Category Archives: Hard Rock/Metal

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 […]

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 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 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 […]

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 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 […]

Hours before taking the stage at Nova Rock 2023 in Austria tonight, June 7, Slipknot announced they had parted ways with longtime programmer and keyboardist Craig Jones. Or at least they announced it, and then removed it from all social media. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. In the since-deleted social media post, Slipknot only commented: […]

There are few melodic/progressive death metal bands that balance softness, harshness, and theatricality better than Sweden’s Scar Symmetry. Their sixth studio LP (and first in a planned trilogy), 2014’s The Singularity (Phase I – Neohumanity), demonstrated that exceptionally well; as such, it concurrently solidified that group’s stylistic mastery and made the nine-year wait for a […]

Nothing,Nowhere, the project headed up by singer and guitarist Joe Mulherin, will hit the road this September and October with SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Static Dress, and UnityTX. Get the full routing below and get your tickets here. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. 9/5 Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground9/6 New York, NY @ Gramercy Theatre9/8 Boston, MA @ […]