Metal

Vended, the band featuring Simon Crahan, son of Shawn “Clown” Crahan, and Griffin Taylor, son of Corey Taylor, have announced their first U.S. tour. The thirteen-date trek is scheduled to kick off in November. The Slipknot progeny recently released a new single, “Asylum,” No word on an upcoming album or EP from the budding metal

There’s coincidences and there’s coincidences. And then there’s David Lee Roth, as mercurial and eccentric a rock n’ roll frontman and personality as has ever lived and likely ever will. Roth announced his pending retirement over the weekend, telling the Las Vegas Review-Journal that his upcoming five-show residency at House of Blues at the Mandalay Bay

Less than a month after we learned that Trapt were now on the far-right social network Gab, the band’s frontman, Chris Taylor Brown, is now openly feuding with the company’s co-founder and CEO, Andrew Torba. The way it presents itself — a social network favored by Pittsburgh Synagogue shooter Robert Bowers, QAnon supporters, and Capital/#stopthesteal insurrectionists

Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil continues to trot his solo band out on the road for shows in less-than-optimal vocal shape, to put it kindly. Fan-filmed footage from a recent show in California that surfaced earlier this week continues to show that the singer has not made good on his pledge to improve his performances,

Former As I Lay Dying guitarist Nick Hipa, who recently announced that he’d quit the band a year prior after a two-year stint in their reunion, has launched a new project, Mire, along with guitarist Ryan Glisan and vocalist Benton McKibbern. You can stream the outfit’s debut single, “Refined,” below. As a general fan of Nick’s — both

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: Grammy-nominated band Trivium — Matt Heafy [vocals, guitar], Corey Beaulieu [guitar], Paolo Gregoletto [bass], and Alex Bent [drums] — have just shared the video for the new single “The Phalanx.” Watch it below. “‘The Phalanx’ was like an old muscle car sitting in the driveway with no engine,” says Gregoletto about the song’s unique evolution and

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: The North American leg of the Bay Strikes Back tour featuring Testament, Exodus, and Death Angel has been postponed until 2022.     “We were really on the fence with this decision,” says Testament guitarist Eric Peterson. “But seeing other bands make it through with a few mild cases and other bigger bands just canceling their entire tours, we felt

Three members of Avenged Sevenfold have teamed up on a Misfits cover to ring in the start of October, or as I’ve seen a lot of folks saying online lately, “spooky season.” Can we please knock it off with that shit? So cringe. Guitarist Zacky Vengeance, bassist Johnny Christ and drummer Brooks Wackerman all don

Shadow of Intent have released a brand new song, “From Ruin… We Rise,” to go along with the announcement of their next album, Elegy. I’m just one listen in so far, but my snap hot take is this: this is the direction I hoped to see Shadow of Intent go after showing so much promise

The pandemic has been awful by pretty much any measure, but the silver lining as music fans is that the forced down-time resulted in a number of bands putting out new music sooner than expected and individual members of those bands retreating to their lairs to work on side projects. Killswitch Engage fans got double-lucky

The video for “Drone Corpse Aviator,” Archspire’s latest single, is entertaining as friggin’ hell, and SO so Archspire in a way fans of the band will instantly recognize! It’s got forced medical procedures, a ton of great practical effects, blood and gore, some killer band performance clips and, of course, a tongue-in-cheek attitude throughout. “Drone

Rivers of Nihil have released a new music for the song “The Void From Which No Sound Escapes” from their new album, The Work. It’s one of the strongest songs on one of the strongest metal albums of the year, so the clip was always bound to have that going for it. But as directed

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: In anticipation of their debut feature film — Ultrapop: Live at the Masonic Temple — due in October, The Armed have released an excerpt performance for “Where Man Know Want,” a feature track taken from their most recent album, Ultrapop. Filmed in the Tudor Room on the third floor of the Temple — the setting features beautiful

Two companies involved with event logistics at Knotfest Iowa have apologized for the débâcle that led to waits of more than two hours to buy a bottle of water at the 30,000-person festival, which took place this past weekend. Many fans who showed up to see Slipknot, Megadeth, Lamb of God, Gojira are more witnessed

Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner is on the mend following emergency heart surgery. The band announced yesterday that they were postponing the remainder of their current U.S. tour after Faulkner was hospitalized with “major medical heart condition issues.” Now Faulkner’s partner, Mariah Lynch (daughter of guitarist George Lynch), has offered the following update on social

Judas Priest have postponed the remainder of their current U.S. tour as a result of guitarist Richie Faulkner being hospitalized with “major medical heart condition issues.” Says the band in a statement: “It is with deep regret that we have to postpone the rest of our U.S. tour. Richie Faulkner has major medical heart condition

Dream Theater have joined the growing list of bands who have decided to postpone all of their 2021 tour dates due to Covid-19, citing “the varying local mandates across North America” as the reason. In a statement issued on social media, the band said that the tour is currently in the process of being rescheduled

Guns N’ Roses will release a new four-song EP, Hard Skool, on February 25, 2022. The effort will feature the newly-released title track, the recent single “Absurd,” and live recordings of the classics “Don’t Cry” and “You’re Crazy.” You can pre-order the Hard Skool EP here on CD, vinyl, or cassette. Vinyl copies won’t ship

Generation Kill, the band fronted by former Exodus vocalist Rob Dukes, have unleashed their music video for “Into The Black.” The song is taken from their forthcoming album MKUltra via Blood Blast Distribution. Prior to “Black,” the band has dropped their lead single “Never Relent” featuring incendiary guitarist Gary Holt, followed by the crushing track “Rat King.” Regarding “Black,”

Rage Against the Machine have posted a statement about current U.S. immigration policy, referencing the ongoing crisis at the border with Mexico and focusing on the recent influx of asylum-seekers from Haiti. Painting recent U.S. border policy as a continuation of a long legacy of inhumane behavior, the band said “the U.S. is a nation