CD review: Denver's Red Tide Rising continue to evolve on Voices EP
Denver’s Red Tide Rising is constantly working to tighten and refine its sound, a journey that continues on its latest EP, Voices. In an era where digital downloads often overshadow the creative...
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 ArticleDetroit sci-fi thrashers Euphoria go from warp speed to shred
Space is the place for stupidly fast riffing, triumphant guitar harmonies, inhuman shrieks, and shirtless headbanging as far as Detroit sci-fi themed thrash-metal band Euphoria is concerned. Formed in...
View ArticleA different shade of Blakc: Spend a musical night unreleased tracks from The...
Dopamine is a drug that the body releases when one is high. Dopamine is also the name of a song by Mumbai-based Alternative and Post Grunge group, Blakc. Through catchy choruses and heavy riffs, the...
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 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 ArticleToronto heavyweights Olde still making noise
Question: What do you call a gig that draws noise complaints from three floors of an office building? Answer: One of Olde’s quieter shows. Such is the power of these Toronto heavyweights that their...
View ArticleBand To Watch: Angel Du$t
When I was growing up in Baltimore in the ’90s, the city had basically no hardcore scene. We had one great band — Torn Apart — but that was basically it. For the most part, we were a crust-punk town....
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 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 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 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 ArticleA Wilhelm Scream – PARTYCRASHER Album Review: All Eleven Tracks Analysed
[rating: 4] For decades, the essence of punk rock has been community; encouraging the belief that fans are as much a part of the band as the band’s music is a part of a fan’s life. The style encourages...
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 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 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 ArticleRed 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 'Master of Puppets': Metal Musicians Reflect on the Band's...
Released on March 3, 1986, Metallica’s Master of Puppets was the album that cracked the 1980s in half for metal. The mad thrashing sound that emerged from the San Francisco Bay Area in the early '80s...
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 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...
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