We sometimes forget that our musical heroes are also fans. It is a special treat when a band or musician you admire takes the time to share the music which inspired them. Dick Clark said, “Music is the soundtrack of our lives”. On Inspirations [...]
On January 22, 2021, Brazilian thrash-death metal band Nervosa will release their fourth album called Perpetual Chaos. This title is apt given the hell of a year we have endured in 2020 with more chaos surely to follow in 2021. Nervosa have recorded a [...]
Listening to Punching The Sky by Armored Saint brings a life-affirming feeling of joy. It is as if the band has written an album that embodies this quote from Charles Bukowski: “We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death [...]
This year of plague has taxed even the heartiest of metal heads. A year without our usual fix of moshing and headbanging with our metal family, makes a bleak world that much more desolate. Thankfully the metal gods provide with new music seeping up from [...]
On October 23, we get an early Halloween treat with the release of Order Of Magnitude: Empath Live Volume 1 from Devin Townsend via InsideOut Music. Fans will have a variety of formats to choose from including 2CD/DVD Digipak, 3LP/2CD box-set, and [...]
Just when the world needs a lift the most, Armored Saint is here to deliver us with their new album Punching The Sky which comes out on October 23 via Metal Blade. Bassist and songwriter Joey Vera was kind enough to share a few minutes with us. We [...]
Henry David Thoreau wrote “When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.” While Thoreau is an a*shat, he gets it about the power of music. When listening to Throes [...]
Perhaps it is the power of the riffs that makes me think of the movie Conan the Barbarian when I listen to Iron Mountain by Bonehawk. Conan’s father says “The secret of steel has always carried with it a mystery. You must learn its riddle, [...]
