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Epic battles to the death. A vengeance-fueled storyline. Crazy violent set pieces. All taking place during a period piece directed by one of the greatest auteurs of our time. You get all of that when you sit down to watch Ridley Scott’s 2000 classic, Gladiator. With the sequel recently making the rounds in theaters and…
Sometimes when we put together one of these polls, it’s pretty easy to guess where you guys are going to go. I mean, it was pretty easy to see that most of our readers were going to come out pretty firmly against A.I. in metal, for example. So when I put together this past weekend’s…
There’s an old quote, attributed to several different writers, including Dorothy Parker and Robert Louis Stevenson, which says “I hate to write, but I love to have written” meaning that the process of writing is grueling but the final product is much more satisfying. Similarly there’s a quote that Kurt Vonnegut attributed to Renata Adler…
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Every time we write about Corrosion of Conformity, you guys get super hyped. And I get it, man — that band’s been putting out great music for decades, so when we learned they were working on their follow up to 2018’s No Cross No Crown, you bet your ass I was right there with you…
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Creed’s recent reunion last year must have been a really big deal to, I don’t know, people who peaked in high school and graduated in 2002? I can’t quite understand who would be so excited about a Creed reunion, but apparently there’s a subsection of the population who are really, really into the song “Higher.”…
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Mick Thomson has got some hands on him, that’s for sure. The Slipknot guitarist, “#7,” is so precise and technical, which makes watching him perform fucking awesome. And because he is so awesome, he just got his own LTD MT-I signature guitar with ESP. He debuts it in the intro video below. Thomson’s LTD MT-I…
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It sucks so fucking bad that everything is still so horrible. Los Angeles is still on fire. People are still experiencing some of the worst shit ever in there lives. Everything sucks. What’s kinda cool though, is that Spiritbox as organized a charity raffle to help raise money for those affected by all of the…
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Ugh. Just, ugh. Graveyard Rodeo and also the world lost a damn good one in Wayne “Doobie” Fabra, who died on January 15. He was only 58 years old. 🙁 The OG drummer was part of an institution in New Orleans metal. Graveyard Rodeo, which also featured Corrosion of Conformity and Down’s Pepper Keenan, was…
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A black cloud of familiar drama has been hanging over SeeYouSpaceCowboy for a few days now, all because men are men and do shitty things. I don’t necessarily mean this to be a blanket statement but, just look at the numbers. Anyway, the band’s frontlady Connie Sgarbossa has been quite vocal about SYSC’s support of…
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Snot was pretty hush-hush when it came to who their new singer would be for their spate of reunion shows. They wanted the unveiling to be a complete surprise, saying that the new singer was only going to be revealed once he stepped on the stage. Well, that happened last night at the band’s January…
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Here we are again with another entry in Obscura‘s accusatory saga. This past week has been sprinkled with bits of drama between the band’s former and current members. First, their old guitarist Christian Münzner accused current Obscura songwriter/guitarist/vocalist Steffen Kummerer of stealing whole-ass riffs and sections from the band Exist to use on their latest…
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Earlier this week, Exodus made the shocking announcement that they and long-time vocalist Steve “Zetro” Souza were parting ways. It’s probably safe to say that no one outside of the band saw that coming at all, but even less expected was the fact that the band reunited with Rob Dukes to fill the now vacant…
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The full lineup for this year’s Rock Fest was released earlier today and it’s absolutely loaded. For three days this July, attendees will be able to hang out and enjoy days full of music, headlined by Rob Zombie, Five Finger Death Punch, and Bad Omens. But the rest of the bill’s got some killer acts…
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You know that GIF that shows Matt Damon transforming into an old man from that movie Saving Private Ryan? That’s how I feel right now thanks to the fact that Disturbed‘s debut album The Sickness is turning 25 years old this year. It doesn’t feel like a quarter century since that released, but 2000 was…
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Escuela Grind will kick off a short slate of tour dates starting next month that includes support from Chain Gang and Decayer. Set to kick off on February 16 in Pensacola, Florida and coming to a close on March 2 in Chicago, the tour will also make stops in Dallas and Austin, Texas, Denver, and…
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Hours after footage of As I Lay Dying‘s Tim Lambesis hitting his dog surfaced online, his soon to be ex-wife Dany Ciara released a statement outlining the abuse she’s experienced at his hands. Which isn’t too much of a shocker to read because… well… he’s been too much of a piece of garbage for too…
Earlier today, death metal stalwarts 200 Stab Wounds took to Instagram to hit their fans in the face with a one-two punch of possible teases of new material. Sure, they released Manual Manic Procedures this past June, but that doesn’t mean our boys from Ohio can’t churn out the brutality for something new in 2025….
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Castle Rat might look and sound like they’d fit right into the background of a Dio music video, but they’re actually a fantasy doom metal band hailing from the mystical lands of Brooklyn, New York. For the first time ever, they’re getting all of the spotlight as they announced their first-ever headlining tour earlier today….
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This year’s iteration of Hell’s Heroes Festival is only two months away and earlier today the folks behind it all released the daily lineups, giving everyone that’s already got a ticket — and you jokers that can make it out that yet haven’t already gotten a ticket — an idea of how shit’s going to…
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It’s been a long time coming, but Snot is about to play their first show since Lynn Strait’s death in 1998 tomorrow. Though there’s still a ton of mystery surrounding who they’ve got handling vocals this time around, there’s one thing that’s for certain — fans around the world will be able to catch at…
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Trailblazer. Visionary. Icon. There are so many words that honestly could describe the filmmaking career of David Lynch. Sadly, the auteur known for crafting wildly odd, yet strangely familiar pieces of surrealist art like Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet has passed away at 78 years old. News of his passing was made public in a…
Earlier today, He Is Legend revealed their plans for the ‘I Am Hollyweird’ U.S. tour that’s set to kick off this April. Coming along will be Cancer Bats and Strawberry Girls on every stop on the tour, while Crush++ will open the first half and The Requiem will open the second half. The tour will…
A legal dispute between former bandmates has boiled over into the court system, as members of both slam/brutal death metal outfit PeelingFlesh and deathcore band Orphan battle over who owns the name of their old band. Filed last month on December 3 by Jacob and Josh Mathes, the duo behind Orphan, the case alleges that…
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Millennials may be getting older, but that just means that ‘90s nostalgia is even more lucrative than it’s ever been because now they’ve got more money to spend. Bush, who were one of the biggest bands to come out of grunge’s second wave in the ‘90s, announced the latest leg of their “Loaded” tour for…
Legendary Bay Area thrash metal outfit Exodus announced in an Instagram post this afternoon that they and longtime vocalist Steve “Zetro” Souza were parting ways. It was a move that I’m pretty sure no one outside of the band’s camp saw coming, but the fact that they reunited with former frontman Rob Dukes might be…
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New Zealand groove metal outfit Alien Weaponry are back with a new full-length release set to come out on March 28 via Napalm Records, titled Te Rā. It’s their third studio effort and their follow-up to 2021’s Tangaroa. As metal’s prime representatives of the Māori, New Zealand’s indigenous population, Alien Weaponry look to continue advocating…
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Just when you thought the initial story was bad enough, we’re back with an update from yet another former Obscura member that’s calling out his former band for allegedly stealing music. In a recent post on his Facebook page, ex-Obscura guitarist Christian Münzner called out guitarist/vocalist Steffen Kummerer — who I’m pretty sure he hilariously…
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Not content to just do their shows as the opening act for Disturbed and Daughtry, Nothing More announced a number of headlining shows that’ll fill out their already lengthy itinerary. With the added dates, that means their run on the road will go from March 28 in Chattanooga, Tennesee with a headlining show and come…
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Tommy Lee’s unshowered ass might want to get off his high horse, because in a recent post on his Instagram, he called out other artists for posting on social media and promoting their shit while Los Angeles continues to burn. “Makes me fucking sick to see most people just caring on a posting on lame…
Progressive death metal outfit Rivers of Nihil will be bringing their ‘The Aggressive Progressive Tour’ to North America later this spring nearly a month after their run in Europe is set to come to an end. Slated to kick off on May 22 in Philadelphia and coming to a close on June 22 in Toronto,…
There’s been a long running problem in the metal community that I know myself and a number of my contemporaries have called out for years now — bad fans. We’re not saying all of us (you) fans are bad people who do a piss poor job of interacting with the genre, it’s just that a…
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The Ozzman may be in his golden years and the possibility of him ever touring again may be a thing of the past, but that doesn’t mean the music we already have will ever go away. Case and point is the fact that decades after their release, two major Ozzy Osbourne tunes have made their…
It’s going to take a long time before we truly understand the impact and economic devastation that’s fallen upon the Los Angeles area thanks to the ongoing fires that continue to show no sign of slowing down. As countless people are forced to evacuate their homes and the death toll sadly rises, organizations have been…
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Earlier today, the industrial metal outfit Fear Factory announced that they’ll be marking the 30th anniversary of Demanufacture by playing it in its entirety at most of their stops at European festivals this coming summer. There were a lot of killer albums that came out in 1995, so I’m sure it don’t be the only…
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Touring can be really rigorous and hard to keep up with. I don’t really blame any band for needing to take time off from touring for the sake of their mental health. And I think I can really understand why electronicore band I See Stars have had to cancel a bunch of shows due to…
Some new information about the forthcoming Mastodon record should get fans of their more experimental efforts excited, as it sounds like the Atlanta-based band will be taking some liberties with tier follow up to 2021’s Hushed And Grim. While speaking with Metal Hammer, drummer and vocalist Brann Dallor revealed some details about the album the…
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You know what? Props to Breaking Benjamin, who have stayed in the either for like two decades. They’re finally back again with some new music—their first since 2018’s Ember—in the form of a new single called “Awaken.” Give it a listen below. “Awaken” marks the band’s debut in their new label home of BMG, since…
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Considering how Kerry King let everyone and their mom know that Slayer won’t be doing shit together for the foreseeable future, it makes since how the guitarist would want to triple jump his ass to whatever show he can get to with his new solo band. They’re heading out on a headlining North American tour…
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Memphis May Fire was spewing out singles like it was going out of style. Turns out they wanted to surprise us with a new album called Shapeshifter that’s supposed to come out in a couple of months. Now they’re sharing the new single and video for the track “Overdose,” which features Blindside‘s vocalist Christian Lindskog,…
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Sure, the tragic, devastating, fiery hell happening in Los Angeles isn’t as close to Anaheim as people might think. Parts of LA are only about 45 minutes away on a good day, but that doesn’t mean these Orange County fools are that safe from the catastrophe so many others are experiencing. The Santa Ana Winds…
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