News Tool Play Their First Show Since COVID Lockdown, Setlist and Fan Footage Available January 11, 2022 10:35am Last night saw Tool kick off their massive 2022 tour in Eugene, Oregon, making that the first show they’ve played since March 11th, 2020 — right before the pandemic shut down everything on earth. Now, […]
News Megadeth Announce Second Leg of ‘The Metal Tour of the Year’ With Lamb of God, Trivium, and In Flames January 11, 2022 10:00am Last year saw Megadeth, Lamb of God, Trivium, and Hatebreed hit the road on ‘The Metal Tour of the Year,’ which proved to be one of 2021’s most successful tours. Now, the bands have decided […]
News Thrash Legend Dave Lombardo Posts Powerful Farewell to His Mom: “She Was My First Fan” January 10, 2022 8:51pm At this point in his career, Dave Lombardo needs no introduction to fans. As the founding drummer of Slayer, Dave took the band’s ripping satanism to new heights of technical legitimacy with his madcap Latin-influenced […]
News Suicide Silence and Carnifex Announce U.S. Co-Headlining Tour with Lorna Shore and Upon A Burning Body January 10, 2022 2:09pm Last year was a big one for deathcore legends Suicide Silence and Carnifex; the former went on a successful tour with Jinjer while the latter released what they were worried might be their last album. […]
Features Opinion: Metal Needs to Get Over Its ‘Name 3 Songs’ Gatekeeper Nonsense January 10, 2022 12:58pm Since it first climbed out of rock and roll’s primordial ooze, metal has been wary of what it considers the ultimate transgressor: the poser, someone who dresses metal and/or talks about the genre as if […]
News Judas Priest Will Tour as a 4-Piece for the First Time 48 Years January 10, 2022 10:22am Few bands have the storied history that world-conquering heavy metal gods Judas Priest do. Over the last fifty years, the British guitar-wranglers have wowed the world with their bombastic sound. But now, the band intend […]
News Video: Drummer Plays All 175 Rush Songs In Homage to Neil Peart January 10, 2022 9:06am Friday was the second anniversary of the death of Neil Peart, the groundbreaking drummer for Canadian band Rush who inspired a generation of percussionists to hit harder, faster, and with more unhinged precision than those […]
News Corey Taylor Promises a New Slipknot Album, His Indie Horror Movie, and “Secret ‘Homecoming’ Plans” for 2022 January 10, 2022 8:30am Back in December, Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor told the world that March or April of 2022 was when fans could expected a new album from the band. Now, the singer has announced on social media […]
News Metallica and Tool Are Using COVID-Sniffing Dogs for Their Shows January 9, 2022 9:25am The most frustrating part of the COVID pandemic is how quickly we’re learning about new effects, capabilities, and traits of this awful virus. One minute, we think we’re finally going to beat this thing; the […]
News Video: blink-182’s Travis Barker Rocks a Napalm Death Shirt While Drumming to Adele’s “Easy On Me” January 7, 2022 2:20pm Though blink-182 would never be called a metal band, they are inherently tied to metal — or maybe metal’s tied to them? — because of how much they’ve promoted living, breathing, and dying for rock […]
