Mire, the new project featuring former As I Lay Dying guitarist Nick Hipa, have released their second single, “Inside.” You can listen to the track, which includes drumming by Jesse Beahler (Thy Art is Murder), below. Says the band of the song: “This song incorporates several more elements than [their first single] ‘Refined,’ notably duel
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Enterprise Earth have unveiled “Reanimate // Disintegrate,” the second single from their forthcoming album, The Chosen. Guitarist Gabe Mangold explains: “We’re very excited to unveil the second single and video ‘Reanimate // Disintegrate.’ This track features another sonic mood and feeling from the album that I think fans new and old will enjoy. The accompanying
Sabaton wrote a song about war history? Ya don’t say! The band’s latest, “Christmas Truce,” tells the story of a most unlikely temporary alliance between bitter enemies forged on the warfield in the name of Christmas. Press copy explains: “December 24, 1914: Late on Christmas Eve, British Expeditionary Force heard German troops in the trenches
It’s Halloween this weekend, and you know what that means — lots and lots of annoying kids ringing your doorbell to ask for candy, and threatening to egg or TP your house if you don’t comply. I know Halloween is a sacred “holiday” to, like, Rob Zombie fans, but for the more discerning (read: grouchy)
Gojira have shared an official music video for “Sphinx,” a track from this year’s Fortitude. Directed and animated by Zev Deans, the music video sees Gojira delivering a pulverizing performance at the feet of the infamous Egyptian colossus. Watch it below. Gojira are currently out on a U.S. headline tour featuring special guests Knocked Loose and Alien
Underoath are keeping the hits coming with their latest single, “Cycle,” featuring heavy electronic artist Ghostmane. Underoath continue to leave their metalcore roots largely in the past on this one, in line with previous singles “Damn Excuses,” “Hallelujah” and “Pneumonia.” I’d call it a heavy rock song more than anything — it wouldn’t be out
I said HOT DAMNUM! Allegaeon — about as exciting a progressive melo-death band as there is right now — have announced that they’ll release a new album, Damnum, on February 25 via Metal Blade. The group’s sixth full-length reunites them with longtime producer Dave Otero (Cattle Decapitation, Cephalic Carnage, Khemmis, etc.). This already-tremendous news is made
W.A.S.P., the band your mom always mixed up with Ratt, are turning forty. To celebrate this momentous occasion, they’re gonna tour Europe with one original member and not play their most famous song. Don’t everyone rush for tickets at once. Paradoxically for a band with so few actual ties to their past, in a press
The Black Dahlia Murder frontman Trevor Strnad is both a student of metal and a prolific vocalist, regularly sharing public displays of affection for underground bands from throughout the metalsphere and lending his voice to up-and-comers (most recently, VHS). His newest foray outside of his day job finds him teaming up with Artificial Brain (and
On February 11, 2022, the newly-created Gibson Records will release 4, the fourth album from Guns N’ Roses’ Slash’s Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators with Slash (Guns N’ Roses). But why is the album called 4????????? There are five members of the band… Slash was born on July 23, 1965… Slash has five
System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian is “doing well” after coming down with Covid-19 according to a post from the singer on social media. System of a Down postponed a pair of shows in Los Angeles this past weekend as a result of Tankian contracting the coronavirus despite being fully vaccinated. Serj noted in
King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and his wife, the actress and singer Toyah Willcox, have unveiled the latest entry in their “Sunday Lunch” series of cover videos that have captured the Internet’s attention in recent months. The duo’s new video finds them covering The Stranglers’ 1977 classic “Peaches,” with Robert up on the kitchen counter
Kiss singer/bassist Gene Simmons is selling his family’s Las Vegas-area home, with an eye-popping listing price of $14.95 million. He owned the property for less than a year, paying $10.8 million in a 2020 transaction for the massive home in the suburb of Henderson. According to The Wall Street Journal, the house mostly sat empty
Despite having released two “new” songs originally intended for Chinese Democracy over the summer, Slash says Guns N’ Roses have not actually begun to work on new material as of yet. Speaking with Audacy Check In, the guitarist says: “As far as new Guns is concerned, we haven’t even gotten to that point of really in earnest
Guitar maestro John 5 (Rob Zombie, David Lee Roth, ex-Marilyn Manson, etc.) has announced that he will no longer be participating in Yngwie Malmsteen’s upcoming U.S. tour “out of an abundance of caution” regarding the ongoing pandemic. Says the guitarist in a statement: “Due to unforeseen circumstances and out of an abundance of caution I
Insane Clown Posse have released a new song called “Wretched.” There’s a section where someone sings a deliberately-warped iteration of “Plowed” by Sponge. That’s just about the last thing I expected to hear in an ICP song, but they both came up in Detroit so maybe they’re buds? ANYWAY, the rest of the song is
Gore fueled death metallers Pathology recently announced their 11th studio album, The Everlasting Plague, to be released on November 19. Today, the band offers fans the third single, “Dirge for the Infected.” Pathology comments: “We’re stoked to finally share another track from the new album! ‘Dirge for the Infected’ shows the full range of PATHOLOGY’s music, from brutally heavy to fast and complex along
Sad that you’re not gonna get to see Death Angel (or Testament or Exodus) live this year? Maybe this’ll help a bit: the distinguished thrash outfit will release a new live album, The Bastard Tracks, on Black Friday (November 26). As its name suggests, The Bastard Tracks will focus on rarely- and never-before-performed cuts. It
Electro-rock outfit Health are all about those collaborations lately, having teamed up on new tracks with both Nine Inch Nails and Deftones’ Chino Moreno this year alone, not to mention all the killer combos on last year’s full-length album. Now they’re back with another mix-and-match track, enlisting cross-genre star Poppy for a haunting new song
Atmospheric black metallers So Hideous have returned with a new album and single, their first since 2015. The band headlined the MetalSucks 10th anniversary bash we held at Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus bar in early 2017. That seems like friggin’ FOREVER ago, and indeed, the band’s undergone a complete rhythm section swap in the ensuing down