Going to see a gig for a band you’re not overly familiar with is a bit of a stressful experience at the best of times. It’s exacerbated exponentially when the group in question have somewhat mixed reviews. Hollywood Undead is one such band. The Californian rap rock five piece have …
Read More »Aftershock 2019 Expands To Three Days With Massive Lineup Featuring Tool, Slipknot, blink-182, Korn, Rob Zombie, Staind, Bring Me The Horizon, A Day To Remember, Marilyn Manson, Lamb of God, Halestorm, Chevelle & Many More
Aftershock 2019 Expands To Three Days With Massive Lineup Featuring Tool, Slipknot, blink-182, Korn, Rob Zombie, Staind, Bring Me The Horizon, A Day To Remember, Marilyn Manson, Lamb of God, Halestorm, Chevelle & Many More Plus Special Onsite Collaboration With Metallica’s Blackened Whiskey & Enter Night Pilsner California’s …
Read More »Gallery: Metal Allegiance at The Belasco Theater in Los Angeles (04.18.19)
Gallery: Superfix at The Belasco Theater in Los Angeles (04.18.19)
Witherfall talk influences, Adam Paul Sagan, ‘Vintage’ EP
California’s Witherfall has established themselves as a masterfully enduring force of modern prog metal. Based in Los Angeles, the quartet’s somber lyrical perspective and melodic emphasis ring especially poignant in their half-a-decade career. Their first two full-length releases – 2017’s self-released Nocturnes and Requiems and 2018’s Century Media Records effort …
Read More »Album Review: Snake Bite Whisky – This Side of Hell
Snake Bite Whisky are an Australian outfit who channel 80s-inspired decadence, hook-laden songwriting, and most importantly, genuine rock n’ roll spirit. Formed in December 2014, the Brisbane quartet soon experienced success on an international level. Their first two self-releases – Two Steps to Oblivion and Dirty, both buzzing in 2016 …
Read More »Interview: Keith Douglas of Tora Tora
Back in 1989, Tennessee quartet Tora Tora utilized what would become their signature southern-tinged blend of glam metal on their A&M Records debut, Surprise Attack. Amidst a gradually shifting musical climate, the album still managed to crack the Billboard Top 50 with such hits as “Walkin’ Shoes” (the first Memphis-based …
Read More »VARNA Release Lyric Video for “The Craving”
Los Angeles Hard Rock Band VARNA has released the lyric video for their single, “The Craving.” “We are extremely proud to release such high driven female powered beast as ‘The Craving’ for 2019. This song about the push and pull of primal emotions you have instantly with someone–that carnal desire–but it never …
Read More »Hard, Heavy, Experimental & Weird – Top 10 Albums Of 2018
1. Toby Driver – They Are The Shield (Blood Music) Toby Driver is the mastermind of maudlin Of The Well and Kayo Dot, US avant-garde metal bands and “They Are The Shield” is his third solo album in thirteen years. Known for his unconventional writing, this album is based …
Read More »MIDNITE HELLION to Join OTEP on Select Dates of THE ART OF DISSENT TOUR!
Trenton, NJ based Heavy Metal band MIDNITE HELLION have announced that they will be joining OTEP. The trio will be joining the tour on December 18 at Spicoli’s Reverb – Live Music and Bar Arcade in Waterloo, IA and will continue through December 23 at Liquid Joe’s in Salt Lake City, UT. Midnite Hellion will also be …
Read More »Gallery: Entheos, The Summer Slaughter Tour 2018, at The UC Theatre in Berkeley, CA on 08/10/2018
QUOR Release Official Lyric Video for “RAISING THE DEAD”
Heavy Rock band QUOR has released the official lyric video for “Raising The Dead,” off of their January 25th released EP, The Way We Are. The concept for the track came from a walk through a shallow burial ground in Ireland, “There was an impact left from the image of the bones laying …
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