Review: 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 ArticleMetal band Torche's new album 'Restarter' is smeared with punk and pop...
There's a notion among nincompoops that all heavy metal essentially sounds the same. Well, the nincompoops aren't wrong. Especially where the hard core gets corer — death metal, doom metal, sludge...
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 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 ArticleMost anticipated albums of 2016: Dystopia released during NAMM week
Dave Mustaine, the mastermind behind Megadeth and the keeper of heavy metal's thrash legacy, did what most longtime legends after decades of evolving their music fail to do - a successful return to his...
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...
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