Lists 5 Great Converge Side Projects May 1, 2020 11:50am New England juggernaut Converge are bona fide hardcore royalty with at least one all-time classic, 2001’s Jane Doe, to their name, along with a legacy of adventurous, forward-thinking heavy music. But the band members have […]
Interviews Mantric’s Tor Magne Glidje: 5 Weirdest Places I’ve Stayed on Tour April 30, 2020 2:25pm Tour life might seem glamorous and fun, but it ain’t for the faint of heart. Between the homesickness and long drives, there’s also the issue of where to rest your head each night. Up-and-coming bands […]
Lists 5 Bands That Wouldn’t Exist Without Emperor April 27, 2020 2:39pm Second wave of black metal tyrants Emperor blew down the gates with such seminal frostbitten masterpieces as 1994’s In the Nightside Eclipse and 1997’s Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk, spearheading the symphonic black-metal style […]
Lists Mandatory Metal: 5 Essential Trivium Songs April 24, 2020 3:52pm 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 Witchskull’s Joel Green: Songs to Live By April 23, 2020 4:08pm At its heart, music is all about emotion. Witchskull know this. The Australian doom trio conjure all sorts of epic, eerie, occult-infused feelings on their forthcoming third full-length, A Driftwood Cross, due out April 24th […]
Interviews Warbringer’s John Kevill: 8 Pieces Of Military History That Metal Fans Should Know About April 23, 2020 2:55pm Frontman John Kevill of battle-scarred thrashers Warbringer lists the moments in warfare’s bloody history that deserve as many anthems as D-Day and Gettysburg. Warbringer aren’t here to give you the battle hymn you might think […]
Interviews Polaris’ Daniel Furnari: My Dream Supergroup April 23, 2020 2:54pm Like every music fan, the members of Australian metalcore band Polaris have their heroes, and those influences play out on the quintet’s latest album, February’s The Death of Me, the follow-up to the group’s 2017 […]
Lists Love Nu-Metal? Here are 10 Bands to Check Out. April 22, 2020 2:25pm Nu-metal is often remembered for its high highs, its low lows, and its red hat-wearing fans of Limp Bizkit. While this little subgenre divided many metal fans during the hey-day of late 1990s to early […]
Interviews Sojourner’s Chloe Bray: 5 Surprising Albums I Love April 17, 2020 2:54pm Multinational folk-metal quintet Sojourner — whose members hail from New Zealand, Sweden and Italy — are prepping their new, third album, Premonitions, for release on May 8th via Napalm Records. Majestic, heartfelt and progressive, the […]
Interviews Winterfylleth’s Simon Lucas: 5 Albums That Changed My Life April 15, 2020 2:58pm It’s been two years since U.K. black-metal warriors Winterfylleth released the acoustic folk album The Hallowing of Heirdom, and now, much to the delight of corpse-paint commandos everywhere, the band is back to sonic destruction […]