Alice Cooper guitarist Nita Strauss, an acclaimed shredder in her own right, just announced a solo tour set for later this year. Surely she didn’t expect to get this kind of press bump so soon after the announcement, but hey, all press is good press, right? It certainly makes it easier to laugh off since
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Slipknot’s massive North American tour with Killswitch Engage, Fever 333 and Code Orange is in full swing, and by all accounts the performances are absolute fire… literally. The pyro is insane. But bad jokes aside, it’s no surprise that Slipknot are out killing it after over a year and a half of down time, and
Jeremy Spencer, aka Grim Synner from Psycho Synner (the band formerly known as Psychosexual) — and former drummer for Five Finger Death Punch — is our guest on this special half-episode of the podcast! We discuss why the band rebranded from Psychosexual to Psycho Sinner, his plan to release nine albums on the same day
Every month we take a look at Spotify’s ‘monthly listeners’ counts for several hundred metal bands and compare them side by side to gauge their relative popularity at any given moment. For more on why we’re doing this column and the methodology behind it, read this. The numbers for October are in. More than half (186)
Ever wondered about the identity of the woman on the cover of Converge’s Jane Doe? I didn’t! I mean, the album is called Jane Doe, fer Chrissakes. It’s literally telling you not to think about it. But now we’re all gonna be thinking about it anyway, because a French actress and model, Audrey Marnay, believes
Vended, the band featuring Simon Crahan, son of Shawn “Clown” Crahan, and Griffin Taylor, son of Corey Taylor, have announced their first U.S. tour. The thirteen-date trek is scheduled to kick off in November. The Slipknot progeny recently released a new single, “Asylum,” No word on an upcoming album or EP from the budding metal
Bad Wolves have posted a new single, “House of Cards,” their second to feature new vocalist Daniel “DL” Laskiewicz (ex-The Acacia Strain). Their first single, “Lifeline,” which arrived in September, has amassed over 1.2 million YouTube views since its release. Laskiewicz replaces Tommy Vext (né Cummings), who split with the group at the start of 2021. The
Less than a month after we learned that Trapt were now on the far-right social network Gab, the band’s frontman, Chris Taylor Brown, is now openly feuding with the company’s co-founder and CEO, Andrew Torba. The way it presents itself — a social network favored by Pittsburgh Synagogue shooter Robert Bowers, QAnon supporters, and Capital/#stopthesteal insurrectionists
Spencer Elden, the baby from the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind, is suing the band. Elden, now age 30, claims in the lawsuit that neither he nor his legal guardians consented to the photo; that the band failed to make good on a promise to cover his penis with a sticker; that he has been sexually
Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil continues to trot his solo band out on the road for shows in less-than-optimal vocal shape, to put it kindly. Fan-filmed footage from a recent show in California that surfaced earlier this week continues to show that the singer has not made good on his pledge to improve his performances,
Former As I Lay Dying guitarist Nick Hipa, who recently announced that he’d quit the band a year prior after a two-year stint in their reunion, has launched a new project, Mire, along with guitarist Ryan Glisan and vocalist Benton McKibbern. You can stream the outfit’s debut single, “Refined,” below. As a general fan of Nick’s — both
OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: Grammy-nominated band Trivium — Matt Heafy [vocals, guitar], Corey Beaulieu [guitar], Paolo Gregoletto [bass], and Alex Bent [drums] — have just shared the video for the new single “The Phalanx.” Watch it below. “‘The Phalanx’ was like an old muscle car sitting in the driveway with no engine,” says Gregoletto about the song’s unique evolution and
OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: The North American leg of the Bay Strikes Back tour featuring Testament, Exodus, and Death Angel has been postponed until 2022. “We were really on the fence with this decision,” says Testament guitarist Eric Peterson. “But seeing other bands make it through with a few mild cases and other bigger bands just canceling their entire tours, we felt
Shadow of Intent have released a brand new song, “From Ruin… We Rise,” to go along with the announcement of their next album, Elegy. I’m just one listen in so far, but my snap hot take is this: this is the direction I hoped to see Shadow of Intent go after showing so much promise
I really dug Sixx:A.M.’s first album, The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack, which came out in 2007. The brainchild of Mötley Crüe bassist/songwriter Nikki Sixx (duh) and DJ Ashba (ex-Guns N’ Roses, ex-Beautiful Creatures), along with singer James Michael, the album contained song after song of big hard rock hooks, and the autobiographical element connecting to Sixx’s
The video for “Drone Corpse Aviator,” Archspire’s latest single, is entertaining as friggin’ hell, and SO so Archspire in a way fans of the band will instantly recognize! It’s got forced medical procedures, a ton of great practical effects, blood and gore, some killer band performance clips and, of course, a tongue-in-cheek attitude throughout. “Drone
Earlier this week, Judas Priest were forced to call off the remainder of their in-progress U.S. tour after guitarist Richie Faulkner was hospitalized with “major medical heart condition issues.” The 41-year-old musician’s partner, Mariah Lynch (daughter of guitarist George Lynch), has since said that following emergency surgery, Faulkner is “stable and resting.” Now Tesla guitarist
OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: In anticipation of their debut feature film — Ultrapop: Live at the Masonic Temple — due in October, The Armed have released an excerpt performance for “Where Man Know Want,” a feature track taken from their most recent album, Ultrapop. Filmed in the Tudor Room on the third floor of the Temple — the setting features beautiful
Aaron Lewis, celebrity Republican and frontman for Staind, recently lead an audience in Scranton, PA in a chant of “Fuck Joe Biden.” The chant was intended to be doubly insulting since Biden was born in Scranton, and you’re supposed to care what the people from the place in which you were involuntarily born think about
Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner is on the mend following emergency heart surgery. The band announced yesterday that they were postponing the remainder of their current U.S. tour after Faulkner was hospitalized with “major medical heart condition issues.” Now Faulkner’s partner, Mariah Lynch (daughter of guitarist George Lynch), has offered the following update on social
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