Metal

As if the metal world hasn’t already been rocked to pieces lately with the loss of our God a few weeks ago, we’ve lost another. Brent Hinds, a founding and integral member of Mastodon, passed away August 20 in a tragic motorcycle accident. Last night (August 22), the band played their first show since Hinds’

Let the two-stepping begin. That might not seem like something that would be said about anything called Snow and Flurry, but here we are. The Midwest hardcore festival is returning for its ninth year of merriment in the last 11 years, and I can hear the pits already opening up. They’ve essentially got the lineup

Resident fancy car collector and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Sammy Hagar really does stay busy. With his restaurants, cool whips, and music, of course, this fool does not know how to sit his ass down. That’s okay though, since what he’s dishing out is always freshly served. This time, he’s dropping a

This isn’t surprising and, normally, I wouldn’t even talk about this clown or any of the other ones who super support the circus that is our current administration. But, I couldn’t get over the fact that Jon Schaffer, founding guitarist of Iced Earth, used the word “grateful” to describe his feelings for the grand master

Black Flag‘s new lineup has barely had time to marinate before hitting the road mad extensively. When the new members, who include vocalist Max Zanelly, bassist David Rodriguez, and drummer Bryce Weston playing alongside the OG Greg Ginn, were announced back in April, they already had a full ass European tour laid out. Now, they’ve

The girlies are fighting again and boy, is it giving me life. There’s been some drama amongst the Saliva camp with the band’s current and former members for a little while now. Brad Stewart, who’s been the bassist for the band since 2015, is getting pretty sick and tired of former frontman Josey Scott coming

A completely unexpected mid-tour shake up took place in the Cradle of Filth camp, as keyboardist/vocalist Zoe Marie Federoff announced via social media that she was quitting the band. The announcement took place yesterday, during which she said she simply couldn’t continue moving forward. “It is with deep regret I share that for personal reasons

I guess it’s that time of year again, kiddos. Summer’s getting closer and closer to its end, so we gotta start looking to the end of the year. Holidays, family gatherings, lots of food, and maybe a dash of regretful decisions are ahead. But one thing you may not ever regret is getting tickets to

Their first U.S. tour in eight years may be kicking off this week, but Canadian progressive metal powerhouse Anciients have already announced a second run of dates here in the States (and some Canadian stops too). Kicking off in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada on October 29 and coming to a close on November 28 in Missoula,

Do you dig it when a band plays he entirety of an album on their tour? What about when they play two full albums? Pretty sick, right? That’s the premise for the North American headlining tour that Australian progressive metal act Ne Obliviscaris announced today. Not only will they play Exul, but they’ll also run

I can’t imagine how hard it’s gotta be in the Mastodon camp right now. Sure, things were rocky between the remaining members of Mastodon and their now late guitarist Brent Hinds, but they were together as a band for a quarter of a century. Earlier today, surviving guitarist Bill Kelliher shared a tribute to his

When Japanese kawaii-metal outfit Babymetal dropped their most recent album METAL FORTH, one of the immediately noticeable aspects of its release was the fact that there were so many damn collaborations. From Slaughter To Prevail to Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello, there were singles from the album that included some of music’s more recognizable

It’s been a hell of a ride for French progressive metal outfit Gojira. They won a Grammy last year for their Olympics opening performance and track that broke the damn internet. They’ve toured all over the place off the back of that success and now, with the world remembering just how damn good the Duplantier

one of the strangest things that’s come about from the Deftones camp in recent years was the revelation that guitarist Stephen Carpenter refuses to play any of the band’s international shows. He just doesn’t travel abroad and no one really seems to know why, though there are some reports that suggest what’s going on there…

Six years after officially calling it quits, Dutch death/thrash metal band Izegrim will once again hit the stage as a unit, only this time that stage will be floating on the Caribbean during this year’s 70000 Tons Of Metal cruise. Founded in 1996, the band recorded five albums and toured all over the world with

(CW: Suicide) Following a long battle with his mental health, Swedish blackened death metal outfit Sacramentum announced that one of their founding members Nisse Karlén committed suicide at the age of 50. News of his passing was made public through a post on the band’s official social media pages, in which the surviving members revealed

Next year marks the 30th anniversary of Cryptopsy‘s iconic album None So Vile and they’re jumping on the nostalgia act pretty early. This coming January, the Canuck technical death titans will be heading out to Europe and the United Kingdom for a tour and they recently announced they’ll play select songs from that record each

Stoner/doom metal outfit Stoned Jesus have a new album coming out in a couple weeks and they’ve dropped another single on our collective heads. And while the band admits it deals with “some heavy topics,” they opted to release a music video that showed the fun atmosphere that went into recording Songs to Sun. The

Ready for some skull crushing brutality? Because the latest single “Autisimus Prime” from PeelingFlesh‘s upcoming release PF Radio 2 has a little extra somethin’ added onto it thanks to the inclusion of Kiriakos Destounis of Embryectomy. Set for release on September 26, PF Radio 2 features 10 new brutal tracks from the slam/brutal deathcore for

In the world of professional wrestling, there’s this concept called “cheap heat.” It’s when a wrestler, usually the bad guy or “heel”, talks shit about the town the promotion’s performing in that night. Usually they’ll make fun of something like their terrible sports team, the allegation that everyone in the arena is too dumb/broke/ugly to