The cancer diagnosis of My Dying Bride’s vocalist Aaron Stanthorpe’s daughter in 2017 looms heavy on ‘The Ghost of Orion’. After a lengthy break, Stanthorpe posted a heartfelt message on the band’s Facebook page updating fans [...]
Dark Fortress has always been an interesting band for me personally. Their dark ambient sounds coupled with massive heavy riff work, screeching leads in their past repertoire, an overtone of the black metal aesthetic in their musicality and hard hitting [...]
Despite having been active for three decades, most will still do a double take upon hearing that rapper Ice-T not only enjoys hard rock and heavy metal, but also fronts his own band of the same style. Body Count came as a surprise [...]
Beneath the Massacre are back baby! After a far-too-long eight year gap following 2012’s gargantuan Incongrous, the Canadian technical death mainstays are back with Fearmonger. While the band itself was dormant, the genre had moved on with new [...]
When you think of deathgrind, four bands lead the pack by a mile, Belgium’s genre firebrands Aborted, Californian vegan demigods Cattle Decapitation, Maryland’s politically charged Misery Index, and the perverts in France’s very own [...]
Brooklyn’s extreme metal band Tombs come back with their fifth full length installation in their 13th year of existence, and this time with an overhaul of their line-up around Michael Hill. I have always preferred Tombs to have the black metal only [...]
Swiss all woman heavy metal group ‘Burning Witches’ have been making waves in the world of metal music for all the right reasons. Their self-titled debut album and 2018’s Hexenhammer established these ladies as seasoned musicians with [...]
Release a new album, tour said album, film and release a new DVD of said tour. Repeat. This has been the pattern as of late for Neal Morse and The Neal Morse Band. And it is something I most certainly am not complaining about. I am perhaps making light of [...]
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, [...]
Dublin’s Voodoo Lounge has played host to more than a few memorable nights. Such as the night thrash metal legends, Sacred Reich, returned to the Emerald Isle in support of their first album in over twenty years’ Awakening’. A night [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
