Lists Happy St. Patrick’s Day: Here Are 10 Killer Irish Bands You’ve Probably Never Heard Of March 17, 2021 8:18am In America, St. Patrick’s Day is most commonly celebrated with an explosion of Guinness and The Pogues. For us, the day is to Ireland as Halloween is to goth — a celebration of all the […]
Features Gama Bomb’s Philly Byrne: Why The Northern Ireland Peace Process Was Great For Thrash Metal March 17, 2021 7:58am As a band we’ve never made a big deal of the fact we’re from Northern Ireland, probably because we didn’t see the Troubles as an appropriate topic for thrash metal — we just never wrote […]
News Sevendust Will Play ‘Home’ and ‘Seasons’ In Their Entirety for New Livestream Performances March 16, 2021 2:08pm While many bands of the nu-metal era are remembered with either rolling eyes or lengthy explanations of why they actually rule, Sevendust have come out of that movement relatively unscathed. The band’s early material remains […]
News Riz Ahmed and Paul Raci Nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor Oscars for ‘Sound of Metal’ March 16, 2021 12:37pm Earlier this year, Amazon released their new film Sound of Metal, in which a metal drummer copes with the loss of his hearing. The movie received critical acclaim from most publications (even though its use of […]
News Wolfgang Van Halen Declined Grammys’ Invitation to Play “Eruption” During Ceremony March 16, 2021 10:22am Sunday night saw the 2021 Grammy Awards go down to much acclaim, occasional derision, and huge excitement from metal fans after Body Count won the Best Metal Performance Grammy. But one part of the show […]
RIP ‘Metal Edge’ Magazine Editor Gerri Miller Has Died March 16, 2021 8:10am Sad news for the metal and rock community today, as Gerri Miller, the longtime editor of heavy metal magazine Metal Edge, has passed away. She is believed to have been 67 years old, though this has […]
New Music Watch Members of Powerman 5000, The Black Dahlia Murder, Run the Jewels and More Cover the Dance Hits of the ’90s March 15, 2021 3:09pm Last we left those delightful cream puffs over at Two Minutes to Late Night, they were laying down some gnarly grooves via a bitching cover of Pantera’s “Mouth for War.” So it was only fitting that […]
Interviews ERRA’s Jesse Cash: “We’ve Simplified Everything to Elevate Our Music” March 15, 2021 12:04pm For the first time in their careers, ERRA feel they have the room to do what they want. Since 2009, the Birmingham, Alabama, melodic metalcore crew have worked hard to hone their sound into something […]
Premieres Exclusive Stream: Sweden’s Reaper Lead an Unhinged Thrash Assault on Pissed-Off New Album March 15, 2021 10:59am If modern metal was a theme park, Sweden’s Reaper would be a breakneck roller coaster known for lopping off careless riders’ hands. The duo make harsh, charging thrash that feels duly reverent to old gods […]
News This Dethklok-Inspired Cover of “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” Will Make You a Friend of Dorothy March 15, 2021 8:39am In retrospect, The Wizard of Oz is metal as hell. There are witches all over the place, a scene where everyone gets high as shit in a field of poppies, a dude made of actual metal, […]
