I love Devin Townsend with a passion not seen by many. Everything the man releases is progressive, heavy as hell, and brilliant — the kind of records you can listen to from front to back. Last year’s Addicted was my pick for album of the year; if you haven’t heard it yet, you’re really depriving Read More
From First to Last — who, over the years, have lost their frontman Sonny Moore and featured Limp Bizkit’s Wes Borland on guitars — have gone on an indefinite hiatus. I was wondering what it was going to take to kill this group off. These stale pussy farts have always sucked and unfortunately, break-ups like Read More
How awesome would this video game have been? A title based on Adult Swim’s gore-laden cartoon series about Dethklok, the world’s most important death metal band — what could be better? Well, according to reports, the game wasn’t turning out so awesome. Metalocalypse: The Dethgame was being developed for the XBox live arcade and the Read More
When System of a Down broke up (because that’s what happened…hiatus my balls!), I was sad because I knew the rock world had lost a mammoth. I was also rather aware that no SOAD side project would ever live up to SOAD itself, and thus, System and its various components were no longer concerns of Read More
And dude, I must admit — so do I. After the jump, we have the uncensored version of the album cover for Dekadent’s forthcoming LP, Venera: Trial and Tribulation, and there’s vag on it. It’s a pretty vag, at that. Nice and compact. Reminds me of a certain someone from my past. But, I digress. Read More
Trivett Wingo is an awesome dude. He’s dangerously candid when he speaks, but that means he’s also brutally funny. The drummer for Austin, Texas-prog metal outfit The Sword (who I have been behind since the beginning, mind you) tells it like it is, with vivid descriptions and detail. Take his answer to one of my Read More
Wait…I’m confused. Not even two weeks ago, Joey Jordison — Slipknot’s lilliputian drummer — said that, despite the recent overdose death of bassist Paul Gray, there would one day be a new Slipknot record. Sure, dude never speculated on when the disc would be ready for mass consumption, but he never mentioned that they don’t Read More
Godsmack’s diminutive frontman Sully Erna is doing what I’ve wished for years he’d never do: Make more music. He insists on trying to be relevant and despite my best efforts (yes, I was the one who cut the breaks on his Hummer back in ’07), he continues to churn out audio puke that people in Read More
So, I was on Blabbermouth and spotted this piece about Ozzy Osbourne calling Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden a cunt. That’s a strong word, Ozzy. I just think Ozzy’s ego has reached maximum expansion. If I could only listen to Maiden or Ozzy solo records the rest of my life, guess what? I’m all over Read More
Weird — me and Max actually have something in common! So, Max Cavalera — the esteemed frontman for Soulfly who is perhaps better known for his work with Sepultura — was interviewed recently by PyroMusic (courtesy of Bravewords) and he says he’d think twice about using Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst on an album again, because…well, Read More