It’s no secret that every Slipknot tour is a cultural event within metal. The Iowan nine-piece McFuckIt meal are one of the genre’s most compelling live acts, promising not only an explosive stage spectacle but […]
For a hot second, movie soundtracks were where heavy music fans could find some of the best metal, hardcore, punk and industrial out there. The intensity of contemporary metal and hard rock in the ’90s […]
Let’s be real: none of us came to metal because we go along to get along. The truth is that the majority of metalheads are in some ways harsh, hostile, antisocial, and outspoken, and the […]
Perhaps the healthiest part of listening to metal is how the music provides an outlet for negative emotions. While so many other artists urge their listeners to forget the bad things and focus on the […]
Nu-metal was always wanting of legitimacy, mired as it was in white-boy angst and rockstar bullshit. So much of the genre’s struggle was that of being taken seriously, with the answer usually coming as a […]
To quote some meme we recently saw, in six months 2020 will be two years ago. That idea is absolutely terrifying — sometimes, it feels like this entire year has simply been a hangover after […]
Earlier this year, deathcore stalwarts Carnifex surprised a fan or two by releasing an utterly brutal cover of a song that’s perhaps a little more mainstream than their usual fare: “Dead Bodies Everywhere,” the track […]
Yesterday, the rock world was crushed to learn that Charlie Watts, drummer for The Rolling Stones and one of the most influential drummers in music history, had died at the age of 80. This hit […]
Hindsight is always 20/20, but in the case of the ’90s, that vision is deeply impaired. Today, metal fans like the remember the ’90s as a creatively-fertile time when even the whitest of dudes could […]
For the most part, metal fans associate black metal with Scandinavia and old-world Europe. This is in part because it’s where the genre saw its biggest bloom, in the late ’80s and early ’90s in […]
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