BOOOOOO Iron Maiden Snubbed By Rock & Roll Hall of Fame May 12, 2021 8:49am Back in February, we revealed this year’s nominees for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, among them metal legends Iron Maiden and rap-rock upstarts Rage Against The Machine. Now, the Cleveland-based organization […]
Hell Yes Berklee College of Music Adds Four Septicflesh Tracks to Their Library May 12, 2021 8:27am Boston’s Berklee College of Music is the largest independent college of contemporary music, whose library includes some of the most interesting and complex modern compositions out there. Now, it’s been revealed that Berklee has added […]
News Gojira Have The Best-Selling Album In The U.S. May 11, 2021 2:19pm Last month saw French experimental face-melters Gojira release Fortitude, their most ambitious and accessible album thus far. Now, it appears this level of sonic evolution has paid off for the band, who have reached a new plateau […]
Premieres Exclusive Album Stream: Cadaveric Incubator Stomp Your Guts Into Paste On Savage New Record May 11, 2021 11:00am There’s no middle ground for Cadaveric Incubator. The Finnish three-piece don’t slow down or turn off or take a second to think about things, they just axe-murder eardrums with their unstoppable mixture of grind, thrash, […]
Hell Yes Marvel’s Thor Rocks an Amon Amarth Shirt In New Comic May 11, 2021 10:57am When Marvel’s Thor came out in 2011, every metalhead on earth thought the same thing: where the hell is the Viking metal? Kenneth Brannagh’s shiny, upbeat take on Marvel’s god of thunder felt entirely devoid of […]
Wait...What? Heavy Metal Makes You Fat, According to British Tabloid May 11, 2021 8:25am If you told the average metal fan that their fanbase is one of the fatter ones out there, they might not be too surprised. Metal is a culture where music comes first, and where people’s character […]
New Music Soldiers of Destruction Toss A Sonic Molotov Cocktail on “Undefeated” May 10, 2021 2:35pm Fans of rock literature and journalism have undoubtedly heard of Morat, the mohawked punk famous for his musical discoveries and his several excellent books, including biker fantasy epic The Road to FeroCity and the novella-length autobiography Punk Snot […]
Last Words Dave Lombardo (ex-Slayer, Mr. Bungle) and Composer Fil Eisler Talk Scoring Netflix’s ‘Thunder Force’ on This Week’s Last Words May 10, 2021 2:32pm Hollywood: if you can make it there, you probably have a high tolerance for uppers and a talent for explaining to artists why they don’t deserve a living wage. For metalheads, working in show business […]
Hell Yes Significant Other: Check Out the Insane First Trailer for ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’ May 10, 2021 10:30am Among the pantheon of comic book characters, few have resonated with metalheads quite like Venom, the Spider-Man antagonist comprised of disgraced journalist Eddie Brock and his plasmatic alien symbiote. Not only is Venom a slavering […]
News Evanescence and Halestorm Announce 2021 U.S. Tour May 10, 2021 10:11am As the COVID vaccine becomes more and more widespread, many of rock and metal’s hard-touring veterans are plotting their triumphant return to the stage. Now, two of those bands, goth metallers Evanescence and hard rockers […]