Category Archives: Hard Rock/Metal

JAMES HETFIELD Really Needs To Do An Acoustic Album

Metallica is now streaming their acoustic cover of Thin Lizzy‘s “Borderline” performed for the first time ever during the All Within My Hands Concert & Auction shows. It’s a great cover performed very well by the band, but more importantly reinforces the fact that James Hetfield really needs to do an acoustic album. Advertisement. Scroll […]

AVENGED SEVENFOLD & ANIMALS AS LEADERS On Drums With One Hand Is Insane

Who needs two hands when you’re El Estepario Siberiano? Dude is so good at drums that he can rip right on through sections of Avenged Sevenfold‘s “Bat Country” not only with one hand, but smoking and pointing at stuff with the other. It’s incredible. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. There’s also the cover of “Kascade” […]

G.I.S.M., BELTFED WEAPON, FAUSTIAN & More Among Gimme Metal’s Top Tracks of the Week

Beltfed Weapon – “Darkened Demise” Fourth in a succession of EPs over the years, Seattle booker-extrordinaire Frank Hetzel’s all-star project Beltfed Weapon returns with more gristle. Flanked by personnel from Morbid Angel (Steve Taylor!), Control Denied, Arch Enemy, Black Label Society, Testament, Into Eternity, and Heathen, their latest EP and title track here Darkened Demise […]

NERVOSA Parts Ways With Drummer NANU VILLALBA

Nervosa has parted ways with drummer Nanu Villalba due to a “lack of common agreement.” Villalba was only hired earlier this year to replace Eleni Nota, who had been in the band between 2020 and 2022. Nervosa states Villalba‘s departure will not affect the creation of their follow-up to 2021’s Perpetual Chaos. Advertisement. Scroll to […]

EP Review: FRENZEE Frenzee

Punk has to be among the most ageless and dependable genres, as it’s essentially been going strong since it formally kicked off around the mid-’70s. While it’s had its fair share of evolutions and differences since then, that original attitude has remained beloved ever since. Case in point: Australian trio Frenzee, whose debut EP—Frenzee—flows like […]

DAVE LOMBARDO & His Wife Have A Very Lovely Christmas Song For You

Drummer Dave Lombardo (Testament, ex-Slayer, etc.) and his wife Paula Lombardo are now streaming their new Christmas single “The Gift.” The single was written by both Paula and Dave, mixed by Dave, mastered by John Golden of Golden Mastering, and features a video by Displaced/Replaced. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. I know you’re expecting some […]