Guitarist Nita Strauss announced that she would not be joining Alice Cooper for his upcoming tours back in July. Strauss has since joined Demi Lovato‘s live band and Cooper has recruited his former guitarist Kane Roberts. Though in an interview with Louder, Strauss reveals she hasn’t actually quit Cooper‘s live band and instead has simply […]

Allegaeon has split with vocalist Riley McShane, who fronted the band between 2015 and 2022. While Allegaeon has yet to comment on the matter, McShane has posted the below statement wishing his former bandmates all the best. McShane also notes that Allegaeon will still hit the road in Europe this November with Fallujah, Inferi, and […]

Marty Friedman is now streaming a beautifully-animated video for his cover of Ikimono-gakari‘s 2012 track “Kaze Ga Fuiteiru.” The cover is originally from Friedman‘s 2021 album Tokyo Jukebox 3 featuring covers of various Japanese musical works. As for the video, Friedman stated “All the people in all the countries in the world are connected by […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]