Metal

The stoner doom blueprint has survived intact and mostly unchanged for decades, which is no small miracle in the musical world. You can pretty much count on hearing the usual sources of inspiration pop up from Ozzy-inflected vocals to Kyuss-dusted drop-tuned slack rifferama to Monster Magnet space weirdness. Long Island trio Restless Spirit tick all

It’s no secret that hardcore punk has always been at the forefront of pointing out social ills, political hypocrisy and the complete shit hammering the 99% suffers at the hand of the powerful 1%. While the rich, powerful and militarily connected continue to run rampant over the rest of us, you can always count on

During their most recent tour stop in Anaheim last night, grunge icons Alice In Chains whipped out a classic tune from their self-titled album from 1995 that rarely gets any live play these days. Fronted by William DuVall for the last 17 years (oh no, we’re all getting older…), the band has long had a

We’re still a few months out from the 2024 edition of the Inferno Metal Festival, but organizers were happy to announce earlier today that symphonic black metal stalwarts Dimmu Borgir will be taking the top of the weekend’s bill. Set to take place from March 28 to March 31 at various venues in Oslo, the

Back in 2021, Cincinnati’s Scab Hag conjured their first offering of disgusting bog-dwelling death metal. Pustulent Perversions turned heads as a down ‘n’ dirty EP embodying old school barbarity with a fresh edge. Now Scab Hag is back with another batch of homicidal hexes on their upcoming album, Wading Through Mephitic Filth. Today Decibel Magazine

Two years ago Heath Rave (Lotus Thrones, ex-Wolvhammer) came together with Jeff Wilson (Chrome Waves), Alan Cassidy (the Black Dahlia Murder) and Nathan Verschoor (UADA) and collaborated on a project using the nomenclature of Altars of the Moon. Resulting in Brahmastra, a two-track, 28-minute exploration into a more psychedelic and darker corner of doom metal

Hail Gwar, our lords and masters, for promising to emerge from their Antarctican stronghold and provide us with the ocular pleasure that is three online screenings of a previously filmed live recording next month. Dubbed the Scumdogs XXX Live event, this special screening will apparently feature not just the current ranks of Gwar, but some

When it comes to Wolves in the Throne Room, there are generally two schools of thought: those who think the band are overhyped hipsters who make black metal look goofy, and those who think they are one of the best things to happen to black metal. I’m probably one of the few folks who finds

Aglo is a (mostly) one-man Australian doom project launched in 2022 by Aaron Osborne (I Exist, Mental Cavity). Previous releases include a couple of EPs—Collector (2022) and Into the Maze (2023)—offered up to introduce the world to Aglo’s death-burnished doom sludge. The track we’re premiering today, “Shame as a Weapon,” sounds like Wolverine Blues-era Entombed played through a

Where they from?Their Bandcamp says Stockholm, Sweden but all their song titles are in Spanish, so I’m not sure what’s going on there exactly. Did I mention that I had to watch my NFL team lose to Taylor Swift’s boyfriend last night? Because I did, and it was as horrible as you can imagine. Why

Earlier this year there were reports and videos showing Kings of Thrash, the Megadeth cover band featuring ex-Megadeth members Jeff Young, David Ellefson and (sometimes) Chris Poland, had new music in the works. We wrote about it and called it a diss track against Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine. Well, it turns out that we were

Heavy metal burger joint and Christian-angering establishment Kuma’s Corner is back on their bullshit, only this time they’ve got mathcore act Botch on the brain. With the band’s upcoming shows in Chicago later this month, the eatery announced it’s releasing a special burger to mark the occasion and depending on your appetite and penchant for

Tommy Victor has earned his status as one of metal’s most tireless ironmen. Founder, vocalist, and guitarist for groove metal luminaries Prong and guitarist for the legendary Danzig, Victor has the battle scars from decades of pounding the pavement and navigating trip-wires of the ever-turbulent music landscape. He returns with Prong’s thirteenth studio effort, and

Forever Below, the first long player from New Jersey-based blackened death dealers Putrascension, is the way that the genre should be played. Sharing members with Tombs, Replicant, Windfaerer, Hammer Fight and more than another dozen regional acts, Putrascension execute the songs on Forever Below with an equal combination of aggression and style. The songwriting on Forever Below doesn’t go

After spending three months in a hospital following a scary motor vehicle accident, Year of the Knife vocalist Madi Watkins has finally recovered enough to be discharged. In a video posted to Twitter by her husband Brandon Watkins, you can see Madi being wheeled out the front door as medical staff stand and applaud her

Blue Ridge Rock Festival are back in the headlines already, and somehow, it’s worse than expected. They are now being investigated by the Virginia Department of Health because of gastrointestinal issues that are being reported by concert goers. This gross-out twist to the horror film that has been Blue Ridge Rock Fest comes after the

Dave Mustaine loves to grandstand for what he believes in, but this time, it was concert security and not aliens or government conspiracies that had him up in arms. Mustaine stopped Megadeth‘s concert last week when he saw multiple security personnel jumping on one person. The show was stopped in the middle of “Symphony Of

They’ve been radio silent since 2019, but finally we’ve been blessed—or cursed—with new music from Vastum. The band’s new record, Inward To Gethsemane, is out November 10 via 20 Buck Spin. They’ve released the first single from this album, “Indwelling Archon.” Of the single, Vastum vocalist Daniel Butler says: “‘Indwelling Archon’. It’s a song about birth and loneliness in

Moshing at a hardcore show really shouldn’t be surprising, but security was caught off guard during a Drain set at Riot Fest earlier this month. During their iconic song “California Cursed,” vocalist Sammy Ciaramitaro told the crowd to storm the band. “Your job is to jump this barricade and to get on this stage.” Like

Following the firing of their problematic previous singer and the hiring of a new one, Thy Art Is Murder drop a music video in support of their latest album, Godlike. The video is for “Destroyer of Dreams,” and it proudly boasts the vocals of new singer Tyler Miller from Aversions Crown. Those vocals were, of