Self-titled album by Vile Display of Humanity kicks ass
Vile Display of Humanity is a thrash punk hardcore metal band that really reaches the levels of pure punk rock. With their self-released, self-titled album, the punk band from Chicago straight up kicks...
View ArticleMetallica's Top 10 Greatest Songs: Critic's Picks
In a little more than a month, Metallica’s Hardwired… To Self Destruct will hit stores. It’s been a while since we heard from the legends -- eight years, in fact, since they released Death Magnetic,...
View ArticleRed Electrick's new album: ‘Inside You’
Yesterday and today mark the two launch dates for Red Electrick's new album, 'Inside You'. It goes to show how big a band has become in Malta when they need two consecutive release dates because the...
View ArticleTrigram - Trigram
“I'll keep digging/Till I feel something”. The perplexed yet resolute battle-cry of Generation Y, the brood of seekers who propagated a new renaissance of transmuted hippyism in their own jaded...
View ArticleMetallica's 'Master of Puppets': Metal Musicians Reflect on the Band's...
Released on March 3, 1986, Metallica’s Master of Puppets was the album that cracked the 1980s in half for metal. The mad thrashing sound that emerged from the San Francisco Bay Area in the early '80s...
View ArticleMetallica's Top 10 Greatest Riffs: 'Enter Sandman,' 'Master of Puppets' & Beyond
Let’s give thanks for Metallica this Thanksgiving, because today -- Black Friday -- is now “Blackened Friday.” Rising to the occasion by helping small businesses during the biggest shopping day of the...
View ArticleShania Twain's New Album 'Now': Track-by-Track Guide
When Shania Twain took a break from the music industry more than a dozen years ago, she exited as a country-pop queen. Her songs were ubiquitous on both sides of the Atlantic, with Come On Over – her...
View ArticleCementing their reputation
If there is one band rock and metal fans can trust, it is Deftones. The American alternative metal band have always managed to make their fans rejoice with every release, for delivering the kind of...
View ArticleThe 10 Most Underrated Depeche Mode Singles: Critic's Take
Alt-rock icons Depeche Mode are undoubtedly one of the best singles bands of the last 40 years, with a uniformly strong catalog that dates back to the vivacious, synth-soaked new wave of 1981's...
View ArticleAlbum Of The Week: Worm Ouroboros What Graceless Dawn
Underground metal is a funny thing. These days, it feels less like a genre and more like a loose constellation of vaguely connected mini-scenes. Case in point: Our picks for Album Of The Week, both...
View ArticleC.R.O.W.N.
France's C.R.O.W.N. create industrial post-metal that scours your psyche raw, cracking the core musical and elemental middle-ground between Neurosis and Godflesh. That's not to say that C.R.O.W.N. are...
View ArticleAnthrax Celebrates The 30th Anniversary Of Its Classic "Spreading The...
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- On November 20, three decades after its October 30, 1985 debut, Universal will release a special 30th anniversary edition of Anthrax's classic Spreading The...
View ArticleReview: Art of Anarchy Album Featuring Scott Weiland and Bumblefoot
Art of Anarchy was announced in January 2015 as a hard rock 'super group' featuring former Stone Temple Pilots/Velvet Revolver singer Scott Weiland, solo artist/Guns N' Roses' guitarist Ron...
View Article36 Essential ’80s Pop Metal Tracks
The biggest difference between the heavy metal of today and heavy metal during the glory days of the 1980s is that today it is rife with division. Mainstream versus underground. “Extreme” versus...
View ArticleA Female-Fronted Japanese Metal Band Just Took Over Colbert, and They Won’t...
The J-pop band Babymetal might be ready for American mainstream; on Wednesday they appeared on The Late Show, a trio of chipper, hyper-choreographed Japanese girls harmonizing and talk-singing about...
View ArticleJudas Priest – 10 of the best
From mid-70s eclecticism to the definition of early-80s metal, and a latter-day reformation with singer Rob Halford, the band is a scream...
View ArticleDance Gavin Dance – Acceptance Speech Album Review: All Eleven Tracks Analyzed
[rating: 3.5] For a band that harbors one of modern rock’s most electrifying, melodically creative guitarists currently active, they sure don’t get many questions about him. Following the release of...
View ArticleDead Kennedys – 10 of the best
From a song about a failed sexual escapade to a 20-second mini-masterpiece, here’s our pick of tracks by the California punk tearaways...
View Article10 Essential Glassjaw Songs For The Post-Hardcore Band's Return
Having released two beloved albums in the early noughties, ferocious post-hardcore New York group Glassjaw have unleashed their first new song – the pulsating ‘New White Extremity’ – since the 2011 EP...
View ArticleSoundmankillz stretches genres on 'Until the End'
Listening to the sophomore album from Soundmankillz, one immediately lays to waste any misconceptions that the Phoenix-based act is another cog in the metalcore machine. Catapulting off the inevitable...
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