…did was start a small steam cleaning carpet business. Here was a guy who had headlined Madison Square Garden driving a van around Los Angeles and hustling Scotch Guard to…

…friend Sam (left) at a Fear Factory show at Northern Lights in Clifton Park, NY on Friday night – and I give Dino major, major props for participating in their…

…San Francisco, CA @ Thee Parkside 8/26 Canoga Park, CA @ Cobalt Café 8/27 Tijuana, MX @ Sexta House of Music 8/28 Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction 8/29 Phoenix, AZ…

…Up Your Video. (If you take issue with the “throwaway” label, I’ll see you in the parking lot.) The album in question, Addicted To Metal, is equally “dismissive wanking motion-able,”…

MS photographic wiz Jacqueline Cheng was on hand to catch alt-progsters Circa Survive’s opening set for Coheed & Cambria and Torche at Central Park on May 26th. Check out her…

Yesterday an anonymous reader e-mailed us to say that Parkway Drive’s new video, for the song “Sleepwalker,” is “FUCKING SICK!” He or she (but let’s face it, probably he) did…

…a new full-legnth, Ritual Abuse, with the great Sanford Parker, which Relapse expects to release in the fall. It seems highly unlikely that it won’t at least be an interesting…

…Wrest (a.k.a. “Leviathan,” Lurker of Chalice), Aaron Turner (Isis), Sanford Parker (Minsk), and Stavros Giannopoulos (The Atlas Moth). The hydra-headed (pun!) beast recently released their second LP, Monument To Time…

…wearing a straight-brim baseball cap and a Parkway Drive shirt: And I know it’s wrong to judge a book by its cover, and maybe I could forgive the hat, or…

…Hat Factory 8/08-Long Island, NY @ Crazy Donkey 8/09-Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony 8/10-Montreal, QC @ Club Soda 8/11-Buffalo, NY @ Xtreme Wheels 8/12-Pittsburgh, PA @ Ches Arena 8/13-Cleveland,…

…Madame Tussaud’s – the one in Times Square, ’cause believe it or not they have these fucking things all over the world – and pretended to be a wax statue…

…square peg into a round hole. The voices of those few people at the label who did understand the band were constantly drowned out in favor of the unknowing majority,…

…at their keyboards. According to an interview in Chordstruck Magazine, Wilson — who worked with Opeth on Blackwater Park — has finally begun writing material with Akerfeldt after years of…

…with his Corey Parks-shaped human shield; no one even stepped to Kerry King so I considered giving his tummy a two-handed jiggle. Resisting that temptation was easy cuz I value…

…work and ended there. A couple of days ago, on my way to meet a friend for dinner, as I got out of the elevator from the parking garage, I…

…ex-Dillinger Escape Plan drummer Chris Pennie, the Neverender series of shows and the thrill of playing Madison Square Garden. We only had fifteen minutes to talk before Stever was whisked…

…T and they’re relentlessly cheesy like that video of a choreographed wedding proposal in Washington Square Park, I think that I do. In case those heroes would be Def Leppard…

…glowing, wood assaulting metal alloys and mylar skins. Subsonic grit, larynx shatters the air; all captured, assembled, deconstructed, processed and reassembled. The new album has been created; Sanford Parker has…

…with the beknockered Corey Parks, Jerry Cantrell and Mike Inez gabbed with Dave Lombardo and Kerry King, and Alice Cooper hugged Dave Mustaine (and everybody else). The Testament guys were…

…with bassist Tara Johnson to a quiet spot in the Worcester Palladium parking lot to chat. So given all that, do you think you had a good set? It was…