Metal

When the internet broke earlier this week as Rush announced they were reuniting to play a 50th anniversary tour, I’m sure many of you saw the limited number of dates and thought “well, that’s not gonna happen for me…” Surely tickets would sell out instantly and anyone looking to experience the prog band in all

To our friends out on the West Coast: if you miss out on any of the following shows, you’re messing up. I say that as nicely as I can, but yeah — any time The Dillinger Escape Plan is set to play in your area, you gotta take ’em up on it. Earlier today, the

Fresh off the release of their newest album Dark Superstition, Gatecreeper dropped a raucous new music video for the track “Mistaken For Dead.” And just like the song itself, the video hits go and doesn’t let up until it’s done. Featuring live footage galore and an undeniable energy that only comes from a death metal

We’ve called them “Heavy as Fuck and Weird as Hell” in the past and at one point my predecessor said their inability to catch Kayo Dot live was a personal failure. That was back in 2016 and I can’t imagine how much of a failure that must feel like after the band stopped booking North

It’s looking like Testament are really turning up the dial on 2025 just before it comes to an end. Not only do they have a killer new album in Para Bellum coming out this Friday, but they’re also remixing and remastering one of their most iconic records — Souls of Black. News of this new

Welp. They’ve been talking about it all coming to an end eventually, but Oceano has finally released details about their final show ever. Set to take place on December 6 at The WC Social Club in West Chicago, Illinois, the band will have something special planned for long-time fans that come out to say goodbye.

I don’t know about you guys, but I get a little squeamish whenever I see someone performing on stage with barefeet. Just thinking of all the hocked loogies and spilled drinks and other potential hazards on any given stage gives me the willies. But even that level of discomfort watching Matt Baty perform shoeless couldn’t

Zakk Wylde’s been a busy, busy boy as of late. We all know the dude’s been all over the world touring with Pantera over the last couple of years, but he’s still got his other projects, too. His most recent solo effort was Book Of Shadows II from a couple years ago, but he also

Right now, two legendary acts are touring the U.S., continuing their legacies and defending the faith, as it were. The “Metal God” himself Rob Halford and his bandmates in Judas Priest have been sharing a stage with the king of shock rock himself, Alice Cooper, with Corrosion of Conformity providing some killer support. You bet

Well, that was close. Things could’ve ended differently for Kiss vocalist Gene Simmons earlier this week on Tuesday, October 7, when he was involved in a car crash in Malibu, California. He’s okay, but the situation definitely sounds like it could’ve turned out worse once you hear some of the details. The accident happened off

Wah wah wahhhhh folks. If you happen to live in Europe or the UK, then it doesn’t look like you’ll be able to see Dream Theater on their “An Evening with Dream Theater” tour, the one supporting their latest album Parasomnia. They were supposed to head over there next year, but now it seems like

As a society, we’re becoming more cooked with each passing day. We’re basically burnt to a fuckin crisp at this point and it’s not like we needed another indicator of that, but, here we are. The red hats have been up in arms since Bad Bunny was announced as next year’s Super Bowl halftime show

We can’t act like we didn’t see this coming. If you’ve been up on My Dying Bride news, then you’re likely already aware that their founding vocalist Aaron Stainthorpe has basically been ghosting the band since last year. The English doom legends have been forced to work around him since, but now, they won’t have

This is music to my little deathcore ears. Winds of Plague, who recently reunited with their original members, haven’t released anything since 2017’s Blood of My Enemy. Now that they’ve got three shows—including playing this year’s Louder Than Life in Louisville, Kentucky and Aftershock in Sacramento, California—under their belt, they may be itching to a

Now here’s something we can get behind. Without getting into the nitty gritty (not that I need to, since you can just look around you), a new movement within the music community is prompting artists and labels to remove their catalogs from Spotify and other streaming services as part of No Music for Genocide. Among

I don’t know about my fellow elder millennials, but there are few deaths that me hit as hard in the music scene as that of Chris Cornell. When he died back in 2017 at the far-too-young age of 52, it was a shock. He’d been playing with Soundgarden once again, but he ultimately took his

Leave it up to Ice Nine Kills to make something more boisterous than it already is. I mean that in a good way. Just look at this new bit of visual delight they’ve unleashed unto the world. “The Laugh Track” finds itself just as vibrant and in your face as the source material it’s pulling

Tim Lambesis is kind of like a roach at this point—he just won’t really go away. After attempting to revive As I Lay Dying a few times to no avail, the band has returned YET AGAIN with another lineup and a new single, called “Echoes.” It’s been suggested that this current attempt at relevance is

Here’s something for you Slayer heads, as well as those who love swimming in the murk of technical details. To mark the 35th anniversary of their album Seasons in the Abyss, the band has launched a special track-by-track video feature on Slaytanic Verses, the band’s free online museum, where Kerry King and Tom Araya will

It looks like next year is shaping up to very bountiful when it comes to festivals, particularly the Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival. They’ve just announced another new round of bands added to the lineup, and they’re beefy. The bill now includes Amon Amarth, Body Count, In Flames, Kreator, and Sepultura. The last one