Deftones - '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 ArticleDeforme and Impaled Offering CD release show at Albuquerque’s Launchpad
On June 25, Albuquerque’s Launchpad hosts a CD release show for Deforme and Impaled Offering. Also on hand this evening will be Torture Victim, Suspended, Fields of Elysium, and Holocaustic. Doors for...
View ArticleAlbums of the week: From Augustines to The Mirror Trap
American indie-rockers Augustines present what could finally be their breakthrough album, This Is Your Life; award-winning crooner Tom Odell returns with Wrong Crowd, and Scottish boys The Mirror Trap...
View Article10 Metal Bands Who Should Be in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
A A Facebook- Twitter - More shares recommend reddit email - - On April 8, Deep Purple was finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York, an honor long overdue for true fans of the...
View ArticleKagoule: That was me trying to not write a song
Image: Kagoule Guitarist and lead vocalist Cai answers the phone on a Friday afternoon and self declares he's hungover, "I had an album launch last night at Rough Trade with a free bar." He then adds,...
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 Article'A noise designed to outrage': how the Guardian has covered heavy metal
As Metallica’s Black Album turns 25, read Guardian and Observer coverage of the much-maligned metal genre from its inception almost 50 years ago...
View Article(ALBUM REVIEW) Attik Door Slam The Door On Posers With Never In Agreement
BAND: Attick Door MEMBERS: Vocals: Liana Toymasyan Bass: Margarita Grabarova Drums: Igor Boyko Guitar: Alex Shrayber Guitar: Tim Shulepov ALBUM: Never In Agreement (2/7/15) PRODUCTION: Attik Door and...
View ArticleViking's Choice: Vektor, 'Charging The Void'
i Vektor. Katy DiSanto/Courtesy of the artist hide caption toggle caption Katy DiSanto/Courtesy of the artist Vektor. Katy DiSanto/Courtesy of the artist Flashing a giddy smile under a curly mop of...
View ArticleSoulfly have an instant classic with 'Archangel'
Max Cavalera is know for being one of the godfathers of modern hardcore and thrash metal due to his former band Sepultura and current bands Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy. The latest Soulfly release...
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 ArticleThe 10 Best Prog Metal Bands
Progressive metal, unlike other sub-genres of heavy metal, borrows heavily from hard rock, classical rock and early heavy metal influences. Although several of the bands on this list might not...
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 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...
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