Incite frontman Richie Cavalera talks Up in Hell, the Phoenix metal scene, touring Europe, the changing music business, and why the next generation of bands needs a chance. Richie Cavalera is a man…

Swiss folk-metal powerhouse Eluveitie have built a reputation for combining extreme metal with ancient Celtic traditions, and frontman Chrigel Glanzmann has been at the heart of that vision from th…

“We wanted to stay true to our roots” explains Kristen, guitarist. “Everything we’ve written comes from a real life experience. Music, like any art medium, has always been a form of catharsis for u…

By Dig Dirkler…..Buy us a Coffee on Ko-fi After more than three decades on the road with Swiss hard rock veterans Shakra, Mark Fox still gets nervous before a show. Not the kind of nerves that make…

The Finnish metal veteran opens up about the band’s new album, AI-generated music, Finnish melancholy, paranormal mysteries, and why Insomnium refuses to chase trends.

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By Dig Dirkler…..Buy us a Coffee on Ko-fi What happens when an artist realizes the thing he sacrificed everything for may have cost him the very things that mattered most? For BRYMIR vocalist Vikto…

By Eddie Jorgensen – Buy us a Coffee on Ko-fi The Central Valley has long been known as an agricultural hub. However, thanks to the fine folks at the Haggin Museum, it is slowly gaining a reputatio…

Revocation guitarist and vocalist David Davidson is no stranger to pushing the boundaries between thrash and death metal. But with the band’s latest album, Great Is Our Sin, Davidson says the death…

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Harlott vocalist and guitarist Andrew Hudson talks about the band’s fifth album, embracing musical freedom, the enduring Slayer comparisons, politically charged lyrics, kangaroos, and why he stoppe…

Unleash the Archers vocalist Brittney Slayes opens up about Transformers, DragonForce, new music, and why some Iron Maiden memories just can’t be replaced. What do Unicron, maple syrup, moose, Tran…

Whenever Corrosion Of Conformity releases a new album, folks take notice. But their latest is a true event. It’s been a dozen years since Corrosion Of Conformity recorded new material with vocalist…

After years of relentless touring and lineup changes, the Italian power metal outfit has arrived at a new chapter with The Legend of the Six Kings — an album that feels more immediate, cinematic, a…

By Christopher Crone – Buy us a Coffee on Ko-fi Saturday night at Goldfield Trading Post brought a little bit of everything — heavy riffs, groove, attitude, and enough neon insanity to make you won…

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The Deathgrave guitarist, Autopsy member, and Oakland recording engineer talks tacos, sideburns, DIY metal, AI, vintage Explorers, and why the underground still refuses to die.

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Goldfield Trading Post was already heating up when (HED) P.E., Spineshank, and Nonpoint rolled into town for a night of heavy riffs, industrial noise, and enough energy to keep the place moving fro…

Buy us a Coffee on Ko-fi The genre-bending band behind Ethereic Realms of the Night talks dreams, the supernatural, AI, cinematic metal—and why Philly cheesesteaks might belong inside a soft pretze…

The NWOBHM veterans had the songs, the musicianship and the backing of some of the biggest names in British rock. So why didn’t Cloven Hoof become the next Iron Maiden? Lee Payne still wonders.

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As the vocalist and guitarist of New Orleans metal institution Exhorder, Kyle Thomas has spent decades watching heavy music evolve, disappear, reinvent itself, and occasionally come back around. Ex…

The man behind Cleveland blackened speed-metal maniacs Midnight has never been particularly interested in behaving like a conventional musician. Sitting backstage in the bowels of a Berkeley theate…

By Chris Crone …..Buy us a Coffee on Ko-fi Eight bands. One stage. One packed room. And by the time Hatebreed took the stage, Ace of Spades was basically a human pressure cooker. The night started …

By John Faddis  …..Buy us a Coffee on Ko-fi From the feedback slowly filling your ears with sonic pleasure the boys from Down rip into the new track Blood Oath from their forthcoming release Volume…

The Cavalera brothers revisit Sepultura’s landmark album, rediscover its brutality, and reveal what the Roots tour could mean for the future of Cavalera Conspiracy. Twenty years after Roots changed…

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By Tom Sundgren Miscreance return with their sophomore album Reminiscence with more technical riffs and varied writing The Italian technical death/thrash metal four piece are back with their new al…

Italian technical thrash metal band Miscreance are preparing to unleash their new album, Reminiscence, on August 28. Following 2022’s Convergence, the band spent several years developing a record t…

What happens when human flaws stop being abstract ideas and become demons with names, identities, stories, and sound? For Lithuanian metal band BLACK SPIKES, the answer is Ydos — a conceptual journ…

By John Faddis  …..Buy us a Coffee on Ko-fi From the line of people on Euclid Ave all the way down East 4th street it was apparent the hot ticket for the night at the Cleveland House of Blues was M…

By Christopher Crone …..Buy us a Coffee on Ko-fi Café Colonial was packed with punk-fueled energy on August 8 as four bands took the stage for a night that moved from tight and aggressive to downri…

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By Dig Dirkler…..Buy us a Coffee on Ko-fi Kamelot guitarist Thomas Youngblood takes us inside Dark Asylum—a cinematic journey through darkness, redemption, psychology, spirituality, and the unknown…

By Christopher Crone …..Buy us a Coffee on Ko-fi After making the drive down from Colfax, I pulled into The Rink Studios around 5:00 PM to scope out the venue ahead of a heavy night of Sacramento m…

Black metal has always thrived on atmosphere, conviction, and individuality, and Iceland’s Forsmán is carrying that tradition forward in its own distinctive way. In this conversation with Cap…

By Christopher Crone …..Buy us a Coffee on Ko-fi Wake the Beast wasted no time setting the tone for the night. From the moment they hit the stage, the Sacramento crowd was met with a wall of aggres…

By Dig Dirkler…..Buy us a Coffee on Ko-fi Few bands blend history, folklore, and extreme metal as naturally as TSAR STANGRA. Their latest album, Hymns of the Broken Worlds, is the culmination of ne…

Celebrating 30 Years of Solace with a Look at Fading Falling Ruin After three decades of crushing riffs and uncompromising heavy music, Solace returns with Fading Falling Ruin, an album that embrac…

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Rock veterans Tesla are back with Homage, a heartfelt collection of classic songs that influenced the band’s journey, while also delivering the brand-new original track “Never Alone.&#8…

By Christopher Crone …..Buy us a Coffee on Ko-fi San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall has seen its share of legendary performances over the decades, and on July 13 it played host to a li…

Emerging in the early 2020’s – Static Abyss is a monstrous hybrid of twisted, doom-laden brutal death, comprising of longstanding members of the US metal scene. The band consists primarily of…