Spiritworld returns with metallic hardcore, Lovecraftian horror and Wild West lore with a first new single in years ‘Western Stars & The Apocalypse’, out via Century Media and including an animated video fitting the act’s well-established universe!
New Wave of American Metal frontrunners Shadows Fall have signed to MNRK Heavy for their future release and celebrated with a video for their new single ‘In the Grey’!
girlpuppy shares her buzzing resolute new single ‘Champ’, the first on her new label home Captured Tracks and complete with a video involving Becca in a boxing match!
Florida rock duo The Haunt gives zero f*cks on their latest single and music video ‘Going Under’, out now!
Metalcore giants Bleeding Through announced their new album ‘NINE’ to be out in February 2025 via SharpTone Records and unleashed another single with ‘Path Of Our Disease’!
LA-based NWOTHM heroes Saber have announced their much-anticipated next album ‘Lost In Flames’ to be released via ROAR in February 2025 and unleashed a video for the title track!
Last week, metalcore institution Killswitch Engage announced their upcoming new album ‘This Consequence’ set for release in February via Metal Blade and shared a first single with ‘Forever Aligned’!
Hardcore quintet Stick To Your Guns announced their upcoming new album ‘Keep Planting Flowers’ to be released via SharpTone Records on January 10 and shared a video for the short and ferocious track ‘More Than A Witness’!
Symphonic power metal band Valkyrie’s Fire harvest souls for Valhalla with their ‘Ride of the Valkyrie’ music video, a track from their recently via Eclipse Records released EP ‘Ascension’!
Modern metal outfit The Tale Untold released their new album ‘Counterculture’ last Friday and shared a lyric video for ‘The Craving’ to celebrate!
Pop Evil and Bad Wolves joined forces on the “Animal Instinct Tour” touring through the US, bringing along Sierra Pilot and ONI for the ride! We caught them at their Thanksgiving eve show at Pierre’s in Ft. Wayne in Indiana!
40 years – what an anniversary for the Brazilian metal icons SEPULTURA. At the same time, it’s a ’40 Years Farewell Tour – Celebrating Life Through Death’. With 15 albums to their name, puts on a great show, supported by JESUS PIECE, OBITUARY and JINJER. What a goodbye for a legendary band, MHP Arena in Ludwigsburg, Germany literally boiled over!
Time to celebrate 35 years of psychedelic stoner rock: we caught MONSTER MAGNET at one of their stops on their anniversary tour, bringing us together with support DAILY THOMPSON a night full of psychedelic infused Stoner-Rock at LKA Longhorn in Stuttgart, Germany! And they showed that they’re still an excellent live band and still the benchmark against which established and upcoming bands must measure themselves.
Hed pe is a veteran band with 30 years under their belt and are well known for their eclectic blend of nu-metal, reggae, hip-hop and punk rock. They have really created and sustained a unique niche in the industry and it’s not surprising they continue to show up for their loyal fans, who in turn made the night at The Eclectic Room in Angola, IN great!
Between their festival summer dates in Europe, CLUTCH have given a few club shows called the “New World Samurai Tour 2024”. On one of the hottest days of German summer 2024 they turned up the heat some degrees more with an outstanding gig at Substage in Karlsruhe. Supported by Green Lung, a great night of blues and stoner infused rock and some notes of classic NWOBHM left a happy crowd.
While on the road supporting In This Moment and Ice Nine Kills on tour in the USA, the Swedish metallers of Avatar came to bring their “Great Metal Circus” to the Clyde Theatre in Ft Wayne, Indiana. One of the few headlining stops they’re doing, providing people the chance to get the full experience and freakshow treatment that usually comes with the band, providing a night to remember for many there! Support came from locals Mantra of Morta!
Fans were definitely ready to “FACE IT”, the show with Nothing More, Veil Of Maya and Of Virtue, that is! Concert-goers were lined down the sidewalk and around the block in anticipation of the concert at Kemba Live in Columbus, Ohio. And what a fantastic night it became!
The El Corazon venue in the center of Seattle came alive with a burst of energy when Greek extreme metal legends Rotting Christ took over the stage there a couple of weeks ago!
A selection of Rachel’s best captures of 2023, with pictures from bands like Mudvayne, Nonpoint, Drowning Pool, From Ashes To New, Shinedown, Fozzy, Butcher Babies, Sumy Cyco, Black Stone Cherry and Saliva!
Nonpoint, one of our photographers’ favorite bands to see live, made a stop at The Eclectic Room in Angola, Indiana on their “The Milliion Watts Tour 2023” and with the help of (hed)pe, Sumo Cyco and VRSTY turned the night in an absolute barn burner!
U.S. death metal four-piece Sentient Horror delivers a brutal slab of old school death metal on their fourth studio album “In Service of Dead”. Out via Redefining Darkness Records since October 25th.
Here is the seventh piece of resistance in the history of Fit For An Autopsy called ‘The Nothing That Is’, another masterpiece and their magnus epos (for now), out via Nuclear Blast! Catch them on their EU/UK tour that started yesterday, you won’t want to sit this one out!
Maul’s second full length album “In The Jaws of Bereavement” is aggressive and brutally unhinged, one of the grittiest modern death metal albums released this year out via 20 Buck Spin since October 4th.
Know, oh prince, that in the years following their self-titled debut, there was an age undreamed of for Stygian Crown. Hither came ‘Funeral for a King’, their sophomore record, heavy riffed, soaringly vocaled. Fists in the air, with gigantic melodies and gigantic doom, to tread the beer-drenched stages of your summer festivals under their sandaled feet. Taken from the Cruz del Sur Chronicles.
Civerous packs the sophomore “Maze Envy” with modulation of black/death metal, there are some nuances of blackened death metal that serve a dreary atmosphere. Out via 20 Buck Spin since last week, March 22nd.
Dipygus self-titled third album brings treats fans of old school death metal with something fresh, raw and disgusting, out now via Memento Mori.
Hulder on its second full length album “Verses In Oath” presents an enthralling mixture of pagan/folk black metal with many unforgettable epic moments, out via 20 Buck Spin today, February 9th.
Cincinnati, Ohio based melodic black metal outfit Valdrin is back with a bombastic symphonic offering inspired by fictional magical realms and magic. “Throne Of The Lunar Soul” is out now via Blood Harvest.
Black Stone Cherry have their eighth studio album, ‘Screamin’ At The Sky’, set for release on Friday 29th September via Mascot Records. After a rather not so hard and heavy styled album, we are happy to say that they’re back with 12 hard, heavy, blues-rock infused songs, the BSC we all fell in love with in the past!
Lunar Chamber is one of the most unique bands in the subgenre of progressive technical death metal. Their debut EP “Shambhallic Vibrations” is such a mind-boggling record full of sophisticated riffing and a bizarre ethereal atmosphere, released via 20 Buck Spin.
