Guardian Music — Iran's rulers have declared war on rap. So how did this woman become the country's first hip-hop MC? Homa Khaleeli meets the unstoppable SalomeIt's not often you hear about rappers from Iran – and it's even rarer to hear of female MCs – but 25-ye... more info

Metalsucks — Metal bands without a bassist are nothing new (Pig Destroyer, Salome, etc.), and we’ve all seen metal bands without a drummer (Genghis Tron immediately comes to mind), but I honestly can’t think of a metal band that has no guitar player. The guit... more info

Metal Injection — By: Graham "Gruhamed" Hartmann Before Katherine Katz made her debut as the official third vocalist of Agoraphobic Nosebleed on their 2009 release Agorapocalypse, the Virginian scream queen had been quietly brewing a crushing doom project with guitari... more info

Metal Injection — It's New Music Tuesday apparently. We have four different links for you, all of which feature music that comes 100% Metal Injection pre-approved for your listening pleasure. Let's get started, shall we… I nearly shit bricks when I saw the... more info

Metalsucks — Photo by Josh Sisk I’m kinda running out of nice things to say about Salome’s Terminal (read my review here). Luckily, I don’t really hafta sweat it anymore — NPR is now streaming the entire album, so you can check it out for yourself, and th... more info

Metalsucks — Hard to believe it’s almost November already, but there ya have it. And while the bad news is that it’s only gonna get increasingly cold and dreary, the good news is that on November 9, Profound Lore will release Terminal, the debut full-length f... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by BBG Salome wrecking Union Pool (more by Paul Birman) I've seen Salome my fair share of times in the past year, with each performance somehow inching further down the "mouth-agape-with-awe" scale than the last. They destroyed at my SXSW... more info

Metalsucks — I’ve been waiting for Terminal, the debut full-length from Salome, pretty much since I heard the band’s self-titled EP back in 2007. And I’m happy report that it was worth the wait. What sets Salome apart from the doom metal crowd is that they ... more info

Guardian Music — A staged fall can trip a theatre production up, or raise it to another levelEver since Satan plunged from heaven to hell (or, rather, from wagon-top to street) in the very first mystery play, theatre has had to engage with the problem of how to prese... more info

Perez Hilton — On Broadway, the only thing Al Pacino needs to do in order to get an entire production off the ground is make a phone call. A few years ago, Pacino starred in a play called Salome and asked his agent to book a theater that was already being used by a... more info