Interviews Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia: How The Band’s COVID-19 Experience Led to Their Livestream Event September 9, 2020 10:15am More than anything, Cristina Scabbia is incredibly aware. While many musicians seem content to live in the contained world of their practice spaces and tour buses — and given how long and storied her band’s […]
News Watch Power Trip’s Full Set from Sound and Fury 2019 September 9, 2020 9:02am One thing that set Texas thrashers Power Trip apart from so many other bands like them was their live show. The quintet’s records were killer, to be sure, but it was watching them crush those […]
News Rob Zombie’s ‘Halloween’ Holds Labor Day Box Office Record 13 Years Running September 8, 2020 1:45pm It seems like 13 years is the amount of time that it has taken for rock and metal fans to come around on Rob Zombie‘s remake of John Carpenter’s 1978 slasher classic Halloween. Only last week, […]
News Watch Members of Mastodon, Converge and More Cover Robyn In The Style of Thin Lizzy September 8, 2020 12:50pm Last we saw of those Two Minutes to Late Night scamps, they had just orchestrated an incredible cover of Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing In The Name” in the style of Slayer. Given how relevant […]
Wait...What? Hatebreed’s Jamey Jasta Now Makes ‘Jasta Pasta’ September 8, 2020 11:56am Every dad out there can agree that there are some stupid jokes that just can’t be resisted. Sure, the world may groan and roll its collective eyes at you for cracking these absolutely cornball gags, […]
Lists Ihsahn’s 10 Favorite Pop Songs of the ’80s September 8, 2020 10:30am These days, Ihsahn can do whatever he wants. The former frontman of Norwegian black metal legends Emperor has forged a solo career of beautiful, bizarre, and sometimes baffling experimental music that would make your average […]
News Metallica’s ‘S&M2’ Beats Katy Perry’s ‘Smile’ In First-Week Sales Numbers September 8, 2020 8:48am One likes to think that in recent years, metal has become at least slightly less antagonistic toward the pop music world. As digital streaming and on-demand video make airtime and magazine space less of a […]
New Music Spirit Adrift’s New Single Is Heavy Metal At Its Best September 4, 2020 12:34pm Arizona-based epic metallers Spirit Adrift have tamed the time warp at heavy metal’s core. The band always sounds current, informed by the late 2000s’ doom explosion out of Texas and Arkansas. But frontman Nate Garrett […]
Lists Love System of a Down? Here Are Five Bands You Should Know September 4, 2020 11:00am It’s hard to think of other acts that a System of a Down diehard would also like. That’s because the Armenian-American alt-metal quartet have always made an effort to sound as unique as they do […]
New Music Napalm Death’s New Single and Video Will Gut You In All The Right Ways September 4, 2020 10:30am If you’re looking to escape the troubles of the everyday world, don’t listen to Napalm Death. The British grindcore forefathers have more important things on their minds, namely ripping out the sick, apathetic heart of […]
