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Just shy of three years ago, this blog featured a piece about a trailer for an upcoming album by Sonic Mayhem. Filled with mechanized, audio-visual fury, it was a high concept and very bold way of advertising a new music release. Doomsday has just dropped, and the end result is an engaging piece of aural malevolence which stands up to the visceral, visual assault which heralded it.

Legendary actor, consummate on-screen villain, and lest we forget, his most recent foray into heavy metal. He truly did it his way.

On June 3rd, 1970 Deep Purple In Rock was unleashed. It was the band's fourth studio album and fifth overall in just under two years. It was the first studio release for the legendary Mk II line up (the live Concerto for Group and Orchestra was released just six months prior, but that's another song) and despite not receiving the lion's share of post-2K resurgent popularity which their peers have, Deep Purple In Rock stands monumentally as an icon of first generation hard rock and a blue print of the future for the genre of heavy metal.

Sometimes, an accordion rendition of the jazz standard is just what you need to hear to put a smile on your face. Props to Stanislav Samuel Raška for this performance. You do have to hand it to YouTuber Stanislav, as the majority of his accordion variations are classical pieces. And "Crazy Frog". So clearly this is a expansion of his musical boundaries, and in a very positive direction indeed. Tweet Follow @LinerNotes    

"Mark" by Tim Beard It was 20 years ago today, that Rex Manning got his Day. April 8th, 1995 was the day portrayed in the movie Empire Records as the first Rex Manning Day. How do we know this? It's right there in the movie! While most of you probably knew that, it was very interesting to see so many people on social media today asking, "what is #RexManningDay?" Even more interesting though, were the new and clever ways the Rex Manning faithful have upped their game to celebrate the day where we mustn't despair!

Hodor Hodor! Hodor Hodor Hodor! (Holds lighter up in the air calling for an encore) Hodor! Tweet Follow @LinerNotes    

"Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most.... human."

45 years ago today, The Doors released Morrison Hotel , what many considered at the time to be a comeback album. Featuring songs recorded over several years and released as the follow up to 1969's The Soft Parade , the album featured the radio staple "Roadhouse Blues" along with 10 other Doors' classics. Come inside and check out how the exterior featured on the album cover looks today, and find out how another Los Angeles-born band is filling in a missing piece of the Hotel legacy.

Happy New Year! (Hey, it's still January!) So, you've finally taken down the Christmas lights and the Festivus Pole and are already tired of the end cap displays at every store telling you that your SO needs that questionable box of chocolate on Valentine's Day? Well, intrepid holiday celebrant, you mustn't despair. You can't! Because now you can be ready weeks, even months early for the most important holiday of the year: Rex Manning Day!