Metal

PRAISE BE DIO!! Unleash the Archers, who released my absolute most favoritest album of 2020, will FINALLY get to take those songs on the road when they headline a 23-date trek of the U.S. in September. Frontwoman Brittney Slayes issued a statement that suggests the band might be playing Abyss in full — the wording

Kid Rock, aka Bob Ritchie, made some waves earlier this week when he called a fan at a Tennessee karaoke event a “fa**ot” for filming Rock with his phone while the singer was performing. Not that this kind of behavior is surprising given Rock’s history of unwavering political correctness but, ya know, waves in the

Good news for those of you who are into the more progressive, adventurous varieties of metal: Burial in the Sky are here to scratch every single itch your body has ever or will ever have. On “Anatomy of Us,” an ambitious 13-minute track that begins with a two-minute-long Pink Floyd-esque intro with acoustic guitar and

Former Nevermore shredder Jeff Loomis and his luscious blond locks have joined Graham Bonnet’s version of Alcatrazz. There are currently two competing versions of Alcatrazz: the one Loomis has joined, which features vocalist, co-founder and self-described “main songwriter” Bonnet, and a new version featuring original members Jimmy Waldo (keyboards) and Gary Shea (bass). Don’t worry, Arch Enemy fans; you

The Alrosa Villa in Columbus, OH operated as a music venue for 45 years, but perhaps is best known outside the immediate area as the site of Dimebag Darrel’s murder. December 8, 2004 is one of those “where were you when you found out?” moments, metalheads’ version of the JFK assassination; everyone’s got a story.

That Kid Rock slings homophobic slurs around like they’re candy from a piñata shouldn’t be all that shocking to anyone. Rock — aka Bob Ritchie Jr. — hasn’t exactly been a torch-bearer for PC culture over the past several years. Nevertheless, his latest public incident has got the culture wars as fired up as ever.

Linkin Park’s song “In the End,” from their 2000 breakthrough album Hybrid Theory, has surpassed 1 billion streams on Spotify. The song’s music video reached the same milestone on YouTube last summer. It has since eclipsed 1.2 billion views. Chart Data, a music industry charts, awards and industry news aggregator, was the first to report

My kid just turned six, and while he enjoys jamming metal in the car from time to time — his favorites are Anthrax, Ghost and Corrosion of Conformity — getting him to tap along to a metronome is the farthest we’ve gotten in his education as a musician. Jesús del Río, on the other hand,

On Saturday, June 5, George Lynch reunited with Dokken at the Live United Live Music Festival in Sunbury, Pennsylvania to perform the three songs: “Kiss of Death”, “Tooth and Nail” and “When Heaven Comes Down.” You can watch fan-filmed footage from the reunion below. The classic line-up of Dokken —  Don Dokken, Lynch, Jeff Pilson and Mick Brown — apparently have reunion tour dates booked, although

King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp and his wife, the actress and singer Toyah Willcox, have unveiled the latest entry in their “Sunday Lunch” series of cover videos that have captured the Internet’s attention in recent months. The duo’s latest video finds them covering ZZ Top’s “Sharp Dressed Man” along with the masked guitarist, Sidney Jake,

Former Judas Priest guitarist K.K. Downing has said he’s “justified” in calling his new group KK’s Priest, an obvious attempt to benefit from the name value of his former employers. Downing, who left Judas Priest in 2011 by his own volition and later became sour about not being invited back, launched KK’s Priest last year with two other

Periphery guitarist and mastermind Misha “Bulb” Mansoor has released a new solo single called “Echo Teuffel.” And if you’re wondering, yes, the title does come from the brand of guitar on which the track was composed. Explains Mansoor: “This song is aptly titled because it was born of me jamming on my rather unique Teuffel

Anthrax have released the fourteenth episodes of their Anthrax 40 for 40 video series, which celebrates the band’s 40th anniversary by taking a look at each individual ‘Thrax album over the course of the coming weeks. That will all lead up to a special career-spanning livestream performance on July 16 (the band’s actual 40th anniversary). Each album will get three

The organizers behind Voragos, a new 5-day rock cruise that will set sail in February of 2022, are betting that audiences rabid to get back to the live concert experience after a year and a half are ready to pack aboard cruise ships again now that the pandemic is fading into the rearview in America

Just a few months before the pandemic shut the world down, ex-The Dillinger Escape Plan vocalist Greg Puciato joined Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell on stage for the latter’s solo show in Los Angeles, performing the Chains classics “Would?” and “Down in a Hole,” (tackling Layne Stayley’s parts) and a cover of “Who’ll Stop

We’ve come to a really interesting spot in Anthrax’s ongoing Anthrax 40 for 40 retrospective/anniversary video celebration: 1990’s Persistence of Time. Part of the reason it’s such an interesting period in Anthrax’s career is because, well, Persistence of Time fucking rules — but part of it is that this period of the band has a lot

Almost five months after parting ways with Tommy Vext, Bad Wolves have announced that they’ve hired a new singer: Daniel “DL” Laskiewicz, former guitarist for The Acacia Strain. Laskiewicz previously collaborated with Bad Wolves on their 2019 album, N.A.T.I.O.N., albeit only as a songwriter (if I’m not mistaken). He’ll make his recording debut with the

And now, we bring you a very Volbig Volbulletin sure to send Volbeat fans into a state of Volbliss. Has Volbeat Volbuted a new Volbanger? No. Has Volbeat Volbuted TWO new Volbangers? Volbetcha! So now you’ve got some fresh material to which you can Volbeat-off. The new Volbeuphonies are called “Dagen Før,” which is Norwegian

Mötley Crüe’s Vince Neil played his first post-pandemic show as part of this past weekend’s Boone River Valley Festival in Iowa, and if you think he used the downtime he had during the past year-and-a-half to get in shape and make sure his voice was in peak condition for his return, well, you don’t know

You can add Dynamo Metalfest to the growing list of festivals going forward as planned this summer, albeit in a slightly different form than originally envisioned. The fest, which has the benefit of taking place later in the season (August 21 and 22) in the Netherlands, will feature mostly European bands as Covid-19-based international travel