News Obituary To Play ‘The End Complete’ In Its Entirety As Part of New Livestream Series March 4, 2021 2:05pm Back in October, death metal humidity-mongers Obituary played two of their most legendary albums in full via livestream, 1989’s Slowly We Rot and 1990’s Cause of Death. Now, the band have scheduled another series of livestreams, and […]
News Ghost Release Touching Fan Tribute Video for “Life Eternal” March 4, 2021 11:19am Love ’em or hate ’em, you have to admit that Ghost‘s rise over the past decade has been straight-up meteoric. The Swedish band have gone from underground occult rock act to arena headliners in a […]
Interviews The Crown’s Marko Tervonen: “Every Classic Album Needs a Satan Title” March 4, 2021 9:39am At the turn of the millennium, when metal was heavily embroiled in the polish of nu-metal and the grit of metalcore, those who knew about the real shit knew about The Crown. With records like Deathrace […]
News Metallica Celebrate 35 Years of ‘Master of Puppets’ by Performing “Battery” on Colbert March 4, 2021 8:13am Yesterday saw Metallica‘s third studio album Master of Puppets turn 35 years old. Not only did this milestone remind many headbangers how old they actually are, it also spoke to the timelessness of one of heavy […]
News Rob Zombie Recalls His Bizarre First Meeting With Ozzy Osbourne March 3, 2021 1:49pm There are few heavy metal stars who would get invited over by the great Ozzy Osbourne, but Rob Zombie is definitely one of them. The king of monster rock has spent his life molding his […]
News Peaceville Records Founder Paul Halmshaw Is Terminally Ill, Starts Online Fundraiser March 3, 2021 11:10am Though never a mainstream favorite, Peaceville Records has always been one of metal’s most important and interesting labels. The UK independent released many of underground and extreme metal’s greatest records, among them Autopsy’s Mental Funeral, […]
Lists Every Song on Metallica’s ‘Master of Puppets,’ Ranked March 3, 2021 8:47am 35 years ago today, Metallica left a crater in the metal world that no other band has ever been able to replicate or fill. Coming off of the mounting success of 1984’s monumental Ride the Lightning, […]
News Texas and Mississippi to Allow Full-Capacity Concerts with No Mask Requirement March 3, 2021 8:13am Since the coronavirus pandemic and the quarantine that came with it first swept over the world, music fans have had one thing on their minds: when will shows start up again? Without live music, everything […]
BOOOOOO This Blows: Dave Lombardo’s Classic Slayer Drum Kits Were Stolen March 2, 2021 10:55am Among metal drummers, Dave Lombardo will always stand atop an especially high pedestal. While Slayer‘s guitars and vocals are immediately identifiable, it was Dave’s explosive, Latin-inspired playing that wowed a lot of the technical musicians […]
New Music Watch Lzzy Hale and Members of Code Orange, Baroness, and More Cover Pantera’s “Mouth for War” March 2, 2021 9:44am It’s been a hot second since we checked in with those rambunctious nose-pickers over at Two Minutes to Late Night, whose insane, star-studded cover song series made our quarantine worthwhile. And while we know what you’re […]
