Metal

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

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

The ten year wait is finally over: Times of Grace, the band featuring Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leach and Adam Dutkiewicz, have released their sophomore album, Songs of Loss and Separation. And, as is often the case in the age of streaming, the band has unveiled a new music video to go along with the album

Metallica were sad that they sometimes have to share the Metal Internet’s spotlight with Tool and Slipknot. How to ensure that all is Metallica and Metallica is all? “I know!” said someone with a coveted spot on Metallica’s group text thread. “For the thirtieth anniversary of The Black Album, we’ll release 1-15 pieces of material

We spent the week thinking we were getting a new Iron Maiden song called “Belshazzar’s Feast” as the prelude to a new Iron Maiden album, Writing On the Wall. We were half-right! The band has just released a new song called “Writing On the Wall”… but there’s no word on a new album. That’s a

You ever get in a Lyft really late at night, and the driver is blasting some terrible music from his radio like he thinks he’s driving a goddamn nightclub, but you’re too polite to ask him to turn it off, so you just stick your earbuds in and hope your music is louder than his?

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

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

In Flames have been forced to drop off the highly-anticipated upcoming tour featuring Megadeth, Lamb of God, and Trivium “in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic” — which we can safely interpret to mean that the band weren’t gonna be able to travel to the U.S. from their native Sweden (they were they only non-American

…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

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

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

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]

Iron Maiden have released a new video in which singer Bruce Dickinson, wearing a shirt for “Belshazzar’s Feast,” invites fans to that very event: “July the fifteenth. Rain or shine, heaven or hell, man or beast, you’re invited to Belshazzar’s Feast. But your mum can’t come!” The video all but confirms rumors that the legendary NWOBHM

Guns N’ Roses have released another entry in their Not in This Lifetime Selects video series, which highlights various performances from the band’s tour reuniting lead singer Axl Rose with fellow original members Slash (guitar) and Duff McKagan (bass). The footage was captured during the band’s tour of Latin America in late 2016, and includes a performance of

After already once postponing their tour together from its original timeframe in 2020, Deftones and Gojira have again pushed back the run, which had been rescheduled for August and September of this year, this time to April and May 2022. Poppy will no longer be the opening act. Deftones, in a statement posted to social

Gost has released a third song from his forthcoming album, Rites of Love and Reverence, titled “Bound by the Horror.” Gost fans have likely noticed his recent shift away from the horror-inspired synthwave of his earlier work, and that’s exactly what this new song is about. He comments:  “’Bound by the Horror’ started the writing process

Dave Mustaine has raised his price on Cameo AGAIN. As of this writing, his fee on the platform — which lets fans purchase personalized video messages from celebrities — is up to $350 a pop. That’s a $50 increase from just a few days ago, and the fourth increase overall in the six days since

“(Si Vis Pacem) Parabellum” is the best kind of Yngwie Malmsteen song: an instrumental one. Freed from the constraints of vocals, Yngwie is able to transcend his worst instincts (i.e., to make cheesy European power metal) and just shred his ass off for nearly six glorious minutes. If you’ve ever thought “Yngwie is a buffoon,

Stance, who in this blogger’s opinion make just about the most comfortable socks on the market right now, have just announced two new Guns N’ Roses-themed designs. One pair has been dubbed ‘Appetite’ because it features the cover art from Appetite for Destruction; the other pair are called ‘So Fine’ because… uh… they say ‘So