Losing My Religion

Metal Monday Volume 54 (1.23.12)

I am a casual Lacuna Coil fan. I’ve been into them since they broke with Comalies (Like everyone else for the most part…) and have quietly picked up every album since. I don’t listen to them on a regular basis and I’ve only seen them once mostly because they happened to be opening for Stone Sour. I also love the fact that frontwoman Cristina Scabbia and Slipknot/Stone Sour shredder Jim Root are still an item. But I digress. A lot…. […]

bLISTerd: Happy Anniversary, MTV!: The Top 50 Videos of the ’90s (10-1)

by MJ on Aug 12, 2011 • No Comments

10. “Closer” Nine Inch Nails (1994) A truly terrifying parade of grotesqueries unsuitable for late-night viewing, NIN’s clip for “Closer” is brilliant in both sheer depravity and the innovative choice to use worn film stock, contributing to the video’s house-of-horrors atmosphere. Even the “frame missing” slides insinuate something horrifying, although what’s present – beating hearts, pig’s heads, horned skulls, and, perhaps most disturbingly, a silhouetted Trent Reznor seducing a decidedly breast-shaped microphone – should certainly do the trick. – Drew […]