Allan Holdsworth is (or should be) an inspiration to every guitar player on the planet. Crazy Swedes clearly dig Holdsworth‘s insane melodic vocabulary, and used that inspiration to create their insane new single “Key Lime.” And what the hell does that title mean, exactly? Crazy Swedes‘ Will Severin explains. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. “A […]
Ghost paid tribute to the late and great Death mastermind Chuck Schuldiner during a September 6 show in Tampa, FL. The band played a partial cover of Death‘s “Zombie Ritual” before diving into their own “Cirice,” which you can check out above (around the 4:17 mark). Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. Ghost is currently on the […]
Loathe have announced a North American tour that will find the band performing their critically acclaimed 2020 album I Let It In And It Took Everything every night along the two month run. This news is big lift in the sails, after news last month that Loathe had canceled their upcoming European and U.K. tour dates, shifting […]
Dave Mustaine has been quite a Chatty Cathy lately—which is to be expected since he’s out on the publicity campaign in support of the new Megadeth LP, the very solid The Sick, The Dying…And The Dead! It’s the band’s 16th album and the most alive and relevant Megadeth have sounded in years. That’s surely a […]
If there were to be a sagely wizard of death and gothic doom in the metal space, it would be Nick Holmes. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. The British master of the melancholic face-melt (can we coin that?), balances time between his trend-setting faction Paradise Lost and frontman duties for death metal super-group Bloodbath, the […]
Former DevilDriver guitarist Neal Tiemann has officially joined Carnifex after playing live with the band on recent tours. According to Carnifex vocalist Scott Ian Lewis in an interview with The Jasta Show, Tiemann is currently working on writing the next Carnifex record that will be tracked with Jason Suecof in February 2023. Advertisement. Scroll to […]
This month marks the 30th anniversary of Alice In Chains seminal masterpiece Dirt, and the band is celebrating in a notable way. An anniversary box set is scheduled for release later this month, and this summer, the band announced a collab with Funko! Pop for a series of Dirt-era figurines. Guitarist Jerry Cantrell and drummer […]
Wednesday 13 is back with a plodding, heavy new single called “Insides Out” that feels reminiscent of the early 2000s. It’s got all the squealing effects of yesterday, all the grooves found in the heyday of nü-metal, and all the crushing riffs of… well, take your pick. Just slow all that down a touch and […]
Children Of Bodom drummer Jaska Raatikainen, bassist Henkka Seppälä, and keyboardist Janne Wirman are carrying on their legacy in the form of the Bodom Bar & Sauna. The bar and sauna is opening on November 10 in Espoo, Finland and will include a museum-type display of gear and memorabilia from throughout Children Of Bodom‘s lengthy […]
Holy Fawn (“four creatures making loud heavy pretty noises” as they categorize themselves) are experts at producing cathartic chaos. Essentially mixing alternative rock, shoegaze, and metal into fairly resourceful and haunting concoctions, they provide lusciously temperamental soundscapes within which listeners can get easily lost. Dimensional Bleed—the follow-up to 2018’s Death Spells debut LP and 2020’s […]