10 Metal Albums That Complicate The Case Of The Sophomore Slump
Another stellar year for heavy music has drawn to a close; we’ve published our Albums of the Year list, got our spreadsheets in order for 2024 and we’re ready to…
Read more » Oceans Of Slumber release new music video for ‘Poem Of Fire’
OCEANS OF SLUMBER have released a new music video! The new music video, for the track Poem Of Fire, is the brand new single from the Texas-based progressive metal band and marks…
Read more » Dying Wish: Born Survivors
Ask almost any metalcore aficionado who one of the best new bands in the scene are and there’s a good chance they’ll point you to DYING WISH. The Portland quintet…
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MIKKEY DEE Doesn’t Want To Take His MOTÖRHEAD ‘Tribute Thing’ On World Tour: ‘I Just Wanna Keep It A Show Here And There’
In a new interview with Sweden’s TellUs Rock, former MOTÖRHEAD drummer Mikkey Dee spoke about his recently completed run of shows under the “Mikkey Dee With Friends” banner where he performed some of the band’s classic songs. The 60-year-old Swedish-born musician, who has been a member of the SCORPI…
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Album Premiere: Dark Sky Burial – ‘Tantum Religio Potuit Suadere Malorum’
Shane Embury’s electronic ambient Dark Sky Burial has one final holiday present for you before we close the book on 2023.
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“So much music has been inspired by the sound of these little boxes. When BOSS released a new pedal, you simply had to try it out”: How BOSS pedals shaped guitar culture
Inspiring artists and gear designers alike, BOSS gear has shaped much of the last half-century of music. Here, we consider the company’s impact on guitar culture
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HEAVY MUSIC HISTORY: Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) – Wu-Tang Clan
1993 was a pivotal year in hip-hop, with a grittier style of rap from the East Coast, taking a stranglehold to the game, a style, lyrically and sonically, that was…
Read more » “This is going to sound really f**king strange”: Joe Bonamassa says his go-to BOSS dirt pedal is the Metal Zone – here’s why the blues ace rates the metal monster
The blues rock kingpin and gear obsessive places his faith in this heavy classic
Read more » How Jimi Hendrix’s groundbreaking techniques are still influencing the modern rock, blues and R&B styles of today’s players
This tab and video lesson details how Hendrix inspired the likes of Melanie Faye, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Marcus Machado, Ayla Tesler-Mabé, Joanne Shaw Taylor and Ayron Jones
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ALBUM REVIEW: Drakonian Elitism – Ofermod / Black Altar / Acherontas
OFERMOD, BLACK ALTAR and ACHERONTAS are all bands that have a long and confirmed legacy that places each of them at the heart of the modern black metal scene at…
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