Category Archives: Hard Rock/Metal

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Guitarist Says Metal Is The Only Genre Where Fans Call Successful Bands Sellouts

You’ve seen the cycle a million times – a band gains some traction with their first album or demo and they’re hailed as an underground gem. Then as they get discovered and achieve the success that comes along with getting bigger, all of a sudden they’re sellouts. In an interview with FaceCulture, Five Finger Death […]

Four Former SUBROSA Members Reunite In THE OTOLITH

Former SubRosa members Kim Cordray, Levi Hanna, Andy Patterson, and Sarah Pendleton have all reunited in the beautifully doomy new band The Otolith. The band is now streaming the monolith debut single “Sing No Coda” from their upcoming debut album Folium Limina due out October 21. The Otolith‘s lineup is rounded out by bassist Matt […]

UNDEATH Vocalist Discusses Why Metal Fans Love To Categorize Music So Much

If there’s one thing that fans of extreme metal love more than being hateful on the internet, it’s compartmentalizing the music they love. A band that might seem terrifyingly incomprehensible to the majority of the general populous is neatly filed away into the “raw-vampyric-bandcamp-black-metal” section of the average contemporary metal listener’s brain. This propensity for […]

SPACE OF VARIATIONS Drops Hypnotically Heavy New Single “DNA Molecule In A Million Of Dimensions”

Ukrainian metal Space Of Variations is now streaming their hypnotic new single “DNA molecule in a million of dimensions.” The track is a really unique take on a progressive sound, falling somewhere between Tesseract and Last Chance To Reason with just a little trap influence for good measure. Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading. “We choose […]

TOBIAS FORGE Says Next GHOST Album Will Be Different From Impera

Ghost released their new album Impera this March, but of course Ghost mastermind Tobias Forge is already planning ahead for the next one. In an interview with Heavy Consequence, Forge said he’s got an idea for a new record that’ll be conceptually different from both Impera and Prequelle. Forge notes that the ideas for both […]

MASTODON Streams 90-Minute Hushed And Grim Documentary

Mastodon is now streaming their new 90-minute documentary The Making Of Hushed And Grim. The documentary examines the recording process, and ideas behind, Mastodon‘s 2021 album Hushed And Grim alongside a few comedic bits for levity. Or as the band describes it, “The 90 minute film is an intimate look at the bands creative process, […]

KORN’s FIELDY Is Coming Back… With New STILLWELL Music

Korn bassist Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu is returning to the world, but not with his main band Korn. Instead, Fieldy has announced he’ll be putting out new music with his band Stillwell on September 16. You can check out a brief trailer for the single below which doesn’t really offer much in terms of actual music. […]

SUNN O))) Is Selling A Bunch Of Their Pedals

If you’ve ever wanted to drone like Sunn O))) does, here’s your chance! The band has opened their own Reverb shop to sell a handful of pedals they’ve used over the years, including two of the first version of the band’s collaboration with EarthQuaker Devices, the Life Pedal. “I’m not only the Life Pedal president, […]

DANNY ELFMAN Announces Special Halloween Show

Newly-minted solo artist and voice of Jack Skellington (among other things) Danny Elfman has announced a special one-off Halloween show at The Hollywood Bowl. Much like his Coachella performance, Elfman‘s live band will include guitarists Wes Borland (Limp Bizkit) and Nili Brosh (Tony MacAlpine, ex-Cirque du Soleil), bassist Stu Brooks (Dub Trio) and drummer Josh […]

DEAD CROSS Drops “Heart Reformer” Alongside Bloody New Video

Dead Cross will release their new record II on October 28 and is now streaming the frantic new single “Heart Reformer” alongside a pretty gross new video directed and edited by Dark Details (a.k.a. Chris J. Cunningham).. If you’re into watching a dude get his teeth removed and then beat the crap out of another […]