Metal playlists from the underground
The soundtrack to the highly anticipated superhero film Watchmen features classic cuts from Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, and KC and the Sunshine Band while My Chemical Romance offers a new track in the fast and catchy Dylan cover “Desolation Row.” “Desolation Row” opens the soundtrack with a brief and softly played organ […]
All the way from Indonesia comes long-running outfit Slank with ANTHEM FOR THE BROKEN HEARTED, the band’s first venture into recording an English-language album. This 10-track effort yields a gravel-throated but light-hearted hard rock affair that borrows as much from punchy pop-punk as it does from hair metal’s excess on cuts like “I Miss U […]
Digging through the vaults once again, eccentric Maryland metal squad Dog Fashion Disco have dug deep and have excavated 14 more tracks to share with the rest of its “mushroom cult” with BEATING A DEAD HORSE TO DEATH…AGAIN. Posting a noticeable presence in the underground metal scene thanks to their Faith No More meets System […]
Hard rockers Def Leppard, Poison, and Cheap Trick will be hitting the road together this summer for a 40 date US tour. Very interesting…who remembers Joe Elliot trash talking Poison last summer? 23-June Camden, NJ 25-June Cuyahoga Falls, OH 26-June Darien Center, NY 28-June Scranton, PA 30-June Mansfield, MA 01-July Holmdel, NJ 03-July Saratoga Springs, […]
The 2009 Mayhem Festival is gearing up to be one of this summer’s concert tour highlights with Slayer and Marilyn Manson playing the headlining role. Other featured metal bands include Bullet For My Valentine, Cannibal Corpse, Trivium, All That Remains, and The Black Dahlia Murder. Fri 07/10/09 Wheatland, CA Sleep Train Amphitheatre Sat 07/11/09 Mountain […]
Supplying seventy minutes of severe doom and drone, the latest effort by Asva is a sparse slow-churning affair that tries your patience more times than you can count before making good on resonating thick empiric riffs from the bowels of despair (“Christopher Columbus”). Interjecting odd nuances such as female choral vocals into its pitch black […]
Minneapolis punk trio Banner Pilot steps up with their second offering, the 12-track RESIGNATION DAY. Determined to keep sneering punk rock front and center, songs like “Saltash Luck” and “Wired Wrong” may suffer from sounding a bit too much like one another, yet ths troupe’s tried and true let it all hang out punk rock […]
Crüe Fest featuring Mötley Crüe is back for its second year this summer and will also include the following hard rock bands: Godsmack, Theory of a Deadman, Drowning Pool, and Charm City Devils. In addition, Mötley Crüe will perform their classic album Dr. Feelgood in its entirety on this tour. Sun. Jul 19 Camden, NJ […]
NYC artist Marthyn (or M. for short) pieces together a smorgasbord of jagged lo-fi juxtapositions, further developing this middle-ground musicians’s rulebending visions and unique style in the process on the 13-track IN ABSENTIA. Seemingly strung together from a bizarre crop of spoken word rants, woe is me electronic melancholy, mashed-up DJ grooves, artsy space folk, […]
At first acting as a side project for two of the members of Scar Symmetry before vocalist Christian Alvestam decided to leave the fold, Miseration explores a more extreme style more in tune with bands like Morbid Angel and the early years of In Flames on their nihilistic nine-track affair YOUR DEMONS-THEIR ANGELS. While there […]