Metal

With news that Lamb of God guitarist Willie Adler won’t be with the band on their upcoming European run and, with the news that fill-in guitarist Phil Demmel won’t be making all of his Vio-lence commitments this year, there was speculation that Adler’s status with the band was uncertain. He’s laid those fears to rest

The Original Misfits—the horror punk band’s classic lineup of Glenn Danzig, Jerry Only and Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein that reunited to play shows for millions of dollars even though they hate each other—have continued playing shows, presumably because they make a lot of money and no one is clamoring for new Danzig music right now.

Fledgling metal outfit Thoughtcrimes, the Long Island-based band led by former The Dillinger Escape Plan drummer Billy Rhymer, have released “New Infinities,” a fresh single off of their upcoming Altered Pasts album. The song is quite a bit sludgier, juxtaposing the heavy guitars with shimmering strings—courtesy of Seven)Suns violinist Earl Maneein. The Dillinger Escape Plan

There was uncertainty about the future of Maryland Deathfest—the world’s largest known gathering of people who know what goregrind is—when the 2022 edition of the festival concluded. In April, shortly before the event took place, organizers Ryan Taylor and Evan Harting announced that they would not produce any festivals in 2023 and that MDF may

It sure seems like something is brewing in the Botch camp. The American mathcore legends, dubbed the 20th most important band of the ’90s by Metalsucks, broke up in 2006 but a recent post by former bassist Brian Cook hints at a reunion. Two days ago (July 31), Cook posted a photo to Instagram of

In doing metal genre research, I am often most fascinated by contrast. Sri Lanka—bright, sunny, perhaps optimistic. Black metal—foreboding, nocturnal, depressive. The Sri Lankan metal scene is diverse with a variety of bands but black metal is the most prominent subgenre in the region. While there were more Sri Lankan black metal bands considered for

Two video game series are responsible for introducing swathes of impressionable young people to punk and metal: rhythm game series Guitar Hero and the Tony Hawk skateboarding game franchise. The soundtracks were a who’s who of bands at the time; everyone from Rise Against, Bad Religion and Sum 41 to In Flames, System of a

Guitarist Robert Fripp of the legendary King Crimson and his wife, actress and singer Toyah Willcox, are back with the latest update in their Sunday Lunch series of cover videos. This week’s is a cover of Lenny Kravitz‘s “Are You Gonna Go My Way?” and features Willcox in a maid outfit “cooking” a tortilla like

Were you so caught up in the ongoing excitement of the Pantera reunion and debating whether or not Tommy Lee is using a drum track that you missed this week’s news? Not to worry, we’ll catch you up. That’s what we’ve got for today. We’ll have a few weekend updates and see you for the

In a recent interview with Metal Hammer, Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine spoke about a wide variety of topics including the band’s recent co-headlining tour with Lamb of God, new Megadeth album The Sick, the Dying… and the Dead! and his relationships with former Megadeth members. Speaking on Megadeth’s tour with Lamb of God (plus openers

In a recent interview with VWMusic, Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard was asked his thoughts on the frequent claim that grunge killed off heavy metal and hard rock in the mainstream. Gossard’s answer, transcribed by Blabbermouth, acknowledges the commercial success grunge had and offers his reasoning on why. “I think there’s always renewal in the

There was a surprise stand-out performance at Lollapalooza last night. New Jersey deathcore unit Lorna Shore headlined the BMI Stage at the festival last night to an electric crowd, riding high on the momentum from their latest single, “Cursed to Die,” which dropped on Thursday. Video taken by attendees and posted to Twitter shows a

It’s like we told you two weeks ago: death metal is the hottest thing in the underground—really, it has been for what feels like the better part of the last decade—and we want to bring you the best bands in the scene. Each week, our inboxes overflow with new death metal from all corners of

We’re used to singer Vince Neil fucking up his parts while performing with hair metal legends Mötley Crüe, but drummer Tommy Lee is usually on top of his shit. That said, he’s the one who’s now under scrutiny after a video of him using a backing track at the band’s July 19 show has surfaced.

In May, we learned that shock rocker Rob Zombie would be bringing kids’ horror host Zombo back in his reboot of horror-comedy series The Munsters. Now, Zombie has dropped two new tracks from the OST of the movie: Zombo’s theme, and the soundtrack to his house of horrors, which sounds way more frightening than one

We were unsurprised to learn that Aaron Lewis went on another unhinged rant during one of his recent shows. The Staind frontman and Putin sympathizer doesn’t have much in the ways of good music — he’s known for drunkenly playing the same song twice — so his blithering conservative commentary is pretty much the star

In October of 2020, Five Finger Death Punch dropped an anti-mask music video for their song “Living The Dream.” The message wasn’t received well, in part because we were at the height of the COVID pandemic (this was pre-vaxx) and the weird overtones of Red Menace propaganda felt more menacing than the communism that the

There has long been a conspiracy theory that there are aliens dwelling among us. Whether it’s David Icke’s bigotry-rooted belief that reptilian extraterrestrials have infiltrated the deepest corners of our political landscape, or the somewhat hilarious idea that the American government has aliens in tubes after they crash-landed in Roswell, New Mexico, the idea that

In December of 1984, Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil was drunk-driving a car containing Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley when he lost control and collided with an oncoming vehicle. Neil, who had a blood alcohol level of 0.17% (for the record, the legal limit in the U.S. is 0.08%), survived the crash, but Dingley

A few months ago, Deep Purple guitarist Steve Morse announced that he’d be taking a hiatus from the band, replaced on the road by Simon McBride. But now, Morse has officially quit so that he can be with his wife during her ongoing battle with cancer. This weekend, Deep Purple released the following statement regarding