New Music Disturbed Release Sting Cover, Announce 2018 Austin City Limits Performance Stream for Next Week September 11, 2020 9:33am Back when you first bumped Disturbed‘s The Sickness, you probably never thought, Man, I bet these guys would do a mean Sting cover. Not in The Police, either — a solo Sting song. But time makes fools […]
New Music Hatebreed Unleash New Single “Weight of the False Self” September 11, 2020 8:48am The last we heard from Hatebreed was in February, when the hardcore stalwarts released a new track titled “When The Blade Drops.” Now, the band are back with another new single, this one the title […]
Last Words Wayfarer’s Shane McCarthy Joins This Week’s Episode of Our Heavy-Metal Talk Show, Last Words September 10, 2020 2:20pm Guitars: cool? A recent New York Times has suggested that the rise of guitar sales since the coronavirus lockdown heralded the ‘return of the guitar.’ But was the guitar and the music that relies on […]
News Pantera Announce 20th Anniversary Reissue of ‘Reinventing The Steel’ September 10, 2020 12:21pm Like many massive follow-up album, Pantera‘s 2000 album Reinventing the Steel was deeply misunderstood when it came out. The record’s attempts to reconcile the Texan quartet’s classic metal past and their newer, more extreme identity sat poorly with […]
News GWAR Announce Drive-In Show For October September 10, 2020 11:13am In the age of COVID-19, the concert experience has been irrevocably changed. For some bands, this is just a bummer; for GWAR, it’s a complete clusterfuck. That’s because though GWAR’s albums are great, it’s their […]
New Music Listen to Marilyn Manson’s Dreamy New Single “Don’t Chase the Dead” September 10, 2020 8:44am This week will see Marilyn Manson release his first new album in three years. This time around, the God of Fuck is trying out some new flavors and sounds, with country progeny and producers extraordinaire […]
News Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea Just Fell In Love With Cannibal Corpse September 9, 2020 3:04pm You’d think that after spending the last, what, thirty-five years touring the world in a loud, edgy rock band, you’d have seen and heard everything. But today, the world has been shown that even the […]
News The New ‘Dune’ Trailer Is The Most Metal Thing You’ll See All Day September 9, 2020 1:56pm Science fiction and metal will always be intertwined due to their shared love of awesome imagery, real-world darkness, and epic visions of the future — and few sci-fi stories will ever embody these ideas as […]
News Rob Halford Is Planning A Blues Album September 9, 2020 11:26am If there’s any genre of music as inherently damned as heavy metal, it’s the blues. Dripping with the suffering and sadness of the black south from which it originated, the blues has always had roots […]
Interviews Lacuna Coil’s Cristina Scabbia: How The Band’s COVID-19 Experience Led to Their Livestream Event September 9, 2020 10:15am More than anything, Cristina Scabbia is incredibly aware. While many musicians seem content to live in the contained world of their practice spaces and tour buses — and given how long and storied her band’s […]
