Spotify recently hit a point where more than 100,000 tracks are uploaded to the platform each day, and that number is only growing. Which means it’s harder than ever to get your music heard. And if you’re relying on the model of releasing a handful of singles and then dropping a full album, that means […]
Distant‘s new single “Human Scum” falls somewhere in the middle of brutal deathcore, industrial madness, and whatever the hell it is that Car Bomb does to make their guitars sound like broken computers. I’d say have fun moshing, but this one feels more like you’re two seconds away from having an existential crisis about all […]
Soen is now streaming their cover of Slipknot‘s “Snuff” from their upcoming livestream-turned-live-album Atlantis due out November 18. As the point points out, the single certainly feels steeped in the grandiosity of Pink Floyd with a helping of Soen‘s usual heavier aspects. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. “We wanted to do something extra special during […]
Slipknot‘s final effort on Roadrunner Records is selling just fine. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. According to Billboard, The End, So Far debuted at No. 2 the Billboard 200 chart with 59,000 equivalent album units earned. That number is comprised of 50,500 actual album sales, 8,000 streaming equivalent albums (or about 11 million streams), and […]
Lamb Of God treated the Aftershock Festival audience to their first-ever performance with three guitarists live! The band brought out frequent live fill-in Phil Demmel for an especially heavy version of “Redneck” which you can check out fan-filmed footage of above. It’s killer, and Lamb Of God really ought to consider bringing Demmel into their […]
Machine Head did a ton of touring and livestreams around the 25th anniversary of their Burn My Eyes album in 2019. The lineup for those shows included Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn and bassist Jared MacEachern alongside Burn My Eyes-era drummer Chris Kontos and guitarist Logan Mader. Flynn went on to recruit guitarist Wacław “Vogg” […]
Rob Zombie was joined on stage by original guitarist Mike Riggs for his Aftershock Festival set, telling the crowd Riggs had returned “after a 20-year absence.” Zombie didn’t say anything else about if Riggs was a permanent member of the band or where John 5 is (or if he’s even in the band anymore), though […]
Who would’ve ever thought we’d get Danny Elfman and grindcore weirdos The Locust teaming up for a song? But hey, it happened and it’s gloriously strange. The duo are now streaming their remix of Elfman‘s “Cruel Compensation” off the recent record Bigger. Messier. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. Check out the Dark Details-directed music video […]
Last month we reported on new AI that is able to create videos just with the input of lyrics to some of the most popular songs in music history. Videos to songs such as Metallica‘s “Enter Sandman,” Queen‘s “Don’t Stop Me Now,” and Blue Oyster Cult‘s “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” feature fascinating image renditions based […]
Chris Carey, bassist for Poison Idea and Burning Leather and guitarist for Dead Conspiracy and Religious War, has passed away at 51 years old. Brooklyn Vegan points out that the news of Carey‘s death comes from his longtime collaborator Frankie Delmane. We wish Carey‘s friends and family all the best at this time. Advertisement. Scroll […]
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