…out “Brux” below, and then pre-order Mercy here. It was produced by Sanford Parker (Pelican, Nachtmystium) and mixed by Kurt Ballou (Do you seriously not know who Kurt Ballou is?!?!),…

…Shaw for doing the research. Debuts: Linkin Park, A Thousand Suns (Warner Bros.) #1, 241,000 Sully Erna, Avalon (Republic) #24, 13,900 Kamelot, Poetry for the Poisoned (Kamelot Media Group) #72,…

…Park in Japan, where we played to 50,000 people opening up for Priest and Megadeth. That’s the kind of environment we thrive in, a stadium show. This song might as…

…tour with High on Fire and Kylesa this fall; dates after the jump. -VN 9/21 Orlando, FL @ Park Ave CDs (In-Store) 9/22 New Orleans, LA @ The Big Top…

…matching that saw the baddest hockey player square off vs. the baddest NFL player, I’d chose the hockey player every single time. Motherfuckers are dirty. -Vince Neilstein Water polo. Because,…

…primarily comedic, but you can’t say that the fella doesn’t give an immersive performance. I think he could really hit the ball out of the park playing the legendary Queen…

…parks in Vegas? Well, the answer to that one is simple — I am on the pipe! Much has been made of my alleged crack habit. I ASSURE you there…

…A Thousand Suns around these parts, aside from Axl’s assessment last month: that “The good news is that Linkin Park’s new single, ‘The Catalyst,’ doesn’t sound exactly like every other…

…same sample at the start of their song “Antithesis,” the abso-fucking-lutely EPIC title track from their 2008 album. Now, I’m not accusing Suckin Park of ripping-off Origin. Like I said,…

…two stupid South Park caricatures that Axl made at his then-job when he was bored. (Axl forgot until just now that he had a really long goatee in ’06; Vince…

…networks greatly expanded their channel roster and niche channels like The Gameshow Network were born I always loved watching re-runs of The Match Game and Hollywood Squares. There’s something about…

…who looks an awful lot like Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington, a.k.a. “The Motherfucking Anti-Christ,” stuck in one of Jigsaw’s traps. So I looked on IMDB, and, sho’ ’nuff, Bennington is…

…maybe get an autograph or something and in the end he gets the job and the next thing he knows, he’s in Moscow in the Red Square and going to…

…Theater Sept. 23 – Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre Sept. 24 – San Francisco, CA @ The Parkside Sept. 25 – Santa Ana, CA @ Galaxy Theatre Sept. 26 –…

…the lines of mid-period Linkin Park (before they started listening to too much indie rock) or the post-18 Visions band N3V3R EN0U6H. If you ask me, there are not nearly…

…U.S. tour from the stage. Even though, in the words of Anso, metalheads are “supposed to intimidate and discomfit the squares,” we think the death metal cat burglar went a…

It’s been a long time since I was a college freshman, a fact which struck me this week as I engaged in my annual tradition of sitting in Washington Square…

…be square. We were crazy excited about Wormrot’s first U.S. tour, and so when a reputable source recently told us that the band were having difficulties getting into the country,…

…like Sarah Jessica Parker with a goatee, and SJP looks like a horse), and… Mr. Zakk Wylde. And people seem really, really put off by Wylde’s presence. One reader even…

…just survived, but thrived on a regimen of non-compromise. Future musicologists will no doubt struggle to explain how four guys from Huntington Park forced Reign in Blood down the world’s…