So, today’s lead album is by Black Sabbath. It’s the first album of original Sabbath tunes in eighteen years. Given that fact, I’m just going to shut the intro off and start talking about what matters most today. Black Sabbath, 13 (Universal Republic) Ozzy Osbourne has not appeared on a Black Sabbath record [...]
Thursday, March 22, 2012
How does an Australian wind up running the American arm of influential UK metal label Earache? It’s kind of a long story, but Al Dawson was more than happy to oblige. Starting out as a tape trader in the ’80s (he was thanked on a 1984 compilation by Pushead), he eventually visited the UK, where [...]
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. Out of the five hard rock/metal releases to debut on the charts this week, the top release comes from alt rock legends Jane’s Addiction. Though their fourth studio album The Great Escape Artist (really, it’s only [...]
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
The story of Matt Barlow is a rare one in the world of heavy metal. The former Iced Earth singer left the band not once, but twice, and despite that, his sterling reputation with fans and within the metal community has remained consistent. Barlow has never been known for his ego or for inciting drama. [...]
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Today, September 27, is a day that most metal fans, if not the entire metal community, have been waiting for all year long: the release of Machine Head’s Unto The Locust. It’s always a challenge for bands to follow up any album, let alone a record as massive and widely acclaimed as 2007’s The Blackening. [...]
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Late last year, Earache Records launched “Into the Pit,” a digital-only series of live albums by the likes of At the Gates, Napalm Death, Evile, Deicide, and many more. The iTunes-exclusive albums can be found here. Tweet
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Evile guitarist Ol Drake has posted video of him showing how to play the song “Time No More” online. Tweet
Monday, May 3, 2010
Dates to the second leg of Overkill’s Killfest 2010 tour, also featuring Forbidden, Evile, Gamma Bomb and Bounded By Blood, have been revealed. Tweet
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Evile has made their cover of Pantera’s “Cemetary Gates” available for download via iTunes. Tweet
Friday, December 18, 2009
Evile has announced Joel Graham as their new bassist, who will be stepping in after the passing of their original bassist Mike Alexander. Tweet
Megadeth has added two dates in New York City to Gigantour this summer, bringing the touring festival to the Hammerstein Ballroom on August 6 and 7.
As They Burn has premiered a new video of them performing the song “Medicine 2.0″.
Battlecross has premiered a new song called “Flesh & Bone” with Metal Sucks. The song appears on the band’s new album, War Of Will, due out on July 9 via Metal Blade Records.
letlive. are streaming their new album, and first for Epitaph, The Blackest Beauty. The album is set to be released on July 9th, but you can check it out in full here.
Chimaira has announced dates for a U.S. headlining tour in support of it’s forthcoming album, Crown Of Phantoms. Support on the trek will come from Threat Signal, The Browning and Dark Sermon.
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