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Mandatory Metal: 5 Essential Rush Songs
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, […]
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Mandatory Metal: 5 Essential Black Label Society Songs
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, […]
Interviews
Victorius’ Dirk Scharsich: 5 Albums That Changed My Life
There are plenty of swords and sorcery–themed power-metal bands. There are plenty of military history–themed power-metal bands. But ninja-themed power-metal bands? There may be only one: Germany’s Victorius. As the ass-kicking, hard-shredding quintet prepare to […]
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Mandatory Metal: 5 Essential Volbeat Songs
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, […]
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Polyphia’s Clay Gober: My Dream Supergroup
Texan progressive-metal crew Polyphia are a supergroup unto themselves. Instrumental virtuosos, they shred like nobody’s business — just crank up their last album, 2018’s New Levels New Devils, which incorporates elements of pop, EDM, funk and […]
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Misery Loves Co.’s Patrik Wirén: 5 Surprising Songs I Love
Swedish industrial-metal veterans Misery Loves Co. broke up 20 years ago after releasing three explosive albums — 1995’s self-titled offering, 1997’s Not Like Them and 2000’s Your Vision Was Never Mine to Share — which […]
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Apocalyptica’s Mikko Sirén Picks Best Albums, Movie, Concert of 2019
Finnish cello-rockers Apocalyptica first made their names with their neoclassical covers of Metallica songs. They then went on to make original music with big-name guest singers ranging from Slipknot and Stone Sour’s Corey Taylor to […]
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Daughters’ Jon Syverson Picks 10 Best Albums of 2019
Daughters have been on an absolute tear over the last couple years. The Providence, Rhode Island, grindcore-turned-noise-rock crew’s 2018 comeback album, You Won’t Get What You Want — the band’s first in nearly a decade […]
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Jaye Jayle’s Evan Patterson Picks 10 Best Albums of 2019
Evan Patterson first made his name with Kentucky noise-rock-scarred post-hardcore outfit Young Widows. Today, he’s oriented his musical talents in a very different but no less dark trajectory, leading the goth-Americana group Jaye Jayle. Originally […]
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Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley Picks 11 “Loved Albums” of 2019
Long-running drone lords Sunn O))) released not one but two new albums in 2019, Life Metal and its companion piece Pyroclasts, and have been playing gut-rumbling live shows in perpetual search of “the brown note” […]