Chris Daughtry has maintained a chart-topping career for almost two decades, achieving Gold and Platinum status across multiple songs and albums. Though it could be argued that the singer’s most impressive achievement was breaking free of the curse [...]
Thrash metal is always a madly thrilling experience. No reservations; only fun and madness. Paradox is very well known for its groove-laden and melody brimming take on thrash metal. The band’s latest and eighth offering ‘Heresy II End Of A [...]
Even the most diehard fans of a particular subgenre can get swamped with the sheer amount of new content being put out throughout the year. Add other subgenres and genres and a consumer is bogged down by a fatigue of abundance. A direct consequence of [...]
At this stage in the game, it’s very easy to see Insomnium going down in the annals of melodic death metal history. As a consistent contributor over the past two decades, the Finnish quartet have transformed into a powerhouse of Finnish melancholy [...]
Every piece of music is composed of the same range of notes. Yet there are infinite arrangements of those notes, leaving so much more to discover and find resonance in, for artists to create the songs and melodies that disarm us. Allowing for that space [...]
When I was in my big power metal phase – which was from 1999-ish until…well, today – I remember picking up Rage’s ‘End of All Days’ album and completely being blown away by the unique, Teutonic way of turning the [...]
Music is used for many things, to hype you up, lift you up, fit your mood, or simply be a distraction from normal life. Or it can be used to help you relax, and sit back, and that is the category that I find Tuesday The Sky, and the new album ‘The [...]
What’s the HOTTEST thing happening right now in the metal industry? It’s what I like to call “ETHNIC METAL” defined by artists that bring their cultural heritage to the forefront of their music. Ethnic Metal bands are popping up on [...]
Dee Snider is an undeniable icon and living legend of heavy metal. With a history fronting such bands as Twisted Sister, Widowmaker as well as establishing a transformative and thriving solo career, it isn’t hard to see why. But Snider has [...]
The Call of the Wild beckons! Okay well, actually it was the call from Napalm Records to let me know that Falk Maria Schlegel, Keyboardist of German power metal pack Powerwolf was on the line ready to chew my ear off. Thankfully they meant with [...]
Gojira have for a while now been at the forefront of the more extreme end of technical and progressive metal. As a follow-up to the much-lauded ‘Magma,’ the band is personally in a better place than when they [...]
Myles Kennedy (Alter Bridge, Slash and the Conspirators, The Mayfield Four) recently caught up with Metal Wani’s Carl Rourke to talk about Kennedy’s upcoming, sophomore solo album, ‘The Ides of March’. The pair talked in [...]
Cannibal Corpse is a name synonymous with death metal. There’s little doubt that the band is one of the most recognized on the planet for the genre, having been around for over three decades. Ahead of the release of their 15th studio album [...]
Jordan Rudess, the keyboard player for prog-legends Dream Theater, sat down with Metal Wani’s Carl Rourke to discuss reforming Liquid Tension Experiment and releasing the band’s first album in twenty-two years. The pair also talked [...]
With the festival’s last day rolling around, it’s unsurprising that energy levels seem to be dipping a little. There are almost as many people sitting in camp chairs and nursing a coffee or the infamous hair of the dog brew as there are inside [...]
As Saturday dawns on day two of the Download Festival Pilot, the ever-present rain seems to have finally eased up. Despite that, it’s going to be a struggle for many of the ten thousand fans to make it down to the arena after a long night of [...]
With last year’s Download Festival cancelled due to Coronavirus, it’s been two years since the hallowed ground of Donnington has been graced by an assault of blast beats, monstrous riffs, and the stomping feet of rock and metal’s [...]
An image flickers on the screen, the burning insignia of the Order of the Dragon to the backdrop of “At the Gates of Midian”. This could not have been a more enthralling setup for the recent Cradle of Filth Livestream and as a long-time fan, I [...]
The Melbourne music scene has incubated over the past year and what’s been churning out has been nothing less than magnificent! A cross-section of this talent pool was on show this past Friday night at the legendary Bendigo Hotel in [...]
The wonderful thing about the Melbourne music scene is its resilience to things like a silly little worldwide pandemic. From what I observed last night, it was like one never occurred. Many friends and varied groups had come together to have a good [...]
The largest music festival in California came to the city of Sacramento and 97,500 Hard Rock and Metal music fans from all over the country poured into Discovery Park October 11-13 to attend the 8th annual Aftershock Festival. And it just happened [...]
The largest music festival in California came to the city of Sacramento and 97,500 Hard Rock and Metal music fans from all over the country poured into Discovery Park October 11-13 to attend the 8th annual Aftershock Festival. And it just happened [...]
Download Festival, the world’s premier rock event, has announced IRON MAIDEN, KISS and SYSTEM OF A DOWN as its 2020 headliners. They also added Deftones, Korn, The Offspring, Disturbed and [...]
With just two months to go until the return of Aftershock at Sacramento’s Discovery Park, festival producers Danny Wimmer Presents have announced additional onsite entertainment and unique food offerings for the [...]
Two-time Grammy-nominated and millions-selling progressive music titans Dream Theater are currently in the middle of a successful European tour. With three weeks left on that run, the band is turning its attention back to North America with the [...]
Metalhead Meeting: Slayer will be playing their last show from the career in Bucharest-Romania on July 10th at Arenele Romane. It’s an interesting event as they are also celebrating 15 years of Metalhead Romania. Slayer has [...]
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