Wade Allison
Blast Rites: December 2020’s Hottest Metal
Welcome to Blast Rites, SPIN’s monthly metal column! Every month we’ll dig up the heaviest metal out there, stylistic boundaries be damned. Hot albums, hot tracks, hot whatever — we’ll bring only the most hellish heat. This month, we’ll bust open operatic black metal, filthy Danish death metal, and a split featuring Houston grindcore legends and Australia’s burliest bruisers, as well as remembering Cynic bassist Sean Malone. Folterkammer – Die Lederpredigt (Gilead Media) Not since Reed St. Mark joining Celtic Frost for their landmark LP To Mega Therion has such a formidable Swiss-American metal alliance emerged: Folterkammer, with their debut Die Lederpredigt, bring together Imperial Triumphant guitarist Zachary Ezrin and Swiss vocalist Andromeda Anarchia for black metal with operatic voca...
Iron Age Guitarist Wade Allison Dies
Wade Allison, guitarist for Texas hardcore band Iron Age, has passed away. 20 Buck Spin, the label that reissued the band’s 2009 album The Sleeping Eye last year, confirmed the news via Instagram. “RIP Wade. So very grateful to you for giving me an opportunity to be a small part of the @realironage lore,” they wrote. “Condolences to all his friends and family. Iron Age’s impact is huge and will reverberate in hardcore and metal for a long time to come.” A cause of death has yet to be revealed. Aside from The Sleeping Eye, Iron Age’s debut album 2006’s Constant Struggle was also influential in the world of hardcore. In 2017, Riley Gale of fellow Texas thrash band Power Trip, praised Allison’s guitar work in an interview with The Guardian. “Power Trip definitely woul...
