The Brass Against on-stage pee incident that has captured the metal internet’s attention in recent days has taken another twist: someone filed a police report in relation to the incident. New details about the events that led to the golden shower heard ’round the world have also come to light. In case you missed it,
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Jinjer have released a new music video for “Disclosure!,” a track from their most recent album, Wallflowers. Bassist Eugene Abdukhanov explains: “The track ‘Disclosure!’ and the video itself is a very important video for Jinjer. Not only is it one of our favorite tracks on the new album as well as live, our ex-guitarist Dmitriy
New York brass collective Brass Against have apologized for the incident that saw frontwoman Sophia Urista pee on a fan’s face on stage during the band’s Welcome to Rockville performance on Thursday, November 11. Posting on Twitter, the band said: “We had a great time last night at Welcome to Rockville. Sophia got carried away.
Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe is the latest notable metal musician to publicly address last week’s tragedy at the Astroworld festival. On Friday, November 5, there was a crowd surge during Scott’s headlining set at the Astroworld music festival in Houston, Texas. Eight people, ages 14 – 27, were crushed to death, and hundreds more were
Fear Factory will finally reveal the identity of their new singer when they “showcase” that vocalist with a new song, according to guitarist Dino Cazares. The group’s longtime frontman, Burton Seabell, quit the band last year after Cazares launched a Crowdfunding campaign to finish their tenth studio album, Aggression Continuum, which was first recorded in 2017. Burton called the
Bleed from Within have released a new single, “I Am Damnation.” You can check it out via the below music video, which was directed by Pavel Trebukhin. Catch Bleed From Within at their forthcoming UK headline tour, where they will be debuting “I Am Damnation” live: Nov 23 – The Fleece, Bristol – UK [tickets]Nov 24 –
Following their Awake EP released this past spring and their recent cover of Billie Eilish’s “Everything I Wanted,” doom-pop progenitors Som (comprised of current and former members of Constants, Junius and Caspian) have unveiled plans for a new full-length album and released its first single, “Animals.” Vocalist and guitarist Will Benoit explains of the song, a shimmering
Press release: In the lead up to Wild Thing’s 10th anniversary in 2022, Wild Thing Presents / Wild Thing Records have today announced rebranding as Wild Thing Music Group. [embedded content] The changes announced today see Wild Thing’s structure shift to a four-pillar model under the one banner; encompassing Management, Label – Wild Thing Records, Merchandise – Wild Thing Music Store,
Bassist Justin Chancellor (Tool) and drummer Aric Improta (Fever 333, Night Verses) have teamed up for a new song, “EXU.” Spin says the collaboration came about after Improta, inspired by the phantasmagoric Panos Cosmatos’ films Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) and Mandy (2018), built an infinity room during the lockdown. He then enlisted Chancellor use that infinity room to
OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: Architects will be performing an exclusive global streaming event from the legendary Abbey Road Studios on December 11th. The performance will be backed by Parallax Orchestra, made up of some of England’s best and most versatile classical musicians, arranged and written by Simon Dobson, Parallax Orchestra’s conductor and a three-times British Composer award (BASCA) winner for his compositions.
Julia Eisen, older sister of Paul Stanley, has publicly slammed the Kiss singer/guitarist as “an opportunistic, self-serving bastard” and a “scumbag” who “I hope… goes to Hell” — because, she claims, he didn’t tell her about the recent death of their father. On November 7, Stanley revealed that his dad, William Eisen, recently passed away
The European and American legions have had their day in the press, so it’s now time to shine a scorching mid-day light on some of the black metal acts who call rainforests home instead of snow-capped ones. The bands from these countries can not only stand toe to toe with their Western counterparts when it
Today, Toontrack released the Heavy Metal EBX, the seventh title in the company’s quickly growing family of EBX expansions for EZbass. It also marks the second release in Toontrack’s ongoing Metal Month campaign, which now is at its eleventh consecutive year. Find everything related to Metal Month here:https://www.toontrack.com/metal-month/ About the Heavy Metal EBXAny heavy metal arsenal needs a
As our civilization continues its inexorable devolution back into the Dark Ages, there are now lunatics on the Internet who believe that last week’s Astroworld tragedy was part of a deliberate Satanic sacrifice performed by Travis Scott and/or Live Nation. Furthermore, they think that Scott went to fairly substantial lengths to broadcast this information. For
Khemmis co-guitarist and co-vocalist Phil Pendergast is our guest this week! We discuss the band’s new album, Deceiver, the long and difficult process of writing lyrics for it, fighting through a lack of motivation and depression during the pandemic, how Deceiver connects to the band’s breakthrough album, Hunted, the exit of bassist Dan Beiers during
After a long wait, melodic death metal pioneers Dark Tranquillity have just announced an extensive North American tour for early 2022! The band’s first visit to our shores in over three years will bring with it the crushing grooves of Kataklysm and the progressive death metal of Nailed to Obscurity. A little something for everyone
Taking inspiration from MTV’s Unplugged series from the ’90s, Haunt have announced a new acoustic album, Unplugged Vol. 1, featuring reimagined versions of eight of the band’s previously released tracks. Due to be released via Iron Grip and Church Recordings next Friday, November 12, the band has now offered the first single, “Beautiful Distraction,” as a preview of the record.
[embedded content] A riff may not be a song – but you CAN make a whole song starting from a single riff. I’m gonna show you how – but I need a riff. ONE riff. Not just any riff – I need the HEAVIEST RIFF IN THE UNIVERSE. And one of you is going to
Korn are now offering what The PRP describes as “a brief snippet of what appears to be a new song” via, of all things, a new Instagram filter. The the QR code for the filter is available here. You can go here to view posts by fans using the filter. Additionally, a fan has spotted
OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: Metal singers Dez Fafara and D. Randall Blythe abide by the maxim to “put your money where your mouth is” with Chakra Coin, a new cryptocurrency designed to foster community and invest in charitable causes. Longtime friends, both frontmen earned gold records with their respective bands and share unwavering commitments to artistic