Metal

Lewis and Henry de Jong, the brothers behind Alien Weaponry, join us this week! We discuss the the band’s new album, Tangaroa, the record’s themes of environmental awareness and how everyone needs to do more, why they felt writing about their Maori heritage was extremely important, how touring has changed their perspective on major issues

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: New Jersey’s progressive metal masters, Symphony X, will kick off their “25th Anniversary North American tour 2022” on May 10th at Irving Plaza in New York City. The 27-date trek will make stops in Montreal, Chicago, and Portland before concluding in Montclair, NJ on June 12th. Today, the band is proud to welcome Haken as direct

Sharon Burns, principal of Eden High School in St. Catherines, Ontario, has come under fire from some of her students’ parents… ostensibly for being an Iron Maiden fan. The controversy began when Burns posted a pair of photos on Instagram. In the first (above), she’s throwning horns while standing in front of an Iron Maiden

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: It’s the End of Existence for The Browning — but not literally. The band has announced its new album, titled End of Existence, out December 3 via Spinefarm. Pre-order it here.  The band has also shared the video for the title track. Watch it below.  End of Existence was written, performed, recorded, engineered and mixed by The Browning’s impresario Jonny McBee. It’s

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: Slashercore outfit, Ice Nine Kills have dropped the fourth and final new track from their upcoming album The Silver Scream 2: Welcome To Horrorwood prior to its release this coming Friday, October 15th via Fearless Records. Today’s offering submitted into evidence is titled “Funeral Derangements” and is inspired by the Stephen King

The friendship between liberal activist Tom Morello and conservative whacko Ted Nugent is unlikely, but the Rage Against the Machine guitarist explained earlier this year that the two are pals who regularly exchange birthday pleasantries and have a lot more in common than you’d think. Morello has now doubled down and defended that friendship in

Alice Cooper guitarist Nita Strauss, an acclaimed shredder in her own right, just announced a solo tour set for later this year. Surely she didn’t expect to get this kind of press bump so soon after the announcement, but hey, all press is good press, right? It certainly makes it easier to laugh off since

“He took cancer and kicked it right in the fuckin’ face,” shouted Exodus frontman Steve “Zetro” Souza during their set last night (Thursday, October 7), before welcoming drummer Tom Hunting back to the stage. The band’s performance at the Aftershock festival in Sacramento, CA was Hunting’s first since he was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma, a form of

Here’s some crowd-pleasing music for your Halloween party. Creeping DeathThe Edge Of Existence EP (eOne) There’s a lot of death metal out there. Not much of it makes me want to smash my head through a plate glass window (in a good way). I don’t know where Creeping Death found their stash of riffs but

Slipknot’s massive North American tour with Killswitch Engage, Fever 333 and Code Orange is in full swing, and by all accounts the performances are absolute fire… literally. The pyro is insane. But bad jokes aside, it’s no surprise that Slipknot are out killing it after over a year and a half of down time, and

Just a few weeks after the release of his widely loved and critically acclaimed new album, God is Partying — which many (including this writer) are hailing as the best work of his career — Andrew W.K. has abruptly disappeared from the public eye, canceling his upcoming tour dates and deleting all of his social

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 October are in. More than half (186)

Nearly four years after the release of their face-fuckingly good Order of Torment, Genocide Pact have, at last, announced their third full-length album… which will also be called Genocide Pact! Says vocalist/Guitarist Tim Mullaney: “This album reflects on the feeling of watching the world crumble while dealing with personal tragedy… You turn on the news and

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