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 [...]

Having a soft spot for power metal, knowing that these guys were releasing a new effort this year made me really happy. After the monstrous ‘Ravenhead’ – best album of the genre in 2015 for me – it became clear that Sebastian “Seeb” Levermann (vocals, [...]

Vintersorg is a Swedish band from Skellefteå. They were formed in 1994 and are still going strong. While most of their sound traces its origins back to traditional black metal, they are known for blending in folk influences and melodic passages. [...]

It is hard to believe, but Decapitated are a band with a 21-year history, having formed back in 1996 and releasing their debut demo ‘Cemetarial Gardens’ in 1997. After a second demo, the band went on to record their legendary debut [...]

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 [...]

The alternative/psychedelic rock band Sólstafir from Iceland released their newest album, ‘Berdreyminn’ in May this year. With respect to the release, they toured in Europe and made a stop over in Hannover on Sunday the 18th of June 2017 at the [...]

During a brief span of clear weather, a collection of progressive metal fans gathered at Buffalo Iron Works in Buffalo NY to see the long awaited return of prog metal icons, Fates Warning. A special occasion for this audience member because 16 years ago, [...]

  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 [...]

  It was one hell of an evening at Metal Hammer’s Golden Gods Awards in London. An incredible night of alcohol, bands and all things metal. Cherish Some Of The EPIC Moments Of The Evening: Live Moments with AVATAR, & CLUTCH:  

  Concluding my first ever Rock On The Range experience, all I can honestly say is that this was a one-of-a-kind experience, with the most unique and diverse music genre North American has to offer.  It goes without saying that ROTR continues to live [...]

  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 [...]

  Swedish heavy prog alchemists OPETH have announced five more shows in addition to their previously announced Dublin & Belfast shows this winter. Full dates roll out as follows: Wed 15th Nov – MANCHESTER O2 Ritz Thu 16th Nov – [...]

  The highly-anticipated music lineup has been announced for Monster Energy Aftershock–California’s biggest rock festival–Saturday, October 21 and Sunday, October 22 at Discovery Park, near downtown Sacramento, CA. Nine Inch Nails, Ozzy [...]