Metallica'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...
View ArticleLiving up to their metal
When you’re Gojira, one of the metal world’s most revered bands for their unsparing brutal brand of death, groove and experimental metal, there’s certainly a lot of pressure to prove yourself. The band...
View ArticleKrokodil
With their debut Nachash, British progressive metal band Krokodil (not to be confused with the now-defunct 60s Swiss prog/krautrock act of the same name) have immediately announced themselves as a...
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 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 ArticleThe Playlist: metal – Fear Factory, Baby in Vain and more
Your latest dose of heavy metal medicine features bowel-shredding breakcore, an untamed trio of teens and the sound of one of the genre’s greatest bands...
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 ArticleCD review: Judas Priest continue iconic legacy with Redeemer of Souls
Six years have passed since fans last had a taste of new Judas Priest music, the last being 2008′s multi-disc concept effort, Nostradamus. This month not only brings a hellacious slab of classic Metal...
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...
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 ArticleMegadeth
Megadeth seriously needed to refocus after the massive misstep that was 2013's Super Collider. The fourteenth studio album by the thrash metal pioneers highlighted the periodic carelessness of...
View ArticleMegadeth Singer Goes From Thrashing Guitars to Threshing Wheat
A A Facebook- Twitter - More shares recommend reddit email - - In this unprecedented and pretty bizarre period of U.S. Presidential politics, pundits still pull out the hoary old line that goes “which...
View ArticleMarty Friedman After Megadeth: His 11 Years As A Superstar In Japan
Marty Friedman, left Megadeth in 2000, after 10 years of headbanging to his heavy metal guitar beside Dave Mustaine. In those days, at times, Marty’s dark curly locks overlapped Dave Mustaine’s fiery...
View ArticleInside Megadeth's Virtual Reality Adventure
Dave Mustaine is spinning slowly in a chair, holding a visor tight over his eyes, as he enjoys a rare experience: watching Megadeth perform live. He's looking at rehearsal footage of his thrash metal...
View Article10 Greatest Thrash Metal Debut Albums Of All Time
On June 12, 1985, Megadeth stunned hard rock fans everywhere with their maiden long-playing weapon of thrash destruction, Killing Is My Business… and Business Is Good. It’s been rocking the universe...
View ArticleMegadeth's Dystopic Visions Have Almost Come True
For more than 30 years, singer/guitarist Dave Mustaine has guided thrash-metal kings Megadeth through shifting musical, social, and political landscapes with a guttural growl, shredded notes, and...
View ArticleMegadeth moves forward with old sound, new members
Three decades, fifteen albums and countless lineups later, Megadeth is going back to the basics. With “Dystopia,” frontman Dave Mustaine wanted to stay in line with fans’ expectations: opting for a...
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