ALBUM REVIEW: Live At Freak Valley Fest – The Atomic Bitchwax
Formed in Neptune, New Jersey in 1992, THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX have been an unstoppable force in the psychedelic and stoner scene for the last 30 years, having played over 1,500…
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Rotten Sound release new music video for ‘Renewables’
ROTTEN SOUND have released a new music video! The new music video, for the track Renewables, is taken from the Finnish grindcore band’s upcoming new album, Apocalypse, which is scheduled to be released…
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DevilDriver announce new album ‘Dealing With Demons Vol. II’
DEVILDRIVER have announced a new album! Titled Dealing With Demons Vol. II, the upcoming album from the American groove metal band is the follow-up to 2020’s Dealing With Demons Vol. I, and is…
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DEVILDRIVER To Release New Album, 'Dealing With Demons Vol. II', In May
As the world was upended in 2020, California groove metallers DEVILDRIVER didn’t pause, releasing the acclaimed first installment of their two-part “Dealing With Demons” saga, “Dealing With Demons I”. Now, as society emerges more hardened and determined than before, so does DEVILDRIVER’s tenth full-…
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IRON MAIDEN's STEVE HARRIS On Once Being Compared To HITLER By PAUL DI'ANNO: 'I Thought It Was Funny'
Last May, former IRON MAIDEN singer Paul Di’Anno came face to face with MAIDEN bassist Steve Harris for the first time in three decades before the band’s concert in Croatia.
Harris, whose group kicked off the 2022 leg of its “Legacy Of The Beast” world tour at the 22,000-capacity Arena Zagreb, came…
ALBUM REVIEW: Manic Ride (reissue) – BL’AST!
If you’ve any notion that history in music is essential to inform our own future, then well done, you’re correct. Seeing as that’s the case then you most likely get…
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Blast Worship: Nonsanto
In which Gene Meyer tries to convince himself that anyone is Philly is paying attention to the Flyers these days.
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KAMELOT's THOMAS YOUNGBLOOD: 'I've Never Allowed Someone Else To Dictate My Path'
By David E. Gehlke
When KAMELOT was shopping for a record deal in the desolate, unforgiving mid-1990s, founding member and guitarist Thomas Youngblood was thinking long term. Rather than signing with a stateside label that may not understand KAMELOT’s brand of melodic metal, Youngblood and company h…
Big Mono release new song ‘Truth Be Told’
BIG MONO have released a new song! Titled Truth Be Told, the latest single from the groove-driven classic rock band follows the release of their debut track A Thousand Times in September last…
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Black Metal Cross-Country Skiing And Norse Mythology: IVAR BJØRNSON Shares How ENSLAVED Assembled 'Heimdal'
By David E. Gehlke
“Our albums are old enough to drive now,” cracks guitarist, primary songwriter and one-half founding member of ENSLAVED, Ivar Bjørnson. Bjørnson is referring to the band’s newest opus, “Heimdal”, which is album number 16 for ENSLAVED. The script of ENSLAVED’s early 1990s Viking me…