Album 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleMemorable Moments of 2016: Rock on the Range (Columbus Crew)
(Source: Columbus Crew) With 2016 coming to a close, Columbus Crew SC is looking back on some of its most memorable moments of 2016. This year was full of moments that will be remembered forever. Rock...
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...
View Article'I Can't Help But Ask Myself If This is the Best We've Got'
Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine doesn't need an election year to inspire a little socio-political snarl in his songs. But rest-assured there are plenty of those on the band's new album, Dystopia. "It's...
View ArticleMegadeth's Dave Mustaine Talks 2016 Politics: ‘We’ve Kind of Lost What...
For more than a decade now, Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine has been critical about politicians and distressed by the establishment. But even as the metal veteran lashed out at corruption, greed, and...
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