Slipknot
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 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 ArticleGojira Preview 'Emotional,' 'Epic' New Album
Over the past year, the songwriting core of extreme-metal group Gojira – siblings Joe and Mario Duplantier, who handle vocals and guitar and drums, respectively – went through the wringer. Their...
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,...
View ArticleCelebrating Terrorizer's Legacy, 25 Years Later
Terrorizer’s 1989 debut album World Downfall showcased what would become trademarks of the grindcore genre. That is, extremely short bursts of aggression similar to punk, but amped up by distorted...
View ArticleNo Longer Under the Radar
X Japan, the subject of the documentary “We Are X,” live at Madison Square Garden, October 2014.It’s an interesting time to be in a Japanese punk or metal band — especially, but not only, if there are...
View ArticleTankcrimes reissues Final Conflict's 'Ashes to Ashes' LP
Tankcrimes has re-released the 1987 debut album, Ashes to Ashes, by Los Angeles, California’s hardcore punk quartet Final Conflict. With the thrash of D.R.I. and Institutionalized-era Suicidal...
View ArticleSelf-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 ArticleCD Review : WATCH OUT STAMPEDE - "Tides"
Watch Out Stampede drops this massive release titled “Tides” on Sept 25th via Noizgate Records. This post-hardcore band gives you everything you enjoy listening to in that genre but they also kick it...
View ArticleCD Review: FOZZY - Do You Wanna Start A War (2014 Century Media)
Fozzy is back to deliver the beginning of a new metal revolution, and the vehicle to push the revolution is the brand new album “Do You Wanna Start A War.” With no barriers and restrictions the brains...
View ArticleShepherd – Stereolithic Riffalocalypse
Bangalore metal has got a brand new release to rep it, and that’s coming from sludge and heavy rock band Shepherd, who, as the genre tag suggests, like to dive deep into heavy atmospheric guitars, a...
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 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 Article>Music Review: AUG - 'Be Careful What You Wish For.'
Hailing from Meadowlands, New Jersey, the band AUG's second album, Be Careful What You Wish For. brings together sounds reminiscent of Guns N' Roses, Ozzy Osbourne, AC/DC, and Kiss. AUG - the name of...
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 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 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 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...
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