Metal

At this point, it’s safe to say that everyone is assuming we’ll be able to move full-speed-ahead with shows again by the end of the summer. While there are bands like Sevendust, Byzantine, and Carnifex who are gonna roll the dice on hitting the road a little earlier in the season, August seems to be

Metallica have been deep in “some pretty serious writing” for their next album since last November. After first floating the idea of working on new music while under quarantine last April, by June Lars Ulrich had revealed that Metallica were, indeed, in writing mode. James and Rob have both said they’ve been busy working on new songs, too, and Kirk Hammett has trumpeted

Ben Thatcher of power duo Royal Blood is our guest this week! We discuss the band’s new album, Typhoons, the emotional clash of the lyrics and music, the importance of dedicating the record to Ben’s mother who recently passed away, using his DJ mind when it comes to sequencing an album, and the lasting mental

Fear Factory guitarist and primary songwriter Dino Cazares has again spoken up about the split between he and former vocalist Burton Seabell last year. Seabell quit the band after Cazares launched a Crowdfunding campaign to finish Aggression Continuum, which was first recorded in 2017. Burton called the fundraising effort a “scam,” and distanced himself from the project, but his vocals

Nine Inch Nails are among the bands preparing to venture back into the world of live concerts this coming fall with a pair of headline performances in Cleveland slated for September. The concerts will take place at the Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica on September 21 and 23. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 14 at

Tawny Kitaen (born Julie), the actress and model best known for starring in Whitesnake’s iconic music video for “Here I Go Again,” has died. She was 59-years-old. Variety reports that Kitaen died at her home in Newport Beach, CA yesterday, Friday, May 7. No cause of death has been revealed. Kitaen’s music video debut came

Official press release: Fans who missed symphonic extreme metal masters Chthonic triumphant return to the stage to headline Taiwan’s massive Megaport Festival in March will have the opportunity to experience the show with the release of the Chthonic Megaport 2021 live album and video on May 19.  Chthonic Megaport 2021 will be available digitally and as a special limited

Metallica frontman James Hetfield has expressed skepticism regarding the safety and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccine. Furthermore, he says he himself may not get vaccinated unless required to in order to travel. Hetfield made the admission during an interview with The Fierce Life podcast. He also implied that his hesitancy stems from his upbringing as

GWAR have released a new acoustic version of their 2017 anthem, “I’ll Be Your Monster,” complete with a characteristically-entertaining music video. You can check it out below. The track will appear on The Disc With No Name, which GWAR will release as a limited edition 12″ picture disc on May 28 via Pit Records. The

Chris Cornell’s widow and children have reached an undisclosed settlement with Robert Koblin, the doctor who prescribed the highly addictive anti-anxiety medication Ativan to the late Soundgarden singer. In a lawsuit filed in November of 2018, the Cornell family — his widow, Vicky, and their two kids, Toni and Christopher — alleged that Dr. Koblin

People of color were actually pretty tolerant of the United States’ intolerance until the United States elected a white supremacist to be its president. That broke the social contract. Suddenly someone was like “Hey maybe the least we can do is ask the cops to stop innocently killing Black people?” and half the country was

Anthrax have released the second episode of their Anthrax 40 for 40 video series, which will celebrate 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 18 (the band’s actual 40th anniversary). Each album will get

Cannibal Corpse’s new album, Violence Unimagined, has been greeted warmly by fans, delivering precisely the dose of unfiltered, gruesome death metal we so sorely needed. It’s also been quite a boon to the metal press, with money quotes about frontman George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher’s gargantuan neck and his propensity for claw arcade machines propping us up

Just about a year ago, Shadows Fall frontman Brian Fair revealed that the band had been trying to put together some reunion shows… before the pandemic came along and derailed those plans. Fortunately, the time past doesn’t appear to have made the band change their mind about wanting to play together again. In a new

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 May are in — including over 40

Dumbshit MVP Ted Nugent performed a maskless, indoor concert three days after he started experiencing “flu-like symptoms.” Those symptoms, of course, turned out to be the result of COVID-19. The Naples Daily News reports that Nugent played at Oakes Farms – Seed to Table Market in Naples, Florida on April 12. That establishment’s owner, Alfie Oakes,

Big week for fans of Tomas Lindberg Redant, f.k.a. Tomas Lindberg: a whopping four days after At the Gates released “Spectre of Extinction,” the first single from their new album The Nightmare of Being, Lock Up have now released “Inside Cthulu’s Eye,” the first single from their new album, which doesn’t have a title yet.

Perturbator has released “Excess,” the latest single from his forthcoming album, Lustful Sacraments. The track first surfaced as a standalone single in 2019 but has been re-released now as part of the new album rollout campaign. Joining the two singles released from the new album so far — “Dethroned Under a Funeral Haze” and “Death

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 Heart’s classic rocker “Barracuda” along with the masked special guest, Sidney Jake,

Nobody’s ever heard of Dig the Grave before. Still, the band wanted to make sure that people would watch their new video… so they used Cameo to hire a whole bunch of famous metal musicians to make them clips, which they then compiled into the video. And voilà! Now we’re all going to watch this