Metal

Guitarist Olly Steele has quit Monuments after being in the band for a decade. Says Steele in a statement: “What’s cracking. I’m stepping down from Monuments. “It’s been ten incredible years of highs and lows and I’m extremely grateful for the entire experience. “It’s been a huge part of my life and many of the

…Ra Diaz, of Suicidal Tendencies fame. Diaz will sit in for Korn’s regular bassist, Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu, who recently revealed he’d be sitting out the band’s immediate touring plans to focus on “personal issues” and “bad habits.” Regarding Diaz, Korn say: “We appreciate your kind words of support in response to the recent tour update

Deafheaven have once again courted some controversy with their latest music, switching from the aggressive screams of their past work to almost entirely clean-sung vocals on the two tracks they’ve released from their new album so far, “Great Mass of Color” and “The Gnashing.” In a new chat with Pitchfork, vocalist George Clarke explained that

Following “Planet of Garbage,” the new song they released in June after a nearly seven year hiatus, progressive metallers Structures have unveiled a six-song EP, None of the Above. Brendan Murphy of Counterparts and Michael Barr of Volumes make guest appearances on the EP, which you can stream below and purchase here. [embedded content]

Iron Maiden have released a new video in which singer Bruce Dickinson, wearing a shirt for “Belshazzar’s Feast,” invites fans to that very event: “July the fifteenth. Rain or shine, heaven or hell, man or beast, you’re invited to Belshazzar’s Feast. But your mum can’t come!” The video all but confirms rumors that the legendary NWOBHM

Guns N’ Roses have released another entry in their Not in This Lifetime Selects video series, which highlights various performances from the band’s tour reuniting lead singer Axl Rose with fellow original members Slash (guitar) and Duff McKagan (bass). The footage was captured during the band’s tour of Latin America in late 2016, and includes a performance of

Anthrax have released the latest episode of their Anthrax 40 for 40 video series, which celebrates the band’s 40th anniversary by taking a look at each individual ‘Thrax album over the course of the coming weeks. That will all lead up to a special career-spanning livestream performance on July 16 (the band’s actual 40th anniversary). You can watch the new episode below.

After already once postponing their tour together from its original timeframe in 2020, Deftones and Gojira have again pushed back the run, which had been rescheduled for August and September of this year, this time to April and May 2022. Poppy will no longer be the opening act. Deftones, in a statement posted to social

As anticipated, Marilyn Manson (né Brian Warner) has turned himself into authorities to face two misdemeanor assault charges, TMZ reports. The charges stem not from the deluge of recent allegations that the shock rocker abused multiple women, but from an August 2019 show at the Bank of NH Pavilion in Gilford, NH, during which Manson allegedly spit on a

Dave Mustaine has raised his price on Cameo AGAIN. As of this writing, his fee on the platform — which lets fans purchase personalized video messages from celebrities — is up to $350 a pop. That’s a $50 increase from just a few days ago, and the fourth increase overall in the six days since

This spring, Pig Destroyer made the world a far better place — again! — by surprise releasing Pornographers of Sound: Live in NYC, a live album (duh) captured during two nights at Brooklyn’s beloved Saint Vitus Bar in October of 2019. Now the world’s finest grindcore band are making the world a even further, betterer

Stance, who in this blogger’s opinion make just about the most comfortable socks on the market right now, have just announced two new Guns N’ Roses-themed designs. One pair has been dubbed ‘Appetite’ because it features the cover art from Appetite for Destruction; the other pair are called ‘So Fine’ because… uh… they say ‘So

Imperial Triumphant have announced a fall headline tour. Support will come from Pyrrhon. This will be, if I’m not mistaken, the New York avant-garde metallers’ first tour since the release of their most recent album, Alphaville, which came out on July 31 of last year. They were supposed to be part of the MetalSucks-sponsored Devastation

During my recent guest sesh on The Metal Injection Livecast, it came to my attention that Mean Man: The Story of Christ Holmes is now available for viewing on Amazon Prime (at least here in the U.S.). Since watching the car wreck that is the former W.A.S.P. guitarist’s life is one of my great joys,

Dave Mustaine, believer in the free market, has raised the price of a personalized video on Cameo three times in a matter of days since joining the service, ultimately doubling his fee. Mustaine first announced he was on Cameo, the service that lets you pay celebrities to record personalized messages, last week. Starting at $150

In a 20th anniversary retrospective in which Metal Hammer looks back on Slipknot’s sophomore album, Iowa, both percussionist M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan and vocalist Corey Taylor say that the band members were not on great terms during the making of that record. Metal Hammer teased the controversy as part of a preview of what’s in

Every month we take a look at Spotify’s ‘monthly listeners’ counts for several hundred metal bands and compare them side by side to gauge their relative popularity at any given moment. For more on why we’re doing this column and the methodology behind it, read this. The numbers for July are in, and the pace of

Born of Osiris released their sixth full-length album, Angel or Alien, this past Friday (July 2) and with that arrived a music video for the track “Poster Child.” You can watch the video (and stream the full album) below as well as order the album here. Born of Osiris have a run of Texas tour dates

Yet again, Ted Nugent has fired back against those who call him racist. Nugent has frequently been accused of bigotry for no better reason than the fact that he is a bigot. Evidence of Nugent’s racism includes, but is not limited to: i) Giving an interview where he says Blacks aren’t hard workers and uses the n-word