News Slash’s New Single Was Written From a Dog’s Point of View December 9, 2021 2:54pm In the cartoon show Metalocalypse, globe-trotting death metal band Dethklok write an album titled Dethwater that’s specifically for fish (as guitarist Skwisgaar Skwigelf puts it, “Fish don’t gots no good metal to listens to”). While the idea […]
News Slipknot’s Corey Taylor Finally Admits That His Last Mask Missed the Mark December 9, 2021 2:43pm *Editor’s note: this story was originally published on Dec 9, 2021.* As a whole, the metal community seems to agree that Corey Taylor‘s mask design for Slipknot‘s 2019 album We Are Not Your Kind was, shall we […]
Hell Yes Video: Stage-Diver Breaks Pipe at Hardcore Show, Douses Crowd In Water December 9, 2021 12:20pm Part of what makes metal and hardcore shows exciting is that anything can happen at them. Sure, tragic events of the past have upped security requirements and fan standards in recent years — if Deicide […]
Hell Yes Actor Michael “Magneto” Fassbender Was a Teenage Metal Guitarist, Loves Old-School Thrash December 9, 2021 10:54am It’s funny how often people think that someone can’t be both presentable to the mainstream world and a massive metalhead. The thought is that by being a metal fan, one is eternally mired in blasphemy […]
New Music Arch Enemy Release New Single “House of Mirrors” December 9, 2021 8:55am Back in October, Swedish melodeath game-changers Arch Enemy released their first new track in four years, the ripping “Deceiver, Deceiver.” Now, the band have dropped another new single, “House of Mirrors,” which you can hear […]
News Video: Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix and Bring Me The Horizon’s Oli Sykes Scream Along to “Last Resort” Together December 9, 2021 8:29am Put any two metal stars in a room with some drinks after hours and you’ll probably get a fun singalong out of it. No matter how hardcore and evil they are, your average metal dude […]
Hell Yes Mötley Crüe and Iron Maiden Top Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Fan Poll December 8, 2021 1:10pm This year saw the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame snub heavy metal world-conquerors Iron Maiden, who were nominated to finally be inducted but apparently hadn’t changed the face of rock music hard enough. Now, […]
Wait...What? Belgian Death Metallers Omicron Are Finally Getting Some Attention December 8, 2021 11:46am We all knew it was only a matter of time before some bands named themselves something like ‘COVID’ or ‘coronavirus.’ Metal bands have loved picking threatening substances or diseases in order to make themselves sound […]
News Christina Aguilera Performs Goth Rendition of “Genie In A Bottle” at People’s Choice Awards December 8, 2021 9:06am More and more these days, pop artists are experimenting with rock and metal in their music. Whether it’s Ed Sheeran collaborating with Cradle of Filth or Doja Cat turning her hit single “Say So” into […]
Lists The 17 Greatest Dimebag Darrell Riffs of All Time December 8, 2021 9:00am It’s hard to imagine any guitarist being as important to metal’s identity as “Dimebag” Darrell Abbot. As one fourth of Texan groove metallers Pantera, Darrell changed the genre as we know it with his mixture […]
