Category Archives: Hard Rock/Metal

“Spotify Are The Biggest Criminals In The World”

Just in case anyone forgot, it’s damn near impossible to make a living wage off music these days. Touring costs are through the roof, record sales are down, and streaming services aren’t exactly putting lots of food on the table. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. Cradle Of Filth vocalist Dani Filth recently spoke to Rock […]

HELLOWEEN & HAMMERFALL Bring Power Metal To The Forefront During Bombastic Tour Run

What do you get when you bring together the long-beloved combination of pumpkins and hammers? You get The Smashing…. Wait, no, it’s the Helloween and Hammerfall United Forces 2023 North American tour! Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. Helloween and Hammerfall joined forces in 2022 for a bombastic joint tour across Europe, and in September, the […]

Announcing The Inaugural Metal Injection Festival This September Feat. TESTAMENT, MAX & IGOR CAVALERA, MACHINE HEAD, FEAR FACTORY & More!

I’m elated to announce the first-ever Metal Injection Festival, which will take over Orange County, CA on September 16 @ the The Observatory and September 17 @ House of Blues Anaheim. The full lineups are: Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. September 16 @ The Observatory (BUY TIX HERE) Max & Igor Cavalera (Morbid Visions and […]

CONVERGE & CAVE IN Added To Two BOTCH Reunion Shows

Botch is playing a ton of reunion shows this October and November, and now they’ve got two era-specific classics joining them in Massachusetts and New Jersey! Converge and Cave In have been set for the two aforementioned Botch shows, and you can get the full routing below. Get your tickets here. Advertisement. Scroll to continue […]

CODE ORANGE’s Guitarist To Sit Out European Tour

Code Orange guitarist Dominic Landolina will sit out the band’s upcoming European dates due to his recent foot surgery. “We will be without our brother [Dominic Landolina] on our european tour as he’s just undergone foot surgery,” wrote the band. “The price of going hard for many years. wish him the best and see you […]

WHITECHAPEL Is In The Studio

Whitechapel is in the studio recording their ninth full-length album. It looks like the band is recording the album with Whitechapel guitarist (and owner of Titan Audio) Zach Householder, who also produced Whitechapel‘s 2010 record A New Era Of Corruption. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. The new record will also be Whitechapel‘s first with drummer […]

CANNIBAL CORPSE’s PAUL MAZURKIEWICZ Discusses The Mystique Of Pre-Social Media Days

The day of pre-social media meant reading magazines and digging through the liner notes to find out about your favorite bands. And then maybe, just maybe, you’ll get to see ’em live and have a quick chat. Now you can find out what their drummer ate for lunch and what they think about current affairs […]

BLOOD THRONE (WITHIN THE RUINS, GARGOYL) Drops New Single “Crawl”

Blood Throne the brand new, plenty blackened band featuring Tim Goergen (Within the Ruins) on vocals, Josh Gomez (The Machinist) on guitar, James Knoerl (Aviations, Gargoyl) on drums, Mike Beaujean (Within the Ruins, Burning Tongue) on guitar, and Marc Sergenian (Burning Tongue) on bass. The band is now streaming their debut single “Crawl”, which is […]

SPORAE AUTEM YUGGOTH However It Still Moves

Do you like feeling grim and unsettled? Do you also want to somehow lose yourself in that mood, giving yourself away to ominous, melancholy despondence? Then pay heed to the spirits emanating from this Chilean band’s excellent debut album. Sporae Autem Yuggoth has arrived with their first full-length of all-enveloping doom-death. Judging from this album, […]