Metal

At last week’s BRIT Awards, sing-songwriter Ed Sheeran performed an embarrassing cover of his own track “Bad Habits” with former deathcore act Bring Me The Horizon providing shimmery, Linkin Park-esque “metal” accompaniment. Then, this week, we learned that the duo planned to record a studio version of their collaboration. Welp, now you can hear the version below, and guess

Electronically-oriented hard rock act Health have been doing some rad-ass collaborations lately for their upcoming DISCO4 :: PART II album. First, the band worked on a track with Nine Inch Nails; then they did a song with Chino Moreno; finally, they collaborated with Poppy. But now, the LA-based band have gone full metal on their

We’re not going to lie: we imagine opening for Bon Jovi to be one of the more harrowing experiences in the world. This isn’t because Bon Jovi are inherently terrible, or even that their fans are that bad. It’s more that you’d be playing to an audience of people who have been listening to, tipsily

Earlier this month, nu-metal pioneers Korn released their 14th studio album, Requiem. Now, the record’s chart positioning has been released, and hey, the band reached a chart placement that most other acts would be proud of…but which didn’t quite meet their own standards. Korn’s Requiem debuted at #14 on this week’s Billboard charts, nestled between

Last month, we got our first look at Foo Fighters‘ new horror movie Studio 666, and were surprised to find that it looked pretty cool. Now, the band have dropped a single from that movie, a death-thrash track titled “March of the Insane” by a fictional act named Dream Widow, and…holy shit, it’s pretty rad!

Last week, we reported on the BRIT Awards’ opening sequence, which included singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran performing an embarrassing cover of his own track “Bad Habits” with former deathcore act Bring Me The Horizon providing shimmery, Linkin Park-esque “metal” accompaniment (for the record, the song itself was bad by pretty typical Pop Goes Metal standards; the

Would you have a threesome with Kelly Osbourne and Sid Wilson? Remember that the former is the daughter of metal royalty Ozzy Osbourne, who might walk in on you naked (in that HE’LL be naked). The other is the gasmask-wearing DJ from Slipknot famous for breaking both of his feet because he goddamn felt like

Yesterday marked the 52nd anniversary of Black Sabbath‘s self-titled debut, arguably the first heavy metal album ever released. And only two years ago, during the celebration of its 50-year anniversary, was the cover model for the album identified by Rolling Stone as one Louisa Livingstone. That said, while it’s cool that Louisa is part of

Back in July, the rock and metal community was crushed to learn that Joey Jordison, founding drummer of Slipknot and performer in Murderdolls and Sinsaenum, had died at the age of 46. Now, a previously-unpublished interview with Joey from 2018 has been released, and it’s both informative and very heartbreaking given what’s followed. The video

If there’s one metalhead duo more iconic than Axl Rosenberg and Vince Neilstein, it’s probably Wayne and Garth from Wayne’s World (also Beavis and Butt-Head). But while the couch-bound pals from SNL and Penelope Spheeris’ 1992 movie seemed all good onscreen, things behind the scenes weren’t quite as excellent, with comedians Mike Myers and Dana

Hey, did you know that guitarist K. K. Downing is very mad at Judas Priest? True story! In fact, K. K. really hasn’t missed an opportunity to tell the world how pissed off he is at his former band. Now, in a new interview, Downing has given a long, detailed statement about why he’s upset

Live music is definitely on rocky ground post-COVID. It often feels like two out of three tours are getting postponed before they even launch, with the third walking on eggshells and ready to be scuttled at a moment’s notice. But Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen thinks there’s no reason why this summer’s twice-rescheduled Stadium Tour

If you want a raging metal song written about a specific and awesome piece of military history, you go to Sabaton. The Swedish war buffs and tour-mongers write songs that are equal parts accurate history lesson and gripping cinematic masterpiece. Now, the band have dropped a new single, and lo and behold, it’s got a

Welp, it looks like Disturbed frontman David Draiman has gone from casual critic in the Joe Rogan/Spotify debate to furious culture warrior. Despite giving ex-Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach the ‘palms-up just-observing’ response to misunderstanding the First Amendment, Draiman has now gone full bore after Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show, on Twitter. Why?

As the old saying goes, it’s not a party until someone breaks out a dildo. Any bro worth his sauce knows that a rager isn’t complete until you got some liquored-up compadre running through a crowded room, whipping a big black rubber wang over his head like he was Pervert Genghis Khan. Problem is, your

So on the one hand, last night’s BRIT Awards included Ed Sheeran and Bring Me The Horizon’s pretty terrible jam of “Bad Habits.” BUT! It also had rapper Dave firing off a gigantic flamethrower from his guitar while playing a solo on it. And THAT is fucking metal. Full disclosure, we do not know anything

It was just last month that Sevendust announced their tour to honor the 20th anniversary of their album Animosity. But now, the band have already announced a second leg of the tour, which is a pretty ballsy move when you think about it. Hopefully that means that presales for the first leg went well. Openers

We’re not sure if you know this, but Ted Nugent is old and cranky. The guitarist and vocalist is prone to semi-coherent rants about anything from Joan of Arc (who Ted sort of remembered), Neil Young being Canadian, and of course, the good ol’ Communist Chinese. But it seems that Ted has lost his focus,

Right now, there’s a bitter feud going on between Pearl Jam and Mötley Crüe, and by ‘bitter feud’ we mean ‘aged rockers throwing haughty softball-pitch jabs at each other.’ But now, Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder might have gone too far — he insulted Tommy Lee’s drum kit. What the FUCK, dude. So if you

Last winter saw Atlanta stoner-metal kings Mastodon and Swedish prog-metal savants Opeth embark on a North American co-headlining tour. And apparently, the trek was just so much damn fun that the two bands have decided to do it all again. Opeth and Mastodon’s next North American lovefest kicks off this April, though openers, if any,