A lazy, overcast Sunday evening was perhaps the perfect time to delve into the feels and get lost in the moments of the latest offering by homegrown post/prog-rock outfit Aswekeepsearching aptly titled ‘ROOH’. AWKS as a band is known to [...]
Equilibrium is a band that epitomizes the term ‘hard-working’. While folk metal has been burgeoning for the past decade with many bands seeing great success, Equilibrium has diligently labored hard in the background, slowly plying their trade [...]
The world is a better place with the resurrection of Sacred Reich on their new album called Awakening. Like a land left fallow, Sacred Reich have lain dormant for 23 years after the release of Heal in 1996. Awakening is the realization by the band that [...]
Let’s face it, Slipknot is important; love them or hate them, they are synonymous with metal for people not familiar with the genre and its zillion sub and microgenres. We are all kidding ourselves if we don’t know at least three people that [...]
If there is anything prog fans are familiar with, it’s musicians doing side projects and supergroups. And there are none more well known for this than Mike Portnoy. Given his schedule and prodigious output, it is no surprise that yet another of his [...]
Hammerfall have always been a “to-go” band for me when I was a teenager. Back in 1997, ‘Glory to the Brave’ blew my socks off with strong songwriting, awesome atmosphere and a most welcomed back-to-the-roots attitude at the time. I [...]
Northlane is a band that was always on the fringe of my listening lists. I discovered them along with a bunch of other progressive metalcore/djent-metalcore bands like Volumes, Erra, Structures, Auras, Elitist and a whole host of mediocre ones who’s [...]
Killswitch Engage rips! Okay, now that the obvious has been stated and out of the way, Killswitch Engage has been among the hardest working and most consistently high value generating metalcore bands of our generation and have pumped out record after [...]
Ahead of the release of the band’s eighth studio album Atonement (Read our Review Here), Metal Wani had the chance to catch up with Killswitch Engage‘s Adam Dutkiewicz to talk all things Atonement, the band’s upcoming tour [...]
Metal Wani‘s Carl O’Rourke recently sat down Scott Stapp (Creed, Art of Anarchy) to talk about life, songwriting, as well as his latest solo endeavor, ‘The Space Between The Shadows’. Stapp is the voice behind [...]
Ahead of the release of their ninth full-length album ‘The Great War’, Metal-Wani’s Vidur Paliwal had a chance to spend a weekend with the band in Verdun and talk to the Sabaton’s bassist Pär Sundström about the [...]
Whitechapel make a welcome appearance at Download 2019 and we spoke with Alex Wade, Guitarist to talk about their latest release, touring and playing out live. On the success of their latest recording “The Valley”, he said: “The [...]
Hot off the tail with their latest release “When Legends Rise”, Metal Wani’s Adam Hayward sits down to talk to Shannon Larkin, drummer of Rock Titans Godsmack. On playing Download: “There’s a lot of great camaraderies [...]
Day three of Download and the aftermath of Halestorm’s performance on Saturday Night headlining the Zippo Encore Stage, Metal Wani managed to catch a few moments to talk to drummer Arejay Hale. On the latest release “Vicious” and [...]
With blisters on both feet and bodies screaming from head to toe, we decided early on that on this last day, we’d slow down some as we wanted to be able to visit the tattoo booths on the reformatory upper floor. So while the newly added Adrift [...]
After fueling up at a local Bob Evans, we set out, once again for day two at Ohio State Reformatory. Getting there early, before the gates opened, we decided to treat ourselves to a quick tour of the reformatory. It was pretty amazing to be [...]
The last day of the Rockharz festival started to see the last bands. For me personally, there wasn’t so much, but the amount of significantly higher numbers of day visitors showed that there was a lot of interest to enjoy this day with the campers [...]
The second day of the festival starts and there was a nice list of bands on my schedule. It started very early with the music-making goats from Milking the Goatmaschine. This groovy deathgrind band inspired a bigger crowd than I thought to enter the [...]
In short, whether you’re young or old, this festival has/had something for everyone! With just under 13,000 attending Friday and both Saturday and Sunday sold out (18,000 max.), INKCARCERATION FESTIVAL 2019 was a complete success. Well played [...]
With day two being completely sold out, it was no surprise that both stages had a great turn out, even this early in the day. Day Two was off to a great start! A perfect ending to a glorious mixture of musical talent, food, and a very [...]
The INKCARCERATION FESTIVAL (formerly Ink-in-the-Clink), is a three-day music festival like no other. The Ohio State Reformatory (1896-1990), stands as a unique backdrop to this one of a kind festival and was also home to the 1994 film [...]
After Knotfest Meets Hellfest and the first two days of Hellfest, you would expect the crowd to start feeling a bit sluggish. Even more so, given the high temperatures and the heatwave sweeping across Clisson. On the contrary, Sunday had the crowd [...]
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 [...]
After welcoming a sold-out crowd of 60,000 people in 2018, Aftershock returns even bigger this year, expanding to three full days of performances from some of the most popular music acts, including a mix of [...]
Wacken Open Air is keeping the Easter bunny busy by putting a wide range of musical eggs into the baskets of their fans. The largest metal festival on this planet has announced 53 new bands for its 30th-anniversary edition. Among established acts [...]
