Sludge merchants Black Tusk and Dead Yet? recently released a split where they had a little fun. They covered each other's songs' Black Tusk covered 'Fearing Your Mind' while Dead Yet? covered 'Fac ...Read More »
Once again, this year's Inferno Festival in Norway featured top-notch headliners such as Suffocation, Saint Vitus and Satyricon. But one of my favorite headliner performances this year came from deat ...Read More »
They are one of the fastest rising bands on the UK hard rock and metal circuit. They are the Sheffield-based quintet called While She Sleeps, and they have just arrived in America for their very firs ...Read More »
Devil is a band that I was curious about when I first moved to Oslo. I would always see Stian Fossum (guitars) out and about and I was told he played in a really great doom rock band, Devil. The nam ...Read More »
If you were in Europe this past weekend, Inferno Festival 2013 was the place to be this Easter! Instead of spending a traditional Easter in California, I decided to go back to cold Oslo, Norway to see ...Read More »
Stone Sour is back and with a vengeance. Their new album, House of Gold & Bones Part Two arrives April 9 and it is the second installment of the group's House of Golden Bones two-part concept alb ...Read More »
Porcupine Tree brain trust Steven Wilson is considered a true artisan by fans of the progressive genre. His work in his band, his Storm Corrosion project with Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt and his solo ef ...Read More »
The name Darkthrone is synonymous with the Scandinavian black metal scene. But Fenriz, one-half of Darkthrone, has a different viewpoint of the genre as an entity and the band's place within it. As ...Read More »
“Back in the ‘90s, we thought AIDS was as bad as it was going to get, but things are so much more worse right now. I tell you what, as a parent of two young kids; Sandy Hook was absolutel ...Read More »
Mucky Pup singer Chris Milnes loves hot dogs. He doesn't just love them the same way you and I love them, I mean, he really loves them. The dude's passion for the tasty delicacy lead him to open The ...Read More »
If its title doesn't already hook you in, then just check out this description of the new animated web series, Majestic Loincloth: 'For lovers of heavy metal Viking rock opera homoerotic Medieval anim ...Read More »
There are a lot of crazy stories about David Lee Roth in both Van Halen and classic rock lore, but none are perhaps as insane as the fact that the frontman had his penis insured by Lloyd's of London. ...Read More »
“One of the things I love about playing in this band as that we get to do cool stuff like play house shows. It’s definitely bringing me back to my roots when I would book a tour using tha ...Read More »
The metal/hardcore scene in Australia continues to thrive thanks in large part the bands like Northlane, who recently wowed massive hometown crowds at the Soundwave Festival. They've just released a n ...Read More »
Bob Ezrin, the man behind the board for such classics as Pink Floyd's The Wall, KISS' Destroyer, and Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies and Welcome To My Nightmare, needed some convincing to produce ...Read More »