Interviews Red Fang’s Bryan Giles: “I Get To Be My Worst Self In This Band” May 6, 2021 12:52pm Put on Arrows, the new album by Portland stoner rockers Red Fang, and you might not get the chugs you’re looking for. Sure, opening track “Take It Back” and follower “Unreal Estate” are heavy as hell, […]
Premieres Exclusive Premiere: Italy’s Reality Grey Speak Truth to Power In May 6, 2021 11:00am There’s a steadfastness to Reality Grey that’s vital to the music they make. While many bands have tried, floundered, and failed at the art of metalcore and melodeath, the Italian five-piece embrace the genre with […]
New Music HEALTH and Nine Inch Nails Drop Heavy New Collaboration “Isn’t Everyone” May 6, 2021 10:37am Industrial shadowmongers HEALTH have seen their star rise considerably over the past couple of years with their seething, bass-heavy brand of dark electronic music. Now, the band have reached perhaps the greatest benchmark that any […]
News Willow Smith Reunites Wicked Wisdom As A Mother’s Day Gift to Jada Pinkett Smith May 6, 2021 7:41am Most people know Jada Pinkett Smith as the star of Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (man, how good is Demon Knight?). But in the early 2000s, Smith was also the vocalist for Wicked Wisdom, a […]
Hell Yes How Metal Is This: Man Makes Whip Out of Heavy Chains May 5, 2021 2:24pm Metalheads love using “metal” as an adjective. When something is violent, dramatic, extreme, or just straight-up insane, it earns itself the designation of “metal.” But it’s worth noting that some things are just more metal […]
News Watch Gojira’s Mario Duplantier Drumming for ‘The Late Show with Seth Meyers’ May 5, 2021 11:45am Last week saw French experimental neck-kickers Gojira release Fortitude, their most ambitious and accessible album thus far. Now, the band’s drummer Mario Duplantier has added another notch to his belt by drummer for The Late Show […]
News Chthonic’s Freddy Lim: “Movements Like BLM and Stop Asian Hate Really Inspire Taiwanese People” May 5, 2021 9:11am Given his dual career paths, it’s safe to say Freddy Lim has experienced a unique cross-section of global culture. As the frontman of Taiwanese symphonic black metallers Chthonic, Freddy has played to screaming headbangers the […]
News Rammstein Frontman Till Lindemann’s Insane Moscow Solo Show Is Coming to Theaters May 5, 2021 8:23am When he’s not fronting world-renowned German industrial metallers Rammstein, Till Lindemann has his own solo project — named, you guessed it, Lindemann — alongside Hypocrisy/Pain frontman Peter Tägtgren, in which he makes psychosexual party rock […]
News Megadeth and Lamb of God Announce Rescheduled North American Tour Dates May 4, 2021 12:26pm Like every other band in the world, thrash titans Megadeth were forced to reschedule their 2020 tour with Lamb of God, Trivium, and In Flames last year. Now, the band have revealed the new dates […]
Features How Spawn Gave ’90s Metal Fans A Champion All Their Own May 4, 2021 10:51am In the ‘90s, heavy music and comics were both fighting hard to prove their legitimacy. The former was trying to shed the sparkly cheese and/or softcore satanism of the ‘80s, and embrace either tough-guy realism […]
