Tag Archives: Metal

For over 35 years, Killing Joke has constantly managed to reinvent their sound without losing their identity. Once a pivotal figure in the late 70s English post-punk underground, their influence later took on a life of its own, proving just as resonant with My Bloody Valentine as it was with …

South Florida has a very explosive up and coming music scene. One of the local favorites is Daybreak Embrace.  Coming together they have formed an amazing, well rounded sound that will kick you in the teeth. Everything you want in a Metal / Hard Rock band. They started in the …

Spanish blackened death extremists NOCTEM will soon command audiences once more with “music of fury, fire and war” (No Clean Singing), as the band will soon enter the studio to record their fourth album, expected to be released in the spring. The band’s 2014 effort, “Exilium,” their debut release with …

Children of Bodom is one of the prototypical bands of the Finnish extreme metal collective. Formed in 1993, the band has long championed some of the distinct sounds of the region’s more extreme musical side. Despite some moderate shifts in tone over their career, as well as the loss of …

Wrapping paper won’t be the only thing being shredded this holiday season, as the Los Angeles-based powerhouse HOLY GRAIL have announced a series of headlining tour dates in December featuring direct support from fellow West Coast metallians Night Demon! The quintet will round out the tour by joining thrash legends Death …

A tesseract, in mathematics, is a three-dimensional representation of a four-dimensional object, often used by physicists to illustrate the concept of higher planes of existence than our own. It is fitting, then, that the band Tesseract acts as our aptly-titled progressive metal guide into unknown realms of musical experience. When …

A band really hitting their stride in recent months is Five Hundredth Year, from Michigan. The band fuses together metal, hard rock and pop to create songs that have the ability to teach and be stuck in your head for days. The six-member band recently just finished and released their …

2015 HardDrive Live Tour The Culture Room, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 9/9/15 The Culture Room is a great venue that’s large enough to hold a decent sized crowd but intimate enough where you feel like you’re part of the show. Wilson opened the concert with a mix of heavy riffs and …

Not all stones are stationary: Hypermass may recall images of huge monoliths, but these structures have speed! From the far-flung climes of Trondheim, Norway, Hypermass are a genre-melding extreme metal band whose goal is to draw upon the melody of death, black and thrash metal, and occasionally throw in some …