Consisting of  both current and former members of Alter Bridge/Creed (drummer Scott Phillips), Sevendust (John Connolly and Vinnie Hornsby) and Submersed/Tremonti (guitarist Eric Friedman), American rock supergroup Projected are set to release their [...]

With a star studded lineup of Matt Olivo (Repulsion), Matt Harvey (Exhumed), Danny Walker (Intronaut) and Menno Verbaten (Lightning Swords of Death) joining forces and spawning a monster called Expulsion, there is not much you can do but meekly submit [...]

Evolution in a band’s sound is something that is always interesting to hear – especially in the many sub-genres of metal. Bands like Bring Me the Horizon, Suicide Silence, Cattle Decapitation and more have all undergone significant changes in their [...]

Cleveland-based hardcore punk/metallic hardcore legends Integrity return in 2017 with a new album entitled ‘Howling, for the Nightmare Shall Consume’: their latest following the release of ‘Suicide Black Snake’ four years ago in 2013. With the band [...]

Alternative metal bands are a rare species; Prong is still a hungry beast that makes music to rip your ears off with its deafening riffs. The New York City outfit are known for melting music genres as their creative formula, they’ve been making innovative [...]

England’s The Tangent are back with their first album since 2015 titled ‘The Slow Rust of Forgotten Machinery’ and it drops on July 21st. The band has been active in the modern progressive rock community since their first album in 2003 and are led by [...]

Aborted have enjoyed a seemingly meteoric rise in popularity in recent years. Though the band are veterans in the death metal scene, with their earliest demos dating back to the late ’90s, since their seventh offering, ‘Global Flatline’, [...]

Usually when bands take long breaks between albums, the results are mixed. There are instances where the artist comes back with a strong album; on the other side of the spectrum you see an artist doing the same thing they were in the last album only to [...]

Day two of Hellfest Open Air 2017 had arrived, and the name was apt: it’s hotter than hell. At 36C (98F for those if you’re in the United States) it’s no surprise that all the sun hats had sold out at the merch stands and what was once grass and mud had [...]

Sunday night shows are always hit and miss. On one hand certain bands can pull any night of the week, but on the other hand there is a large contingent of people that won’t head out due to their earlier start the following morning. Luckily, faithful fans [...]

It has been truly said that “art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable”. What is that one artist or a band that you would consider an embodiment of this fact? Who would have created something as thought-provoking in ways that no one [...]

Hellfest has grown incredibly fast. When it first opened its gates in 2006 it attracted a respectable 22,000 odd metalheads.  Eleven years later well over 100,000 metal fans descended on the small town of Clisson in Western France, lured in by some of the [...]

  On June 23rd, 2017, The Token Lounge in Westland, Michigan was the next stop on Legendary Prog Metal masters FATES WARNING‘s ongoing US tour. Here are some of the epic moments of the evening:

  Sunday night shows are always hit and miss. On one hand certain bands can pull any night of the week, but on the other hand there is a large contingent of people that won’t head out due to their earlier start the following morning. Luckily, [...]

  On June 10th, 2017, The Token Lounge in Westland, Michigan was the next stop on September Mourning‘s ongoing US tour. Here are some of the epic moments of the evening:

  Voivod’s latest EP Post Society was the band bringing back their technical and dissonant sound, and UK fans deserved a tour celebrating the release of the EP. I was able to catch them at London’s favorite metal venue, Underworld. Voivod was joined [...]

  US powerviolence outfit NAILS have been added to this year’s jaw-dropping Damnation Festival line-up. The grind quartet will subject the Terrorizer Stage to a live onslaught alongside the likes of Dying Fetus, Agoraphobic Nosebleed and Psycroptic. [...]

  Extreme times demand extreme responses. Australian and New Zealand metal fans, you are about to be vehemently seized by the throat! After hugely successful runs in the USA and Europe, the intemperate NAPALM DEATH, BRUJERIA and LOCKUP gang are [...]

  Performance times have been announced for the 40-plus bands playing the second annual Chicago Open Air festival, July 14, 15 and 16 at Toyota Park in Bridgeview, IL, just outside Chicago. The Chicago Open Air music lineup leads off with a rare U.S. [...]

  Only 8 Months until Round 8 of 70000TONS OF METAL, The Original, The World’s Biggest Heavy Metal Cruise! Your ultimate Heavy Metal vacation will set sail on board the Independence of the Seas, leaving from Port Everglades, FL on Thursday, February [...]