Red Electrick's new album: ‘Inside You’
Yesterday and today mark the two launch dates for Red Electrick's new album, 'Inside You'. It goes to show how big a band has become in Malta when they need two consecutive release dates because the...
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 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 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 ArticleThe 10 Most Underrated Depeche Mode Singles: Critic's Take
Alt-rock icons Depeche Mode are undoubtedly one of the best singles bands of the last 40 years, with a uniformly strong catalog that dates back to the vivacious, synth-soaked new wave of 1981's...
View ArticleAlbum Of The Week: Worm Ouroboros What Graceless Dawn
Underground metal is a funny thing. These days, it feels less like a genre and more like a loose constellation of vaguely connected mini-scenes. Case in point: Our picks for Album Of The Week, both...
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 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 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 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 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 Article36 Essential ’80s Pop Metal Tracks
The biggest difference between the heavy metal of today and heavy metal during the glory days of the 1980s is that today it is rife with division. Mainstream versus underground. “Extreme” versus...
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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleSummer 2017: Your guide to hundreds of Southern California concerts
If you’re looking to get out, have some fun in the sun and to lose your voice singing along to live music this summer, there is certainly no shortage of big tours and ginormous multi-day festivals...
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...
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