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 […]
Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan recently joined in for an interview with Rick Beato as he spoke about A Perfect Circle, stating he hasn’t left the band and he sees a potential tour coming. Maynard James Keenan opens up on A Perfect Circle During the interview, he was asked if he ever listens to his […]
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 […]
Omar Hakim has posted a new photo of Rush’s surviving members with Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, “Getting ready for the first Taylor Hawkins Tribute Show in London! So FUN for Dave and I to rehearse with Geddy and Alex of RUSH!!” The former Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson recently recalled the time when decided to […]
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 […]
There have been some long-standing debates over ‘Rock is dead.’ Previously, Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard had discussed the whole topic of grunge music supposedly killing metal. He also reflected on the long standing controversial topic of ‘Rock is dead.’ Now, Kiss bassist Gene Simmons has opened up on the debate. Gene Simmons explains why […]
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 […]
Demi Lovato guitarist Nita Strauss said there are no hard feelings between her and former employer Alice Cooper, and she hasn’t ruled out a return to the shock-rocker’s band. “It’s an interesting thing that everyone’s picked up saying it’s a ‘departure’ but I don’t feel, necessarily, that I left,” Strauss told Louder. “I took a step back and […]
Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler had once played with the idea of being on shows with Led Zeppelin. The Aerosmith lead singer had even practiced with Zeppelin guitar legend Jimmy Page for the potential gigs where he’d apparently supplant Robert Plant, Zeppelin’s iconic vocalist. However, that never materialized and fans never got a chance to witness the […]