The new album from Converge is so good that it would be wise for any other metal band planning to release new material in 2012 to hold off until next year. All We Love We Leave Behind, Converge’s eighth full length, is the kind of album that …
I’ll be honest, I’ve heard of The Birthday Massacre but had never heard them before Hide And Seek (Their fifth album). The loser in this equation is obviously me because the music that TBM make is meant to be consumed by as many people …
Norway’s Blood Command are determined to leave their mark in the music world and with songs like “Cult of the New Beat” off the upcoming Funeral Beach record, that’s not an unattainable goal.
It’s refreshing to hear bands like Battlecross and now Legacy Of Disorder putting out metal albums with absolutely no gimmicks. They’re the kinds of albums that are pure thrash and all about the metal. On their latest, Last Man Standing…
Devin Townsend definitely got the name right when brainstorming for his latest because “epic” and “loud” are definitely the best words to describe Epicloud. Yes, the hardest working man in metal and hard rock is back followi…
Marilyn Manson has officially been dethroned as the king of shock thanks to Wes Borland, Agata Alexander, and Black Light Burns newest video. The first “official” single/video from the recently released The Moment You Realize You&…
At first glance, it’s as if Peter Gabriel’s “Shock The Monkey” has been reborn in the 21st Century. Upon closer look however, you’ll see that the video for The Kinected’s “Hypnotize” is so much more …
Two great tastes that taste great together. Obviously I’m talking about the UK’s earthtone9 covering Entombed’s “Wolverine Blues”. For those of you not already aware, the mighty earthtone9 have returned and are set to…
Meshuggah better watch their collective backs because a whole new breed of technical metal is out to get them. The latest djent worshipers to spring up is the UK’s Monuments with their Century Media debut, Gnosis. Labelmates Stealing Axion (R…
While Trespass America might be winding down, many of the bands on the bill are gearing up for more tours and new albums once the the tour ends on August 28th. One of those bands with a new album in the works is Florida’s Trivium, whose untitl…
It’s always a cause for celebration when Converge announce a new album and even more so with the year the Boston old school heavy scene is having (Guitarist Nate Newton’s Old Man Gloom returning, Caleb Scofield’s Zozobra due soon,…
We’ve been talking a lot about UK’s The Fades throughout 2012 and the payoff is finally here as their first proper album, Ragnarok, is finally released. Soon. It’s not out yet. But we’ve heard it, and it’s killer. Sound…
With Meshuggah coming up short on their latest outing, a new breed has come to capture the throne. Two of those bands, Stealing Axion and Monuments (More on them later), happen to be labelmates residing on Century Media. If you like your metal long…
Alain Johannes deserves to be in the spotlight after stints in the background with QOTSA, Them Crooked Vultures, and Chris Cornell. His latest single, “Not Of This Earth” is likely to put him there permanently.
After listening to The Dark Tower-inspired Vexations by Chapel Hill, North Carolina’s I Was Totally Destroying It , I really wished I had read the Stephen King novels so I could enjoy this album even more than I already do. Don’t worry, …
Interpol’s Paul Banks has shed his Julian Plenti moniker and goes it alone on “The Base”, the first single from his forthcoming second solo album (Banks, due on October 23rd through Matador). “The Base” is a beautiful m…
If there is such a thing as 21st Century Nu-Metal then Sunflower Dead would have the market cornered. Definitely not a retread of the notorious genre by any means, Sunflower Dead take the best elements from nu-metal and add more groove and touches o…
