News Unleash the Archers’ Brittney Slayes Reveals Her Favorite Female Villain August 27, 2020 11:03am The epic, sprawling world of Unleash the Archers’ new album Abyss is part of what makes the ripping power metal thereon so exciting. The band aren’t just writing an album around a concept, they’re actually seeing the […]
Premieres Intoxicated (feat. Members of Andrew W.K.’s Band) Will Thrash You to Pieces With Their New EP August 27, 2020 11:00am All genres of metal deserve their due, but let’s be honest, you really just want some thrash to knock you on your ass, and Intoxicated are here to deliver it to you. The Florida three-piece […]
Lists 10 Metal TikToks That Will Have You Cackling With Glee August 27, 2020 10:30am Ah, TikTok — Vine with a narrower screen. The short-video hosting site has become the most popular social network of late, to the point where President Trump wants it shut down because he believes it’s […]
Wait...What? Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe Wants to Form a Supergroup With Kenny G and Weird Al August 27, 2020 8:51am Plenty of musicians dream of putting together an epic supergroup full of their favorite musicians. But very few metal musicians dream of putting together a genre-spanning project that involves the smoothest of jazz and the […]
New Music Hear Members of Slayer, Mastodon, Butcher Babies and More Sing “99 Bottles of Beer” for Charity August 26, 2020 2:19pm Earlier this month, we reported that members of pretty much every metal band ever would take part in a massive singalong of “99 Bottles of Beer On The Wall” to raise money for a charity […]
News Rob Halford’s Isolated Vocal Tracks Will Give You New Respect For The Metal God August 26, 2020 12:52pm No one in the rock or metal world has anything but respect for Rob Halford. The Judas Priest frontman is not only an amazing vocalist with a long, storied career behind him, but he’s also […]
News Tribulation Announce New Album for January 2021 August 26, 2020 12:31pm The last we heard from Sweden’s Tribulation was last year’s live album Alive and Dead at Södra Teatern. The goth’n’roll five-piece have been on a steady rise since dropping 2015’s The Children of the Night. But […]
Features How Power Trip’s Riley Gale Made A New Generation of Metalheads Feel Less Alone August 26, 2020 12:13pm Back in 2018, I was writing a bi-monthly column for VICE’s music site Noisey, and my column for that week was focused on thrash metal’s new wave of legitimacy following its pizza-fueled revival in the […]
News Slayer’s Kerry King Has “More Than Two Records’ Worth of Music” Written For New Project August 26, 2020 9:51am Last year saw metal history in the making as thrash titans Slayer called it quits after almost four decades of bathing the world in bloody satanic riffs. But just because Slayer won’t be playing anymore […]
News Members of Slipknot, Machine Head and More Pay Tribute to Late Power Trip Vocalist Riley Gale August 26, 2020 9:11am Last night, it was revealed that Riley Gale, frontman for Texas thrash metal act Power Trip, had died. Though a relatively underground band, Power Trip’s meteoric rise within the metal scene and their weight as […]
