News Iron Maiden Cancel All 2020 Shows Due to COVID-19 Pandemic May 7, 2020 5:58pm NWOBHM icons Iron Maiden has cancelled all of the band’s previously announced shows in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and will not be playing live again until June 2021. The group broke the news […]
News Watch Sepultura Play Metal Classic “Refuse/Resist” in Quarantine May 7, 2020 4:06pm While they’re stuck at home like the rest of us, Brazilian metal titans Sepultura recently launched a weekly online event they’ve dubbed “SepulQuarta,” which sees the band members looking back on their history, answering questions […]
Interviews Venom Prison’s Ash Gray: 5 Albums That Changed My Life May 7, 2020 2:09pm Venom Prison‘s latest album, 2019’s Samsara, was one of that year’s finest extreme-metal offering, thanks in no small part to the dexterous shredding of guitarist Ash Gray. Just check out the LP’s lead single “Uterine Industrialisation” — […]
News Neurosis’ Steve Von Till Debuts New Solo Song, Announces New Album and First Book May 6, 2020 3:02pm Extreme-music fans know singer-guitarist Steve Von Till as one of the two frontmen (the other being Mastodon’s “fifth member” Scott Kelly) of Neurosis, the post-metal stalwarts responsible for such transcendent epics as Through Silver in […]
News Creeper Push Back Release Date for New Album ‘Sex, Death & the Infinite Void’ May 6, 2020 2:41pm Back in November 2019, British punks Creeper returned from purported retirement with a surprise show in London, then a month later, they dropped the captivating goth-pop single “Born Cold,” along with its sleek, sinister music […]
Interviews Ardra: 5 Surprising Albums We Love May 5, 2020 3:26pm Bay Area-based deathcore quintet Ardra recently dropped their debut full-length, Unto Leviathan, which features the ferocious single “To Walk With Fire.” “We and many others have worked so hard to bring this together,” the group […]
News See Metallica’s Full 2016 Set at London’s House of Vans, Part of Concert Streaming Series May 5, 2020 2:26pm Metallica‘s continuing “Metallica Mondays” concert series — which has seen the band unearthing pro-shot footage of shows from across their career and broadcasting it on the group’s YouTube channel and Facebook page — has been […]
Lists Mandatory Metal: 5 Essential Neurosis Songs May 4, 2020 5:21pm Heavy music is full of legendary bands boasting deep catalogs stacked with iconic songs — sometimes it can be hard to know where to start, or what to consider their best. With that in mind, […]
News Deftones’ Chino Moreno Updates Status of New Album and More May 4, 2020 3:24pm For sure one of the most anticipated records of the year is from alt-metal masters Deftones. What will be the follow-up to 2016’s Gore, has been in the works for a while and frontman Chino […]
News Hear Veil of Maya’s Crushing New Song, “Outsider” May 4, 2020 2:51pm Chicago-based metalcore-meets-djent group Veil of Maya have released a crushing new track, “Outsider.” Listen to it — and stay for the badass breakdown at the end — along with its visual madness music video below. […]