Metal playlists from the underground
Connecticut-based music blog Alternative Control will be releasing its third compilation album, Volume Doom, on February 22nd, 2019. This new comp reflects a more focused musical spotlight than previous releases Quality Control Vols. 1 & 2, featuring a mix of brand new, up-and-coming, and established bands in the doom, psych, and stoner rock/metal genres. Band […]
New York heavy rock ‘n’ roll outfit DemonScar is set to unleash their thrashing new single “(Don’t Wanna) Sleep No More” on Friday, January 4, 2019. The track is heavily inspired by the band’s passion for classic horror films; in this case, it’s the Nightmare on Elm Street series. In November 2018, the band released […]
PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS will spend much of 2019 road bound beginning with a handful of Latin American dates in January and February. The following month, the band will make their way to Australia and New Zealand for the Thrash Blast Grind tour with Australian grind unit and Housecore Records labelmates King Parrot. […]
Bay Area death cult, NECROT, have announced ten additional shows this winter with their space-obsessed comrades in Denver’s Blood Incantation. The performances will take place through February and March during off dates of the eighth annual Decibel Magazine Tour featuring Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Immolation, and Blood Incantation. The tour follows NECROT’s appearance at the […]
BASILYSK is a Philadelphia-based death metal four piece who play an unrelenting style of old school brutality with a progressive twist, that will appeal to fans of Morbid Angel, Death, Dissection and Outer Heaven. Formed by vocalist and maniacal guitarist Josh Perrin, Basilysk released their first album Seasons of Misanthropy in 2012. The band reignited […]
Just over a year since releasing the split EP Devil’s Night To All Souls with fellow Swede Blissful Stream, Lightsabres looks to finish 2018 with a bang: the one-man stoner grunge outfit is due to release its sophomore album “A Shortcut to Insanity” on December 30th. Ever the prolific artist and composer, Lightsabres mastermind John […]
Gears of Rock is pleased to announce its #1 heavy metal album of 2018. The top honor goes to the legendary Judas Priest with the release of Firepower. Amazing record all around 🤘
Dinosaurs and genre purists beware – 2019 is poised to be the year of Pterodactyl Problems. Reuniting a couple of years ago after a 5 year absence, the Torontonian quartet of musical lifers have put their heads together and crafted Esoteric Hobbies, “probably the best musical project we’ve been a part of, and definitely the […]
Broadly speaking, bands that fall under the umbrella term of riff-worshippers – encompassing stoner, doom, and sludge metal – can fall under one of two categories. The majority of bands are content to walk (high as a kite) through the hills and valleys of their forefathers. A few, however, endeavor to take the tools that […]
Judas Priest – the metal gods, the pioneers, the definitive classic British heavy metal band – delivered a scorching set at Long Island’s Nassau Coliseum. The band unleashed new tracks from 2018’s Firepower and songs that spanned their 40+ year career. Frontman Rob Halford belted out his lines in peak form while founding bassist Ian […]