IN WHICH WE TAUGHT YOU HOW TO SPELL “YAH-MUH-KUH”

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And so, with that shameless plug out of the way, let’s review all the fun we had this week, shall we?

• We continued our countdown of The Top 25 Modern Metal Drummers.
• We debuted new music by Unsane.
• Jeff Loomis gave us a tour of his live rig, Becoming the Archetype’s Seth Hecox kept us up-to-date on spring training, and God Forbid’s Doc Coyle told us about the aftermath of the NBA trade deadline.
• Vince recapped the highlights from this year’s SXSW.
• We considered purchasing Big Four yarmulkes for passover.
• We celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of the release of Iron Maiden’s The Number of the Beast, and mourned the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Randy Rhoads.
• We were really impressed by this dude’s one-take piano cover of the entirety of Mastodon’s Leviathan.
• We wondered if Opeth deliberately wrote a score to Salvador Dali’s short Disney film, Destino.
• We got really excited about the first new Faceless song in four years.
• We learned about “copyright math.”

Next week we get through the final five on our drummer list!!!! WHO WILL BE #1?!?! Step right up, place yer bets!

-AR