Metal

The legendary Jackass crew has gotten together for one last go-round, Jackass Forever, slated to arrive October 22. And, despite the aging cast of characters we know and love, they’re pulling off stunts as moronic and hilarious as ever. “Concussions aren’t great. But as long as you have ’em before you’re 50, it’s cool. And
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Periphery mastermind Misha Mansoor is back on the podcast this week! Our conversation centers around his new solo album, Moderately Fast, Adequately Furious, releasing ten albums worth of Bulb archives last year, whether he ever plans to perform the Bulb material live, collaborating with his brother, and the trouble with getting honest feedback from friends.
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My first thought upon opening a press release announcing “White Buffalo,” the latest single from the Canadian rock duo Crown Lands, was “Holy SHIT, that band photo! Perfect fodder for my ongoing Twitter thread of outrageous metal band promo shots.” Behold: My second thought was that I should quit being a judgmental asshole and give
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It’s never too late to learn new tricks, right? Today, on this 18th day of July, the year of our lord 2021, I have fallen in love with Agrypnie, a band who combine melodic death-doom with black metal to intensely emotional, powerful effect. They’ve been around since 2004, and their sound has changed some over
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Germany’s Rage have released a new single and music video, “Virginity.” The track is the first offering from the band’s upcoming studio album Resurrection Day. You can watch the video below.  Resurrection Day will be released on September 17 via SPV/Steamhammer in the following configurations: DigiPak incl. poster — pre-order  2LP Gatefold, 140 g, orange vinyl, printed
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Official press release: English extreme metal legends Carcass recently debuted their grisly new single “Kelly’s Meat Emporium,” amplifying fan’s blood-thirst for the band’s 7th studio album, Torn Arteries, that’s out September 17. Today, they reveal drummer Dan Wilding’s beastly playthrough video for the song. Watch below via Gear Gods. Commenting on performing drums on “Kelly’s Meat Emporium.” Wilding states:  “I’m super excited to share this
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Official press release: Generation Kill have today unleashed their latest banger, “Rat King,” plus music video accompaniment. Not only that, but the band has also announced their forthcoming album MKUltra, out on September 27 via Blood Blast Distribution. Speaking on the release, frontman Rob Dukes (ex-Exodus) tells us: “I watched the documentary ‘Rats’ by filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, and it impacted me
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The press release for King Woman’s latest single, “Boghz,” says that the track is the “final preview” of the band’s upcoming album, Celestial Blues, which is due at the end of this month. But I’ve heard enough, frankly; between this song and the previous two singles, “Psychic Wound” and “Morning Star,” I can confidently say
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Master masher-upper William Maranci has released his latest masterpiece: an amalgamation of Slipknot’s “Duality” and Kid Cudi’s “Day ‘n’ Night.” You can check it out below. Slipknot are currently working on new music and they also have 1 – 7 albums’ worth of unreleased material including the fabled reportedly-reminiscent-of-Radiohead album Look Outside Your Window and a song about Paul Gray. More importantly, THEY’RE WORKING ON
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…Ra Diaz, of Suicidal Tendencies fame. Diaz will sit in for Korn’s regular bassist, Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu, who recently revealed he’d be sitting out the band’s immediate touring plans to focus on “personal issues” and “bad habits.” Regarding Diaz, Korn say: “We appreciate your kind words of support in response to the recent tour update
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It has now been more than four years since the release of Darkest Hour’s most recent album, Godless Prophets & the Migrant Flora. That’s the longest we’ve ever had to wait in-between Darkest Hour records! Granted, there was that whole pesky pandemic thing last year, and guitarist Mike Schleibaum has spent at least some time
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Deafheaven have once again courted some controversy with their latest music, switching from the aggressive screams of their past work to almost entirely clean-sung vocals on the two tracks they’ve released from their new album so far, “Great Mass of Color” and “The Gnashing.” In a new chat with Pitchfork, vocalist George Clarke explained that
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Following “Planet of Garbage,” the new song they released in June after a nearly seven year hiatus, progressive metallers Structures have unveiled a six-song EP, None of the Above. Brendan Murphy of Counterparts and Michael Barr of Volumes make guest appearances on the EP, which you can stream below and purchase here. [embedded content]
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