Monthly Archives: December 2008

Ask The: Charity With Shirts For A Cure Founder Mark Beemer – Win A BITPOM Shirt!

Posted by on December 18, 2008

For the last four years, punk photographer Mark Beemer’s Shirts For A Cure project has raised money towards the fight to defeat women’s breast cancer. Over 140 bands have donated their name to exclusive shirt designs, with the proceeds going towards various charities. We caught up with Beemer to talk about how the organization formed […]

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Metal By Numbers 12/17 – Christmas Time Is Here

Posted by on December 17, 2008

Metal By Numbers is a weekly coluimn in which we look at the top sellers of the week as well as what’s getting played at Metal Radio courtesy of radio trade magazine FMQB, whose metal panel consists of about 80 college and commercial stations, as well as SiriusXM, Music Choice, and more. In case you […]

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Genghis Tron, RWake, Unearthly Trance, Dsyrhmia, Brutal Truth, 16 Make Their Top Picks For 2008

Posted by on December 17, 2008

Our friends at Relapse Records sent BITPOM a gigantic list of top five and top tens of the year from a bunch of artists on their excellent roster. Instead of parceling them out, like we’d initially planned, we’re going to just give you one gigantic list of year-end goodness. Kevin Hufnagel / Dysrhythmia 1. Extra […]

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Dillinger Escape Plan Guitarist Ben Weiman Talks Garmutt, His New Metal Pet Clothing Company

Posted by on December 11, 2008

Dillinger Escape Plan guitarist Benjamin Weiman has a new side project, but it’s not a band. He’s launched a company called Garmutt that makes T-shirts and sweatshirts for dogs, With shirt designs like Black Labbath, Def Shepherd, Linkin Bark, and The Defbones’ White Puppy, Weinman is definitely going after the rock fan that’s also an […]

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Metal By Numbers 12/10 – FMQB’s Top Metal Albums of the Year

Posted by on December 10, 2008

Metal By Numbers is a weekly coluimn in which we look at the top sellers of the week as well as what’s getting played at Metal Radio courtesy of radio trade magazine FMQB, whose metal panel consists of about 80 college and commercial stations, as well as SiriusXM, Music Choice, and more. For those of […]

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The Year In Metal: Clutch, Five Finger Death Punch, The #12 Looks Like You, Trustkill’s Top Tens

Posted by on December 8, 2008

With the holidays drawing closer and almost all the new music that’s coming out released by now, it’s time to take a look at the first in a series of what some artists and music industry types liked the most in 2008. Jeremy Spencer/Five Finger Death Punch Top 10 Albums of ’08 1. Disturbed Indestructible […]

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Ask The: Graphic Designer With Portland From Sons Of Nero/Ferret – Win A Limited Edition Silkscreen!

Posted by on December 1, 2008

Chances are, you might not know the name Sons of Nero, but you’re almost definitely familiar with their work. The graphic design firm, which formed in 2000, is behind many iconic album covers, T-shirts, and Web sites, including acts like Bring Me the Horizon, In Flames, Unearth, Protest the Hero, and 36 CrazyFists. Started in […]

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