The Pittsburgh Steelers and the Minnesota Vikings squared off in London yesterday, and while I imagine the game’s organizers could have gotten any number of amazing singers who are world…

…to see these dudes play live. New vocalist Ashe O’ Hara was fantastic, by the way, spot on, and a much better visual presence and fit than Daniel Tompkins was….

…Winnipeg, MB @ Park Theater Oct 26 Minneapolis, MN @ Skyway Theater # Oct 27 Chicago, IL @ Reggie’s # Oct 28 Madison, WI @ High Noon # Oct 29…

…for Generation Swine to be considered a classic yet!) The original vinyl LP cover (below) featured not the now-famous four-square photo of the band you see above, but, rather, a…

Sometimes you can tell a lot about a band just from their album’s press release. In the case of Sweden’s Crowdburn, their release boasts that the band’s two music videos…

…charnel fields of Brutalia, and the fetid swamps of Blackwater Park, to help them rid their land of this douchebag menace once and for all!” I’d watch that movie over…

…like Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Orgy, and a host of other acts that make a strong argument for the extinction of the human race. Just look at some of these…

…store of pitching knowledge. They still have a good offense, even after giving up Hamilton and Young, but the pitchers have done well despite pitching in a hitter’s ballpark. Yu…

…I were getting tired of going to the movies every weekend, so we decided to go see this band called Slayer at a little club in Buena Park called the…

…zoom in on that first word: Park. We all know the typical fest experience: we’re herded into a dirt bowl, we find no shelter, we breathe dust, we crunch atop…

Here in sunny Brooklyn, this weekend yields the 9th annual Afropunk Festival and for today and tomorrow Commodore Barry Park will be taken over by all sorts of bands, bikes,…

…edition Mayhem Festival gunmetal microG from G Pen. Ya know, to smoke… ya know. We’ve also got a regular microG to give away to one runner up. So spark ’em…

To preview their current MetalSucks-sponsored tour with Wintersun, Arsis and Fleshgod Apocalypse, we asked Starkill guitarist Parker jameson to put together a rundown of his live setup for our Rigged…

…Urfolk) listen Mindset Evolution Brave, Bold & Broken (Prospect Park) listen Oathbreaker Eros/Anteros (Deathwish Inc.) listen listen Primitive Man Scorn (Relapse) listen read Saint Vitus C.O.D. reissue (Season Of Mist)…

Stupid squares strike again! Wicks Park in Commack, NY was vandalized last week — specifically, someone spray-painted the name of a certain legendary thrash metal band, as well as pentagram,…

…that—this is an album that’s more interesting than kick-ass or brutal; it doesn’t inspire the fist-pumping spark of Sworn To The Dark. But that only points to progression, which the…

…Flashback delay, a Hall Of Fame reverb and a Spark Mini Booster, all by TC Electronic. I may switch the order of these pedals around at some point soon: I’m…

…music has the same disreputable appeal as the classics of that genre: the same squares you’re rooting for the killer to off in the most comedically-horrific manner possible would judge…

…for Opeth lies in between “Hey, that’s not bad” and “Eh, not right now.” Yes, I’ve tried My Arms, Your Hearse and Blackwater Park. I even gave Orchid a shot….

…and maybe a page or two about progressive metal. But it was like going back to square one. Just, total resistance [from the publisher], everything happening on a very slow…