Latest Heavy metal Stories

By Mike Daniel, The Dallas Morning News Jul. 4--One way to gauge anything's prominence in pop culture is if there's been a cartoon made about it. That means metal is again part of America's cultural weave, at least for males 18-35, thanks to Metalocalypse, Adult Swim's series about the dysfunctional and ultraviolent exploits of impossibly popular death-metal band Dethklok. Call it tongue-ripped-away-from- cheek humor, with the series currently approaching the end of its second season....

By Dave Wedge, Boston Herald Jun. 23--Death metal is usually serious business. But Emerson College alum Brendon Small figured there was room alongside all the upside-down crosses, pentagrams and bloody goat heads for a little humor. Turns out he was more right than he ever imagined. "I didn't know whether people would dig it or not," said Small, creator of the animated black metal band Dethklok, from a recent tour stop in Tempe, Ariz. "You just do what you like, and if people like it,...

By John E. Usalis, The News-Item, Shamokin, Pa. Jun. 21--GORDON -- Back in March, it seemed that the matter of access to Gordon Community Park was settled. The public learned at Tuesday's meeting of Gordon Borough Council that the issue is still "in litigation." However, even though the road leading to the park is currently blocked by a dump truck, it will be open in time for the annual Gordon Music and Arts Festival, which is scheduled for Saturday, June 21. The free event includes live...

China Architectural Engineering, Inc. (CAE) (NASDAQ:CAEI), a leader in the design, engineering, fabrication and installation of high-end building envelope systems, today announced that Wang Xin, former CFO of the Company, has been appointed as the Company's interim CFO, to replace Xin Yue Jasmine Geffner, who has decided to leave CAE for personal reasons, effective June 30, 2008. The Company also reported that it has retained Korn/Ferry International (NYSE:KFY) to assist in the search of...

By Kumar, Sunil Sharma, Vishal; Bhoyar, R V; Bhattacharyya, J K; Chakrabarti, Tapan ABSTRACT: The effect of heavy metals on the activities of earthworm species Eudrillus eugineae was studied during vermicomposting of municipal solid waste (MSW) spiked with heavy metals. The activities of earthworms, in terms of growth and biomass production and number of cocoons produced, were monitored periodically, and the concentration of heavy metals in earthworms and substrates was determined at...

25 years of pollution monitoring shows a fall in the presence of toxins in ambient airAir quality in the UK has improved significantly over the last 25 years according to a report published by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL). Monitoring at 17 testing sites around the UK shows a fall in the presence of harmful heavy metals such as lead, iron and copper in the air we breathe. Results show a 70% reduction in the average presence of all heavy metals tested over the period. The total...

By Rodriguez, Luis Rincon, Jesusa; Asencio, Isaac; Rodriguez- Castellanos, Laura High-biomass crops can be considered as an alternative to hyperaccumutator plants to phytoremediate soils contaminated by heavy metals. In order to assess their practical capability for the absorption and accumulation of Hg in shoots, barley, white lupine, lentil, and chickpea were tested in pot experiments using several growth substrates. In the first experimental series, plants were grown in a mixture of...

By Khade, Sharda W; Adholeya, Alok ABSTRACT Bioremediation is an integrated management of a polluted ecosystem where different organisms are employed to catalyze the natural processes that decontaminate the environment. The potential role of bioremediation, particularly higher terrestrial plants (phytoremediation) research in the remediation of metal-polluted sites, has been the focus of much research in recent years. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are soil microorganisms that establish...

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Heavy metal maven Dave Mustaine is so angry with the United Nations that he is naming his group Megadeth's next album "United Abominations." "I was watching TV and saw the trucks that said 'UN' on them and said, 'Man, you are so uncool, ineffective, anything," the singer/guitarist said in a recent Billboard interview. "I thought, 'Wow, I've got to run with this. I got it -- United Abominations, 'cause it's an abomination what they're doing!" The longtime bane of...

By Jonathan CohenNEW YORK (Billboard) - Metallica, one of the biggest acts yet to make its music available for sale via Apple's iTunes Music Store, has ended its holdout.The enduring hard rock outfit's work went on sale Tuesday via the U.S. and Canada editions of the digital store.Metallica albums have previously been available for download via services such as MSN Music, but have never been broken up for single-song purchase until now. At iTunes, the group's first four albums ("Kill 'Em...