News The Heavy Metal Icon Who Used to Cut up Dead Bodies as a Coroner August 26, 2023 12:28pm Korn frontman Jonathan Davis might take the cake as having the most insane job prior to living the rock star life. The guy literally worked with dead bodies as a coroner’s assistant. Here’s the story. […]
News The ‘Awful’ Massive Rock Band That Slipknot’s Corey Taylor Hates August 26, 2023 12:25pm Corey Taylor has never been one to keep quiet about bands or artists he doesn’t like. But there’s one modern rock band in particular that has particularly drawn his ire in recent years. […]
News The Alt-Metal Legends Whose Name Is Subversive In All The Wrong Ways August 26, 2023 11:03am Naming a band is incredibly hard. When it comes to Rage Against The Machine, the man who coined the term wishes they went with something else […]
News Trivium’s Matt Heafy Discusses The Therapeutic Nature Of Metal August 26, 2023 11:02am An old mainstream misconception is that metalheads are inherently angry people. In a recent interview, Matt Heafy takes that fallacy to task. […]
News The Cult Comedy That Introduced Metal To MTV August 26, 2023 10:59am Believe it or not, heavy metal was not an instant hit with the MTV crowd of the 1980s. This is how a cult British sitcom changed all of that. […]
News How Metallica Turned A Mediocre Movie Into A Horrifying Classic August 26, 2023 10:58am Dalton Trumbo’s ‘Johnny Got His Gun’ was a literary sensation, but the movie didn’t hit like the book. That is, until Metallica came along… […]
News The Controversial Concert Venue Practice That Metal Bands Are Speaking Out Against August 26, 2023 10:47am Over the past 6 months, many prominent heavy metal artists have spoken out about the long-running tradition of venue merch cuts, and how much these rising hikes are hurting their bottom lines. […]
News Why Eddie Van Halen Never Actually Wanted to Record His Most Famous Song August 26, 2023 10:02am “Eruption” – arguably the most famous guitar solo laid to tape, almost never happened. Eddie Van Halen had no intentions of recording it or releasing it. But his record label and producer had a different vision. Here’s the story. […]
News 10 Brilliant Metal Albums From The 2000s That You’ve Likely Never Heard Of August 26, 2023 9:34am So much new music comes out these days that it’s easy for gems to get lost in the shuffle. Here are 10 albums from the 2000s that we believe are criminally underrated and very much worthy of your time. Enjoy! […]
News Boygenius’ Julien Baker Joins Turnstile Onstage for ‘Underwater Boi’ August 25, 2023 4:07pm The two entities went full Underwater Boigenius, with a hell of a performance at a recent festival appearance. […]
