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Can you remember the first time you ever came face to face with extreme metal? It's a feeling cherished by unwashed longhairs the world over, and one that has a tendency to reoccur every time metal...
View ArticleHear Megadeth's Thrashy, Heavy New 'Fatal Illusion'
Megadeth kick off their first new song since 2013's Super Collider album with a heavy, creepy guitar line before kicking into jazz bass and a galloping thrash riff that harks back to the group's early...
View ArticleExclusive interview: Finland’s Kuolemanlaakso revitalizes classic doom metal
Finnish music label Svart Records has made a name for itself by exposing the world to esoteric, genre-bending, and even genre-breaking music. In a relatively short span of time, Svart has done...
View ArticleFirst Listen: PUP, 'The Dream Is Over'
i PUP's new album, The Dream Is Over, comes out May 27. Vanessa Heins/Courtesy of the artist hide caption toggle caption Vanessa Heins/Courtesy of the artist PUP's new album, The Dream Is Over, comes...
View ArticleCD review: Night Ranger takes 'High Road' to vintage sound
Bay Area hard rockers Night Ranger returned in 2012 with an album, Somewhere in California, that brought many fans of the band back to the fold after a long absence. This is not to say that the band...
View ArticleCD Review RED SUN RISING Polyester Zeal
Red Sun Rising – Polyester Zeal (2015 Razor & Tie) The Akron, OH band Red Sun Rising has just released their latest efforts titled Polyester Zeal and I have had the opportunity to listen to this...
View ArticleBabymetal shreds heavy-metal's seriousness at the Fonda
The most subversive, rage-inducing act in heavy metal played the Fonda on Sunday night. The group is fronted by three Japanese teenage girls in pigtails who make heart-shaped hand gestures onstage and...
View ArticleAlbum review: Light Up The Sky - "NightLife"
Light Up The Sky, a five-piece rock band from Spokane, Washington, has already had a busy 2016: they're preparing for a summer tour with metalcore band Myka Relocate and modern rock band Out Came the...
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 ArticleDeftones - 'Gore' Review
How does an act get tagged ‘the metal Radiohead’? Innovate and challenge at every turn? Inspire a generation with songs that appear to have been given their titles by a cat walking across a caps-locked...
View ArticleUli Jon Roth stings The Korova by revisiting influential Scorpions past
It was a night of guitar greatness last Saturday at The Korova, with the featured attraction delving 40 years into his past and taking the time to jam with his support acts. Uli Jon Roth, who spent...
View ArticleDead Unsung Heroes in Music: Terry Kath
Jimi Hendrix famously said in an interview with Dick Cavett that he wasn’t “the best guitar player”. Much less famously he said to Walter Parazaider of the band Chicago “Your horns are like one set of...
View Article10 More Criminally Overlooked Hard Rock + Heavy Metal Albums
Not long ago, we published a celebration of The 10 Most Criminally Overlooked Albums in Hard Rock + Heavy Metal that featured Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith and other lords of loudness. Keeping...
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 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 ArticleImagine Dragons – Smoke + Mirrors
You have to admit it. When it comes to modern rock, hip-hop and EDM, nobody blends them to perfection like American band Imagine Dragons. Smoke + Mirrors blends all this with incredible song-writing...
View ArticleSlipknot
Like most bands who have existed for a couple of decades, Slipknot's history is littered with trials and tribulations; from chart-smashing records (including a 2006 Grammy for 'Before I Forget') and...
View ArticleDakesis - The New Dawn. London Album Launch tickets
The Black Heart in London Friday 1st April 2016 7:00pm til 11:00pm Minimum Age: 18 An all female fronted hard rock and melodic metal show, to mark the London launch of the new Dakesis album, The New...
View ArticleAre Depeche Mode Metal's Biggest Secret Influence?
When Depeche Mode titled their 1990 album Violator, it was supposed to be taken ironically. The previous year had seen smarmy hair-mongers like Bon Jovi, Bad English and Poison scoring Number Ones with...
View ArticleFrom Truth and Time CD from Eye The Realist
If there is a band who embraces the local scene more than the band Eye The Realist please come forward. The pop-punk quartet has been spreading their music around the LA area for about three years now,...
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