Chicago has produced so many musical legends in its storied history that just compiling a list of them would end up looking like a phonebook (remember those, kids?). It doesn’t matter if you are talking about hip hop, blues, punk, rock, singer-songwriter, or metal, Chicago has made its mark on the musical landscape of whatever…
In the world of extreme metal, the Chicagoland area is an underrated spot. Sure, Florida, New York, and California get a lot of attention, and deservedly so, too. That being said, Chicago’s contributions to extreme metal and the bands that call that area home have been criminally overlooked by the national media. Plenty of cool…
It’s no surprise that musicians put a ton of themselves into their work. Just the act of creating is, in and of itself, an incredibly intimate process of putting something of yourself into your art that, you hope, will deeply affect its particular audience in some way. How much of yourself you put into that work…