Metal

Okay, you assholes. Who dosed my afternoon whiskey with high grade psychedelics?! I’m still on the clock and I was going to write about the new Jerry Cantrell music video for “Prism of Doubt,” but what I just watched has to be the result of an acid flashback or I’ve been sabotaged. Jerry Cantrell’s Brighten

Black Metal Rainbows, the group that brought us the book by the same name, have now released a compilation benefitting queer youth. The album, released on Bandcamp Friday, featured contributions from  Krallice, Dawn Ray’d, Pupil Slicer, Caïna, Sacred Son, Merzbow, and more. These bands are coming together to speak out against the massive outcry from

Hella heavy Australian punishers To The Grave announced last week that they are unleashing a new album, Director’s Cuts, out February 24 via Unique Leader. They also dropped a video for single “Red Dot Sight.” [embedded content] The band comment on the new album: “This is the refinement of our combined musical tastes, fuelled by our

When Machine Head kicked off their fall tour this past Thursday, fans were met with a slightly different lineup on stage, as Havok guitarist Reece Alan Scruggs was suddenly filling in for Wacław “Vogg” Kiełtyka. While this may cause some fans to question about whether there was another shake up within the Machine Head ranks,

If you’re a nerd for old-school, Swiss proggy thrash, it’s your lucky day. Coroner haven’t made an album in 30 years, but they’re about to change that. According to a recent interview with Blabbermouth, guitarist Tommy Veterrli says the band will start making their new record in February of next year. They haven’t released a

The pandemic was one of the most single-handedly destructive forces for the music industry over the last few years. Forced lockdowns made bands put a hold on record releases and tour dates, causing issues for everyone involved. For Cypher16, the return to normalcy in recent months means they can finally get back to putting out

Are you a vinyl enthusiast that’s sick and tired of their turntable not looking deadly enough? Maybe you want multiple pointy corners of brushed metal to stick out past the record you’re listening to. Are you such a massive Metallica fanboy that no cost is too much for anything they put out? Then maybe this…thing

If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember the early 2000s as an era where gothic metal exploded. Emotive yet epic, sprawling creations lined the walls of our mind’s eye, creating a memorable soundtrack for a period of our lives. For many of us, Lacuna Coil’s 2002 masterclass in alternative metal, Comalies, was an album

There’s no bloodier horror movie on the menu this year than Terrifier 2. The extreme slasher starts Art the Clown, a resurrected clown serial killer who delights in torturing and killing his victims in some pretty creative and fucked-up ways. Made on a very low budget of $250,000, Terrifier 2 features some of the grossest

Vended, the band featuring Corey Taylor’s son Griffin and Shawn “Clown” Crahan’s son Simon, just dropped a new single and it sounds eerily familiar. Seriously, if you hit play on “Overall” and closed your eyes, you can hear bits and pieces of another Iowa-based band that some would say have already achieved “world domination” among

Ask any Anthrax fan which vocalist they like more, Joey Belladonna or John Bush, and you’ll likely get an impassioned answer. It’s like asking whether someone’s a Rolling Stones or a Beatles person — there’s no wrong answer, but they’ll explain their answer in great detail. So for fans who consider themselves stans for the

Be honest – who here has tried to “Live Mas,” only to end up with a case of the “uh-ohs” that ended up with a mad sprint to the bathroom? The classic Taco Bell experience is a common occurrence and now you’ve got a decent soundtrack to it, as the fast food chain has tapped

This past weekend, Puscifer livestreamed a pair of concert/feature films titled V is for Versatile: A Puscifer Concert Film and Parole Violator: A Puscifer Concert Film Featuring Conditions of My Parole, featuring music from both of those eras. Originally, the streams started at October 28 at 3 p.m. EST and would only run for 72

If you’ve been following along with Ghost’s occasional story videos over the years, you know they weave themselves pretty deeply into the band’s overarching lore. Last time we saw Papa Emeritus IV, he was doing some Mr. Miyagi shit on a beach and it was revealed that there’s a European Summer tour coming up, though

We all know that today’s a day for ghouls and ghosts and gourds (as in pumpkins… it’s a stretch, I know), but it’s also a wonderful day for some haunting prog metal. Thanks to Crippled Black Phoenix and their newly released music video for “Bonefire,” we get some crisp autumn air distilled into a song

Earlier this week, we ran a list of the best tracks from the New Wave of American Heavy Metal and because of that piece, I’ve been stuck in a time loop. You may be in 2022, dreading the oncoming election, civil unrest, and other unavoidable bullshit we peons have to live with, but to me,

We’ve all heard of bands getting beers brewed in their honor or whiskeys distilled using their branding, but the death metal giants in Cannibal Corpse are taking a different approach. Thanks to a new partnership with Concepts Cafe, you’ll be able to skullfuck your mornings with a fresh cup of Beheading and Brewing coffee. Featuring

For those lucky enough to be in attendance last night, Detroit’s Saint Andrew’s Hall was a place of healing. Friends and fans of the late, irreplaceable Trevor Strnad, who passed away earlier this year at 41 years old, gathered to both pay tribute to the man and usher in a new era for The Black

There’s simply no disputing it; Judas Priest‘s 1990 album Painkiller is without a shadow of a doubt one of the greatest metal albums of all time. If you disagree, we’re gonna have words. Apparently the gents in Exmortus agree, as they’ve lent their talents to a tribute album by Glory or Death Records titled Bow

Autumn rocks, but the moment we’re talkin’ 30 degrees and below with chances of snow here on the east coast, it’s the fucking worst. That’s why for the 3,000 people lucky/wealthy enough to vacation aboard this year’s 70,000 Tons of Metal will be doin’ it right — especially now that we know the first band