…them back in April for the Flexi Series. And the thrash upstarts kindly knocked it out of the park with DRI/Nuclear Assault-nodding “Religion Proof,” a choice cut from the Feast…

…seventeen-year veteran French thrashcore unit that incorporates the punkier stylings of nü-metal (think Rage Against The Machine), funky bass passages a la 311, and Linkin Park-esque Good Cop/Bad Cop vocal…

…Carnalation play heavy, fast tunes, but there’s a spark missing here. The Finnish band needs to add something to the mix to make their tunes more recognizable or something, because…

…go on to sell out Madison Square Garden anyway. Big whoop. ANYWAY, Niven was fired a couple of years later and replaced by his assistant, Doug Goldstein — making him…

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…back to square one (although admittedly way better off in their lives). We haven’t heard very much about them since. Of course you all know about Anvil, a band whose…

…Blackwater Park Part II! Imagine all the possibilities! But Wilson dropped a bomb sure to deflate many a stiffy in a recent interview with StarsDie.com [via Metal Injection], in which…

…will be pumped about this feature, and others squarely in the “fuck that, can’t stand him” zone. Which leads to a natural question: Who is the most annoying vocalist for…

…Fillmore (O) 05/10 – Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore (M) 05/11 – Myrtle Beach, SC @ House of Blues (M) 05/12 – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade Music Park (M) -AR…

…Danny Lohner (Skrew, Nine Inch Nails) on remixes of Sturm’s high school drama class colleagues Evanescence and Linkin Park. Oh and lolz there’s a 100% drug-free Ben Weinman remix of…

…Madison Square Garden, with Metallica. This is much more our style — I like to see your faces!” Indeed, it was refreshing to see Lamb of God at the relatively…

…out of the park. The song is powerful, big, instantly headbangable and, yes, even anthemic; Primitive Weapons have somehow found their own singular voice in a post-Mastodonian minefield littered with…

…perfect tour for them, ’cause, like Mastodon (and Opeth to a lesser extent), they’re the kind of band that could reach across the proverbial aisle and unite headbangers and squares…

…squarest squares possible, check out this screen cap from the website advertising the exhibit: You can just hear the Bret Michaels-hosted informercial in your head, can’t you? The exhibit opens…

…points squarely at Probot. Of course it’s entirely possible that Grohl is working on something else entirely. But I’m calling it right now: Probot’s second album! Having just wrapped up…

…wondering how you make the † symbol, it’s Option-T on a Mac (PC: I couldn’t tell ya). Copy-and-paste is sweet, too. -VN Photo credit: Tyler William Parker for Rolling Stone…

…bit more specific about what those numbers are or at least ballpark? I really can’t. That’s stuff I rather not get into if that’s okay. Come on, Matt! [Laughs] No,…

I love Goatwhore because a) I love telling squares I make my living writing about bands with names like “Goatwhore,” and b) more importantly, they never seem to let us…

…I pondered right here on this blog if hardcore wasn’t on destined to be the indie trend of 2012.) After all, 2010’s critically-acclaimed Rohnert Park didn’t adhere to any rigid…

…the Phantom of the Park, with the Metallicats participating in some sort of ultra-corny hijinks — but we do know that producer Charlotte Huggins is involved. Personally, I don’t find…