Metal

Much like nu-metal, it appears that pop-punk is back in action. Rock’s Self-Appointed Savior has topped the charts with his own take on the genre, leading millions to start claiming that they were always down with Good Charlotte. Now, as pink hair dye, pink guitars, and slip-on Vans become cultural icons instead of relics, one

There’s a reason Mantar are not the biggest band in the world, despite writing some of the catchiest rock songs you’ll hear this side of our mortal coil. The German duo work hard to produce music that is both compelling and incredibly ugly on its face — they’re sort of our generation’s Eyehategod — and

At the 2018 Reading and Leeds Festival, Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley performed the Linkin Park track “Faint” alongside Mike Shinoda. This apparently led many to question whether or not Whibley could be a replacement for late singer Chester Bennington in Linkin Park. But Whibley is apparently smarter than those people, having responded to the

In a boldly honest move, Australian metalcore act Parkway Drive have canceled their upcoming North American tour with Hatebreed, The Black Dahlia Murder, and Stick To Your Guns in order to focus on internal conflicts within the band. We know this, because they straight-up told everyone. Here’s the statement the band have issued: “Dear friends,

Though power metallers Dragonforce already had some umph behind them when their track “Through the Fire and the Flames” was used in Guitar Hero, its appearance in the game was what vaulted them into households around the world. But now, in a new Tiktok video, guitarist Herman Li reveals how much the band got paid

Update: According to Richie Faulkner in an interview with East Coast Live, the “non-COVID related illness” that canceled the band’s Lowell, MA, show is a cold in Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford. However, Richie has made it clear that the band will make their next show in Halifax, saying (as transcribed by Blabbermouth): “We’re resting

Do we have any Seer fans in the house? Canadian band? Anyone? And Wormwitch, what about them? Any fans? I’ve heard these names before, but I don’t know them at all. And now, I’ll only ever know them as bands that have featured the guys from Vital Spirit, because holy shit, Vital Spirit’s upcoming debut

Lord Ahriman of satanic black metallers Dark Funeral is our guest this week! We discuss his thoughts on Shakespeare and memorable theatrical performances, why the rhythms on the band’s new album We Are The Apocalypse were a primary focus, and being unable to leave Cancun, Mexico, when the pandemic hit the world. We also talk about how

Dream Theater! Aw, what the FUCK? Yup, Dream Theater won this year’s Best Metal Performance Grammy for their track “The Alien.” This is especially wack because everyone knows that if anyone really should have won this year’s Best Metal Performance Grammy, it should’ve been Gojira. The other nominees for this year’s award were as follows:

Has anyone reading this ever tried Viagra? I have not, and I’ve always wondered what it’s like (I mean, besides being like just having a boner). But something I’ll put out there is that I don’t think there should be a stigma attached to its use. So what if you need some pep to get

Whenever a rock star’s death in any way involves drugs or alcohol, there is a body of genre fans that feels the need to chime in with something along the lines of, Sucks, but fuck you for killing yourself with that garbage. Instead of humanizing their fallen idols, or looking at what got them to

Man, at times The Crow feels unrescuable as a property. This is in part due to how many people have tried to put their spin on it — remember when Rob Zombie was going to write a version? — and partly because the original film is such a masterpiece of style. Even if you hate

Traditional heavy metalers Haunt have announced their newest album called Windows of Your Heart, which’ll be their seventh full-length record. They have released a lyric video for for the title track to make the deal just a little sweeter. The album will feature a new line-up for the Fresno, CA, act, consisting of singer/guitarist Trevor

You gotta love Philadelphia-based sleaze metallers Devil Master. The band merge black thrash with snotty Japanese punk, bathe everything in pink light, and won’t perform unless their mic stands are all dripping with fake cobwebs. Now, the bubblegum-flavored hate brigade have dropped a new single via a pretty rad performance video. The track, “The Vigour

In a new interview with Jose Mangin on Sirius XM’s Liquid Metal, Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine revealed that Testament’s Steve DiGiorgio was the bassist who replaced Dave Ellefson after his unfortunate firing due to an infidelity. Here’s what Dave said: “We obviously had that weird little…well, it wasn’t little, but we had something happen that

If you want grindcore that’ll peel your face off and feed it to you, you’d be hard-pressed to find a band better at making it than Singapore’s Wormrot. Not only do the grind three-piece play the kind of music that causes immediate panic and/or excitement, but they can also do so at the drop of

In case you had anything big happen in your life since 2019, nu-metal click-click-boomers Saliva were planning to reunite with their vocalist Josey Scott. This reunion, unfortunately, was put “on hold” in early 2021 (maybe the two sides just didn’t click, or click, or even boom). Now, however, it looks like Santa Claus is real,

If there’s any band on top of the world right now, then it’s definitely Ghost. IMPERA, the Swedish occult rockers’ latest, debuted at #2 on Billboard and sold a whopping 62,500 physical copies during its first week (70,000 if you count digital). If that weren’t enough, they’ve got a lot more music videos on the

Sometimes, all it takes is a name. When I first saw Hosticide‘s e-mail in my inbox, my immediate thought was that I needed to know what ‘hosticide’ is. Is it when a parasite kills its host? Is it killing your host, like at a dinner party? Did it actually have to do with hostility or

Corpsegrinder is a name synonymous with death metal. He is one of the most iconic and influential death metal frontmen ever and living proof that sometimes metal is more World of Warcraft and claw games than murder and mayhem. Well, sometimes at least. Maybe his mom (and literally every mom in the Midwest) would have