You already know that we’re fans of ASG’s new album, Blood Drive. The band’s first album for Relapse (and fifth overall) expands on the band’s sound, equal parts Torche and Jane’s Addiction, to create an album that’s equal parts catchy and heavy, sunny and dark. We’re not the only ones that think so, as Pitchfork is [...]
Friday, May 31, 2013
Whether we realize it or not, music triggers something primal inside us. Music has the power to trigger a broad spectrum of emotions from ultimate bliss to complete depression. Sometimes the right music cuts even deeper and touches us at our most animalistic core. One listen to Wyoming’s Reproacher and you may feel a [...]
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Philadelphia obviously has a special place in John Baizley’s heart. The Baroness frontman’s first public performance since the horrific bus accident last year took place in the city of brotherly love last January, followed by an intimate set by Baizley and guitarist Peter Adams that same month. And this past Friday night (May 24), Baroness returned [...]
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
ASG’s fourth album, Blood Drive, isn’t necessarily a bold departure for the band, but that’s a good thing. The band’s first album for Relapse, due out on May 28 is a perfect blend of Torche-like major key stoner sludge and straight-forward rock that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Queens of the Stone Age album, [...]
Friday, May 17, 2013
It was the mid to late 90′s when commercial rock radio stations started to really drop the ball. As stoner rock started to explode out of the metal underground led by bands like Kyuss, Fu Manchu and Nebula, commercial radio, save for the very few brave enough, largely ignored some seriously awesome rock n’ roll. [...]
Monday, May 13, 2013
Baroness will be embarking on their first proper U.S. tour later this month since last year’s horrifying bus accident and with its new lineup. However, the band looks to be making up for lost time, as they’ve announced additional tour dates for later this month. This particular trek will find Baroness hitting major markets like [...]
Friday, May 10, 2013
Do you like riffs? Big, meaty, nasty, sludgy, riffs? Riffs that make you want to punch holes in random walls and possibly even faces? Then Italy’s Zolle might become one of your new favorite bands very quickly. Zolle are a two-piece outfit from the backwoods of Italy. (Who knew Italy had “backwoods” and “rednecks”?!? At [...]
Friday, April 19, 2013
Metal history is littered with stellar debuts. It’s also chock full of albums that were able to take multiple genres and merge them into a sort of rainbow coalition of extremity. But for a band to hit home runs on both fronts is a rare and unique feat for sure. Colorado’s Call Of The Void [...]
Friday, April 12, 2013
Richmond, Virginia is one of those places that consistently, yet quietly, produces some amazing bands. A visual list of all the artists that have emerged from the greater Richmond area over the last two decades would prove to be an impressive one on both the metal and punk circuits. So it should really come as [...]
Friday, April 5, 2013
Some bands attempt to secure the ‘old school’ label and the street cred that follows it with varying forms of metal mimicry. They are always easy to spot, usually because they are trying too hard to be something they are not. Then there are the bands that simply pick up their instruments, thrash away and [...]
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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