Metal

Architects will be performing an exclusive global streaming event from the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London on December 11, exciting news on its own. But this is no ordinary show: 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

One of the biggest stories to come out of the metal world this week is that of The Word Alive recently recovering some stolen goods on tour using the Apple AirTag, whiskey, weed, twenty bucks in bribe money, and, presumably, some good ol’ fashioned charm. For those who don’t know, the short version is: the

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: In an effort to sublimate the negative energy surrounding everyone in 2020, legendary Japanese heavy rock band Boris focused all of their energy creatively and turned out the most extreme album of their long and widely celebrated career, NO. The band self-released the album, desiring to get it out as quickly as possible but intentionally

Five Finger Death Punch frontman Ivan Moody has shared a clip from the studio, where the band is currently working on their ninth album. The clip includes seventeen seconds of new FFDP music. That’s one second for each of Moody’s I.Q. points! You can listen below if Five Finger Death Punch is your thing. FFDP’s

Tool are making up for lost time with an extensive North American tour that’ll kick off January 10 and run through the middle of March (European and U.K. dates are scheduled for April and May). Now, you could just go to your local show of choice, assuming there’s one near you, or… … you could

Imperial Triumphant guitarist Zachary Ilya Ezrin is our guest this week. We discuss the band’s latest album, Alphaville, his thoughts on NFTs in music, embracing all the changes that come into the industry, making the band’s new live album available only on vinyl, the band’s relationship with New York City, and completing their first headlining

Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil made his return to live music this past Wednesday (November 24) at the annual ‘DrinksGiving” event in Las Vegas, his first show since falling from the stage and “breaking a few ribs” during his performance on October 15. Unfortunately the time off has not done Neil any good, as fan-filmed

The wizardly metal devotees at Two Minutes to Late Night are back with their latest cover, a version of Metallica’s “Blackened” — except the fast parts are slow and the slow parts are fast — with a star-studded cast of musicians. The lineup on this track consists of: Troy Sanders (Mastodon): vocalsDoc Coyle (Bad Wolves, ex-God Forbid): guitar Nate

Over the course of the past two years, Godsmack singer Sully Erna has been flagged by Facebook for spreading disinformation about Bernie Sanders, endorsed conspiracy theories about COVID-19, and asserted that the virus “not a global killer” despite the fact that it has, indeed, killed more than five million people worldwide. Regardless of his willingness

Revolver has become the second major metal media outlet to unveil their list of 2021’s best metal albums, after Decibel. You can check out Revolver‘s list below, or go here to read their explanations for each selection. 25. Frozen Soul – Crypt of Ice [embedded content] 24. Slaughter To Prevail – Kostolom [embedded content] 23. SeeYouSpaceCowboy – The Romance of Affliction

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: The heavy metal ‘n’ roll dark madcap visionaries collectively known as Avatar— vocalist Johannes Eckerström (vocals), guitarists Jonas Jarlsby and Tim Öhrström, bassist Henrik Sandelin, and drummer John Alfredsson — have shared another new song. Today, the band has dropped “Construction of Souls.” Listen below. It’s Avatar’s version of a holiday song! “This song will be to Christmas songs what Die Hard is to

Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi has released “Scent of the Dark,” which is described as “A fusion of new Iommi music, video and unique fragrance blended by Xerjoff’s Sergio Momo with major input from Tony.” You can check out the song below. There doesn’t seem to be a buy link for the fragrance as of yet.

Gared O’Donnell, singer for influential early ’00s post-hardcore band Planes Mistaken For Stars, has died. He was just 44 years old. The band announced the news of O’Donnell’s passing through their official Instagram account late last night, November 24, revealing he died yesterday while surrounded by his family. He had been fighting oesophageal cancer since

Imagine if, every morning when you sit upon the throne for your morning crap, you could rest your tuchus on Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich’s lap as you drop your load? Well, now you can, with the ability to load and re-load all you like: one enterprising man has made a custom Lars Ulrich toilet, with

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: Gold-selling hard rockers Of Mice & Men — Aaron Pauley (bass + vocals ), Valentino Arteaga (drums), Alan Ashby (guitar), and Phil Manansala (guitar) — will release their seventh album Echo on December 3 via SharpTone Records.  Today, the quartet shared the title track to the new album. Listen to the song and watch the visualizer below. “‘Echo’

Nominations for this year’s Grammys were announced yesterday. And in all the excitement over the nominees for Best Metal Performance and Best Rock Performance, we failed to notice that Marilyn Manson also scored TWO NOMINATIONS: one in the Album of the Year category, for his contributions to Kanye West’s recent release, Donda, and one in

Ghost have announced plans to tour Europe and the UK in 2022. Support will come from Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats and Twin Temple. Dates are below (via The PRP). Tickets go on sale this Friday, November 26 at 09:00am CET. Ghost recently released a new song, “Hunter’s Moon,” as part of the soundtrack for

Spencer Elden, the 30-year-old man who was the four-month-old baby on the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind, has amended his lawsuit against the band, claiming, amongst other things, that he was also photographed as a mini version of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. The suit, first filed in August, claims that neither Elden nor his legal guardians

Megadeth’s highly-anticipated new album, The Sick, the Dying, and the Dead, will finally be released in the spring of 2022. This according to Megamastermind Dave Mustaine himself, who tells American Songwriter magazine that the record’s title refers not to the pandemic or his recent battle with cancer, but, rather, to the 14th century bubonic plague

Death Angel riff master Rob Cavestany is our guest this week! We discuss the Grammy nomination of their last record, Humanicide, performing acoustic songs on the band’s latest live album, The Bastard Tracks, and what it was like revisiting deep cuts for it, fan backlash for having to reschedule the Bay Strike Backs tour with