There is a tragic beauty in sorrow and grief, and all stories ultimately end in both. Neither can be avoided, all that can be done is to come to grips with them and find your way through life. There is beauty because there is beauty in life and its [...]
Cattle Decapitation are no longer a fringe deathgrind band with shock-value imagery and lyrics to hammer down their message. They have venerated giants in the technical/death metal scene and are looked at as dependable titans belting out records of the [...]
Blood Incantation’s ascension is definitely warranted and deserved. Picking up influences from bands like Timeghoul and Demilich and molding it into a unique sound of its own, Blood Incantation explores themes of sci-fi and cosmology to create an [...]
Filling the gap between album releases, Prong has bestowed upon us a new EP entitled ‘Age of Defiance’ to feed the need for continuity. Featuring two new studio tracks and three live recordings, the band covers the bases from classic Prong to [...]
Three years between records is quite the industry standard, but for listeners and fans of Despised Icon still reeling from their long hiatus before 2016’s Beast, Purgatory comes as a welcome sign that the Canadian deathcore vets may be here to stay. [...]
Sweden’s The Flower Kings have been one of the forerunners, and among the most active bands in the modern progressive rock scene since the mid-90s. Lead by guitarist/vocalist and primary composer and lyricist Roine Stolt, they are one of the bands [...]
The majority of extreme metal bands do not break the ten album mark and Novembers Doom, the American Death/Doom metal veterans, are not one of them. The Chicago based band is one of the oldest and longest-running bands of the style and they have made a [...]
I’ll admit up front that I am in general not a huge fan of the technical death metal sub genre. Yes it is fast, and highly complex, all of which I appreciate. Inevitably I get bored with it after about three songs. There is, however, a monumental [...]
Metal Wani’s Chuck Marshall spoke to K.K. Downing about the upcoming show as well as his own memoir and plans for the future. I asked K.K. what could fan expect from this special event. K.K. mentioned “It’s a full-blown Priest [...]
Alice in Chains singer William DuVall is releasing his first-ever solo album, ‘One Alone’ which arrives on October 4th. Metal Wani’s Jessie David had a chance to discuss the upcoming album, the writing and thought process, [...]
Metal Wani’s Carl Rourke sat down with Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge and Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators to talk about the new AB record ‘Walk The Sky’, the new Alter Bridge sound, whether he would consider [...]
Metal Wani‘s Carl Rourke recently sat down with Opeth frontman and mastermind Mikael Akerfeldt to talk about the band’s upcoming new album ‘In Cauda Venenum’, releasing the album in both English and Swedish, his [...]
The new Sacred Reich album called Awakening is coming out on August 23rd on Metal Blade Records. It is a great feeling to say “Sacred Reich’s new album” as it has been 23 years since we have we’ve had new Sacred Reich music [...]
KXM’s new album called Circle Of Dolls is coming out on September 13th via the Rat Pak records. We had a chance to chat with guitar maestro and all-around awesome human, George Lynch about the new album. As with their last album Scatterbrain, [...]
On a cold winters night in Dublin, Cristina Scabbia clutches her microphone and sings “Tonight it’s going down,” in front of a sold-out crowd in The Academy. It’s an evening when these words feel more appropriate than ever. In [...]
An evening with Machine Head became a Heavy Metal marathon as the metal titans shook Dublin’s Olympia on the closing night of their ‘Burn My Eyes 25th Anniversary Tour’. An evening that has been proudly recognized by the band [...]
Battered but well-slept after the almost torturous day 2, I was ready to rock my entire list of bands for the final day. I first headed to the front row to check out promising prog/math rock band called The Physics House Band, a unique and [...]
Bad weather was not an issue in Sacramento over the weekend, and it had well been over a month or even more possible since any amount of precipitation had fallen on Discovery Park, and by now masks or anything to cover your mouth and nose were a hot item. [...]
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 [...]
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 2019 edition of Stonedeaf Festival in Newark, UK, featured some amazing performances by Glenn Hughes, Inglorious, Wayward Sons and others! Here are some of the best moments from the day:
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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