Metal

Howard Jones is back on the podcast! We discuss H.A.I.T.(How Awesome Is That), his movie watching podcast with Jamey Jasta and Charlie Bellmore; the imprint ’80s action movies left on us growing up’ the work environment that surrounded him during the making of the new Light the Torch album; his lyrical approach on the new

After years of waiting through legal battles between band members, Fear Factory fans finally got a new album from the band on Friday, June 18, titled Aggression Continuum. Longtime vocalist Burton Seabell’s voice appears on the album despite his exit from the band last year. The album arrives with a video for the opening track,

Download Pilot, the scaled-down version of the U.K.’s annual Download Festival, is taking place this weekend at the festival’s usual site in Donington Park. Although the full-scale annual Download Festival won’t be happening for the second year in a row as a result of the ongoing pandemic, Download Pilot, which will admit 10,000 fans instead of the

Official press release: Chicago’s Yakuza will begin recording their long-awaited, as-yet-untitled new studio album!   The band will enter Palisades Studio with engineer Sanford Parker (Yob, Voivod) later this month. The recording will be completed and mixed at Parker’s own Hypercube Studios. Set for worldwide release in the Spring of 2022, the record follows their critically lauded Beyul full-length (2012) and marks Yakuza’s

GWAR frontman Blöthar the Berserker appeared on Gutfeld! on Fox News yesterday, Friday, June 18. You can watch video of his appearance below. GWAR recently announced a tour with Napalm Death, Eyehategod, and Madball. Dates are as follows: $ – with Madball / Eyehategod supportingx – with Napalm Death / Eyehategod supporting# – Festival9/16/21 –

Back in January, we learned that Trivium’s Matt Heafy and Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda would be collaborating on a new track via their respective highly-successful Twitch channels. The fruit of those labors is now ripe. “In Defiance” features vocals and guitars by Heafy and production and programming by Shinoda; the duo share songwriting credit. Heafy

At the Gates have released “The Fall Into Time,” the latest awesome new track from their awesome new album, The Nightmare of Being. Says frontman Tomas Lindberg about the single and its accompanying music video: “Hello everybody! As you might have already guessed, this album is our most ambitious effort yet, including a lot of different orchestrations

Is death less sad if we all go at once during an extinction-level event? That’s ostensibly the premise of “Everyone Dies,” the new song from Crobot: “Nobody has to cry if everyone dies.” Fair enough. Whether or not you reject the premise or not, the song kicks a ton of ass. The band calls the

Clown from Slipknot has released “Brainwash Love – Shhh,” which is his, I dunno, I think twelfth solo track this week? Motherfucker is prolific. “Shhh,” which might more accurately be called “Drone,” arrives with a first year film student’s experimental short in which they somehow convinced someone from the drama department to put on a

Sevendust have added on to their previously announced July run of the U.S. with some tour dates in September alongside Tremonti, the project led by Mark Tremonti of Alter Bridge. Lydia Can’t Breathe will open. The headline dates are bookended by some major festival appearances. Anyone wanna join me at that Albany date?? Newly announced

Back in May of 2020, in the midst of the scariest period of the pandemic, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl penned a passionate op-ed for The Atlantic titled “The Day the Live Concert Returns” in which he openly and enthusiastically pined for the return of live music, writing at the time: “In today’s world of fear and unease

There are 56 ethnic groups recognized by the People’s Republic of China, and the Nu people are one of them. The group, who take their name from the nearby Nujiang river, aren’t known for red baseball caps and Adidas tracksuits, however, instead preferring cotton tunics. As for nu metal, the genre is as popular in

Public relations specialist and former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach recently got into a slap fight about songwriting credits with a fan on Twitter. The beef started following an announcement that the Bach-less Skid Row, which is now fronted by former Dragonforce singer ZP Theart, will perform their seminal 1991 sophomore album, Slave to the

Flotsam and Jetsam have announced a string of U.S. tour dates for this August in support of their new album, Blood in the Water. Although the trek currently only has eleven dates books, band reassures fans that “we are working on coming to your neck of the woods soon.” Here are the dates: Aug. 17

Courtney Love has once again slammed Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) and Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), leveling particularly damning allegations of abuse against the latter musician. In a June 13 Instagram post, Love slams Grohl and Krist Novoselic — former Nirvana bandmates of her late husband, Kurt Cobain — implying that they took advantage of

Pain, the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer Peter Tägtgren, have unveiled the band’s first original song in five years, “Party In My Head,” along with a music video. Tägtgren comments: “I decided to write a song about all the bullshit from the last year of lock-up and people’s struggle, including my own, to adapt to the new way of life.

Last week, Foo Fighters announced that they will reopen Madison Square Garden for live music on June 20, in what will be the first full-capacity concert in New York City since early March of 2020. The roughly 20,000 attendee concert is open only to those who can show proof of Covid-19 vaccination (or a recent

Anthrax have released the fifteenth and sixteenth episodes of their Anthrax 40 for 40 video series, which celebrates the band’s 40th anniversary by taking a look at each individual ‘Thrax album over the course of the coming weeks. That will all lead up to a special career-spanning livestream performance on July 16 (the band’s actual 40th anniversary). You can watch the new

Slipknot have rescheduled the slate of European summer tour dates they announced last December (likely knowing there was a good chance exactly this would end up happening), as many of the festival’s they were slated to play have been canceled for the year. Oh well; they tried. Some bands, like Meshuggah, have already punted their

Baltimore brutalists Misery Index have announced that they’re gonna release a new compliation of rarities and b-sides, Coffin Up the Nails, on July 9. The first single is a fairly straightforward cover of Bolt Thrower’s 1994 classic, “When Glory Beckons.” You can check it out below. Says the band of Coffin Up the Nails: “Much