Chimp Spanner disappeared after its 2012 EP All Roads Lead Here, but fortunately returned to the world in January 2021 with a new single “Tombstone City.” The project, headed up by guitarist Paul Ortiz, has been releasing singles ever since and now we’ve got an especially heavy one. Chimp Spanner is now streaming “Fractured” featuring […]
Randy Rhoads claimed he was too tired to audition for Ozzy Osbourne’s band, the late guitarist’s brother says. It wasn’t the only excuse he used before finally taking part a trial performance in September 1979 as Osbourne was assembling his first post-Black Sabbath band, according to the new documentary Randy Rhoads: Reflections of a Guitar […]
The wait for No Devotion’s long-awaited new album is almost over. It is so SO lovely having a stream of new music from No Devotion once again. The band have shared another song from their long-awaited second album ‘No Oblivion’, and it is simply astonishing. It’s called ‘Repeaters’ and is everything that you could want […]
One of the most immensely heavy acts to come out of the 2000s metalcore scene, Massachusetts’ The Acacia Strain have worked bloody hard for over 20 years to keep their career ticking over while so many of their peers have fallen away. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. And what a career they’ve had; touring the […]
Former Kiss guitarist Bruce Kulick reflected that even support from the band’s fans couldn’t save Union, the group he formed with John Corabi in the late ‘90s. The project took form after Kiss’ return to makeup with its original lineup meant there was no room for him, and after Corabi had been ejected from Motley […]
Guns N’ Roses spring/summer 2022 European tour wrapped on July 15 in Hanover, Germany. The band will pick up again in September in South America. It has been reported that the band is working on a new studio album — the first under the Guns banner since 2008’s “Chinese Democracy” and the first to feature Axl […]
Metallica is obviously very popular in modern times, but YouTuber Algal the Bard proves that the band’s compositions could’ve probably slayed way back in Medieval times as well! Check out Algal the Bard‘s cover of Metallica‘s super thrashy epic “One,” which he notes was performed on Lute-guitar, Irish Bouzouki and Flabiol. Advertisement. Scroll to continue […]
A Michael McDonald solo album seemed kind of inevitable by the summer of 1982. Born in Missouri, McDonald moved to Los Angeles in 1970 with his band Blue, worked with Steely Dan from 1975-76, and then joined the Doobie Brothers in 1975, quickly giving the band two big hits — “Takin’ It to the Streets” […]
Solence continue to combine rock and rave culture in a way that only they can. Solence have shared a new track, and it’s one for the dancefloor. It’s called ‘Demons’ and finds the band pushing their creative buttons in several different directions. Part existential hard rock banger, part post-hardcore bruiser and part EDM experiment, it’s […]
When Porcupine Tree announced they’d be reforming in 2022 and releasing the very much-acclaimed LP Closure/Continuation, prog metal fans did backflips in rejoice. Around 2010, guitarist/vocalist Steven Wilson turned his focus to his solo career, mostly as a response to the negative environment within Porcupine Tree circa 2009, as 14 months of touring for their […]