Every now and again, I’m presented with an album by someone I’ve heard of my whole life but never really gave any time to. Paul Gilbert is one such case and after listening to Werewolves of Portland I’m completely baffled as to why! This [...]
This is it, one of the most anticipated releases (if not the most) of 2021 is here. Having practically invented power metal, Hamburg’s Helloween is one of metal’s most fun and entertaining bands until today, so every release gets a lot of love [...]
As long as we draw breath, we should stay curious and keep exploring. Fear Factory are well versed in this philosophy. Recognized innovators pioneering what would eventually become industrial metal, the band has remained relevant for the past thirty [...]
If your heart aches for the agonizing beauty of melodic death metal, then smile and rejoice. The Absence are about to unveil their new album Coffinized on M-Theory Audio. After listening to this album, you’ll be able to easily place it next to such [...]
Before their hiatus, Dutch death metal stalwarts Pestilence released four influential albums of high quality and established themselves as a classic. Starting off with the more thrash-y death metal style, Pestilence moved on to a more technical and [...]
Flotsam and jetsam the marine debris is defined as “useless or discarded objects.” Plagued by a series of bad breaks including label problems and dubious production choices, Flotsam and Jetsam the band have fought hard to break the chain and [...]
“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of [...]
‘The First Damned’ is an almost ironically named compilation by Polish technical death groove metal stalwarts Decapitated. This compilation is ironically named as it is not the first version of The First Damned, first released in 2000 under [...]
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 [...]
Dead Label drummer Claire Percival recently sat down with Metal Wani’s Carl Rourke for an in-depth conversation across a wide variety of topics. The two discussed how Dead Label have used the time not being able to tour for over a year, the [...]
Simone Simons, the vocalist for symphonic metal titans, Epica, recently sat down with Metal Wani’s Carl O’Rourke to discuss the band’s newly released and highly acclaimed album ‘Omega’. Simone also spoke in-depth about [...]
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 [...]
2001. Nu-metal is sowing deep roots as a major sub-genre, its audience expanding at an unprecedented rate. Korn, Limp Bizkit, and Linkin Park lead the charge, and for a moment ‘Iowa’ by Slipknot seems like the only alternative to this [...]
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 Collingwood with [...]
If you ever needed more proof that hell can freeze over once in a while, Staind can provide it. In 2019, the multi-platinum metal sellers reunited for a comeback performance at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, making it a hometown affair. The [...]
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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