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Dallas Metal Venues: Where to See Thrash and Heavy Metal Live in DFW Right Now
From a 1941 neighborhood theater in Haltom City to the ballrooms of Deep Ellum and the West End, the rooms that book heavy music and what each one has on its calendar this winter.
Rex Brown: Pantera’s Bassist, From an Arlington Lab Band to the Reunion
He joined the Abbott brothers as a teenager in 1982 and is still playing those songs to stadiums in 2026. Here is the career, the records, the basses and the book.
Tom Araya in Texas: How Slayer’s Frontman Became “Completely Texan-ized”
He was born in Chile and raised in Los Angeles, and he has spent three decades in small-town East Texas. Here is the move, the ranch, the speedway and the bass.
