Metal playlists from the underground
By Shelton A. Sellers My, my how the times have changed. It used to be that you could sign up for the fan club of your favorite band, and whenever they rolled into town, you’d be the first one notified for their show. With the power of the internet at every American’s disposal, the days […]
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 […]
The Black Dahlia Murder’s Trevor Strnad has added guest vocals to a new song, “The Wraith”, by New York black metallers Viserion. The song is a crushing onslaught of raw black metal made even more powerful by the addition of Strnad’s voice. “The Wraith” is taken from Viserion’s upcoming album Natural Selection, which will be […]
A&E will premiere “Biography: The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne” on Labor Day (Monday, September 7) at 9:00 PM (ET/PT). The Biography special will trace the life of Ozzy from his childhood in poverty and time in prison, to fronting the iconic Black Sabbath and a successful solo career, to one of rock’s elder statesman […]
For the first time in five years the mighty Lamb of God delivers a fresh new album full of ferocious riffs and grooves that kill. The band is pushing the sick ass song “Gears” on all of its Release Radars. Listen to the standout single on Lamb of God’s Spotify Song Radio with bands like […]
The greatest heavy metal band in history is Black Sabbath and there is simply no disputing that. Sabbath are the true Godfather’s of heavy metal hailing from Birmingham, England. Their conquest of the universe began in 1968 and have in some way influenced every single band that you hear today. In our opinion, more significant […]
Ohio’s Close the Hatch released a monstrous cover of Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer.” This special single follows the release of the band’s Modern Witchcraft LP from May. “We want to record covers that represent our influences as musicians but in a way that feels like our material. It is our goal to have people view […]
BPMD, the iconic group of metal legends Bobby Blitz (Overkill), Mike Portnoy (The Winery Dogs, Sons of Apollo), Mark Menghi (Metal Allegiance) and Phil Demmel (Vio–lence, ex-Machine Head) are gearing up to release their debut album of 70s rock cover, American Made, tomorrow June 12th on Napalm Records. This week BPMD unveiled their third single, […]
Back when Vince Neil and Mötley Crüe parted ways, I was devastated. At that point (and still am) I was a certified Crüehead. At first when I heard the band was going to continue without Vince, I fell into a state of disbelief. Then it happened. John Corabi was in and to me it didn’t […]
Crnkshft released their self-titled EP and it’s a hard driving ass kicker. In fact, this band kicks so much ass that it frightened all of the vowels away. That’s pretty much the best, and only, way to sum up these four high octane tracks. “Systematic” leads off the mayhem with melodic hooks by frontman Shane “Shanr” […]