello’s first solo EP, provides accompaniment. Joe Frietze reviews.

Carl F. Gauze reviews Live and Fucking Loud From London on DVD, featuring the queen of rock and roll sex appeal, Wendy O. Williams.

Mortal Micronotz, Smash, Live, The Beast that Devoured Itself, 40 Fingers (Bar/None). Review by Scott Adams.

Metalander-Z (Chicken Ranch). Review by Carl F Gauze.

A Bigger Boat (Prophase Music). Review by Carl F Gauze.

How does one make a book about Motorhead, hard-drugging and hard-thrashing metal godfathers, boring? Read on…

Various Artists (Armoury Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Slash [Deluxe Edition] (EMI). Review by Joe Frietze.

Inferno (Sanctuary Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.

Hammered (Sanctuary). Review by Joe Frietze.

List-Mania is running wild all over Bladejob. Shudder in terror as Matthew Damascus struggles to pick out the bright spots for wrestling in 2001.

While still best known in the States as the frontwoman for the critically acclaimed metal act Warlock, Doro Pesch (or just Doro, professionally) has had a thriving solo career in Europe. Now, after eight years abroad, she has a new album, Calling The Wild, out in the U.S. Cindy Harper caught up with the metal goddess on the eve of her tour supporting Dio and Yngwie Malmsteen.