Metal

Your winter just got a healthy infusion of live death metal: Obscura, Abysmal Dawn, Vale of Pnath and Interloper have announced an extensive North American tour in February and March of 2022! The nearly seven-week run goes ALL over the U.S. (even Florida! but still no Montana, sorry) and eight cities in Canada, ensuring heshers

Nightwish paid tribute to late Children of Bodom frontman Alexi Laiho during their performance in Oslo, Norway this past Sunday, November 14. On-stage monitors showed a photo of Laiho while the band performed their song “The Greatest Show on Earth.” You can watch fan-filmed footage of the tribute below. Nightwish keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen detailed his

Dream Theater have announce rescheduled dates for the tour they postponed this year. The new dates are below (via The PRP). Guitarist John Petrucci has said “wasn’t a unanimous decision.” Dream Theater released a new album,  A View From the Top of the World, on October 22. 02/02 Mesa, AZ – Mesa Arts Center [tickets]02/04

Subtly. Elegance. Grace. Finesse. These are the kinds of adjectives often used to describe the music of the post-life metal band Genocide Pact… …and never have they been more appropriate than on the band’s latest single, “Deprive/Degrade.” Like the gentle, soothing plink-plink-plink sounds of rain hitting your windowsill in the night, “Deprive/Degrade” is a massage

Jinjer have released a new music video for “Disclosure!,” a track from their most recent album, Wallflowers. Bassist Eugene Abdukhanov explains: “The track ‘Disclosure!’ and the video itself is a very important video for Jinjer. Not only is it one of our favorite tracks on the new album as well as live, our ex-guitarist Dmitriy

When Megadeth let go of bassist David Ellefson earlier this year following a sex scandal, the band (mainman Dave Mustaine, really) commented that they had an “already strained relationship” with Ellefson, implying the scandal was just the final straw. Ellefson has now fired back at that assertion, indicating their working relationship was just fine but

New York brass collective Brass Against have apologized for the incident that saw frontwoman Sophia Urista pee on a fan’s face on stage during the band’s Welcome to Rockville performance on Thursday, November 11. Posting on Twitter, the band said: “We had a great time last night at Welcome to Rockville. Sophia got carried away.

Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe is the latest notable metal musician to publicly address last week’s tragedy at the Astroworld festival. On Friday, November 5, there was a crowd surge during Scott’s headlining set at the Astroworld music festival in Houston, Texas. Eight people, ages 14 – 27, were crushed to death, and hundreds more were

Bleed from Within have released a new single, “I Am Damnation.” You can check it out via the below music video, which was directed by Pavel Trebukhin. Catch Bleed From Within at their forthcoming UK headline tour, where they will be debuting “I Am Damnation” live: Nov 23 – The Fleece, Bristol – UK [tickets]Nov 24 –

Following their Awake EP released this past spring and their recent cover of Billie Eilish’s “Everything I Wanted,” doom-pop progenitors Som (comprised of current and former members of Constants, Junius and Caspian) have unveiled plans for a new full-length album and released its first single, “Animals.” Vocalist and guitarist Will Benoit explains of the song, a shimmering

Press release: In the lead up to Wild Thing’s 10th anniversary in 2022, Wild Thing Presents / Wild Thing Records have today announced rebranding as Wild Thing Music Group. [embedded content] The changes announced today see Wild Thing’s structure shift to a four-pillar model under the one banner; encompassing Management, Label – Wild Thing Records, Merchandise – Wild Thing Music Store,

August Burns Red hadn’t released a new song in a whole month, and that simply would not do. So now they’ve unveiled a cover of “Santa Claus is Coming to Town.” I haven’t listened to it. I won’t listen to it. I refuse to keep participating in this “Christmas starts in November” bullcrap. Lemme get

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: Architects will be performing an exclusive global streaming event from the legendary Abbey Road Studios on December 11th. The performance will be backed by Parallax Orchestra, made up of some of England’s best and most versatile classical musicians, arranged and written by Simon Dobson, Parallax Orchestra’s conductor and a three-times British Composer award (BASCA) winner for his compositions.

Volumes frontman Michael Barr has tested positive for COVID-19. As a consequence, Barr sat out the band’s show last night, November 10, in Minneapolis, MN. In a statement, Barr says he will “go into isolation for the next few days.” It’s not presently clear when he’ll return to the band’s current run with Varials, UnityTX,

The European and American legions have had their day in the press, so it’s now time to shine a scorching mid-day light on some of the black metal acts who call rainforests home instead of snow-capped ones. The bands from these countries can not only stand toe to toe with their Western counterparts when it

Avenged Sevenfold singer M. Shadows promised this past summer that the band’s new album would come out before next summer. Will the band stick to that self-imposed timeline? According to a new interview with the frontman, maybe… but maybe not. Speaking to the Tuna On Toast With Stryker podcast, Shadows revealed that Covid-19 restrictions preventing an

As our civilization continues its inexorable devolution back into the Dark Ages, there are now lunatics on the Internet who believe that last week’s Astroworld tragedy was part of a deliberate Satanic sacrifice performed by Travis Scott and/or Live Nation. Furthermore, they think that Scott went to fairly substantial lengths to broadcast this information. For

I think it’s safe to say when it was recently announced that five former members of In Flames were launching a new band, The Halo Effect, a lot of us were hoping it would sound more like In Flames than In Flames does these days. Because these days In Flames sounds like they should be

After a long wait, melodic death metal pioneers Dark Tranquillity have just announced an extensive North American tour for early 2022! The band’s first visit to our shores in over three years will bring with it the crushing grooves of Kataklysm and the progressive death metal of Nailed to Obscurity. A little something for everyone

Welp, this is rich: you can now watch beloved ’80s/’90s movie star and comedian Gilbert Gottfried say the word “Christfucker.” And it’s all thanks to death metal-noise-hardcore face-melters Portrayal of Guilt. Someone in the band’s camp, or perhaps just a zealous supporter, saw fit to hire Gottfried on Cameo to record a plug for the