Fuck Minsk! I have never wanted to visit Minsk, and now, never will. Reports claim the Prosecutor General’s Office has banned Swedish black metal band Marduk from playing a show in Minsk, Belarus. Pavel Radzivonaw, a departmental head at the Prosecutor General’s Office, told reporters on Monday that Marduk’s concert, scheduled for May 22, would Read More
This, I could miss. The lineup for this year’s Riot Fest and Carnival in Chicago has been announced. The fest will take place on September 14 through September 16 at Humboldt Park and Congress Theater. Tickets will cost you $18 per day, with multi-day passes temporarily available for $36. More bands will be added to Read More
German thrashers Dew-Scented have revealed their new lineup. Leif Jensen, the band’s vocalist, is the only original member. The band also now includes guitarists Rory Hansen and Marvin Vriesde, bassist Joost van der Graaf (didn’t he kill some chick in Aruba?), and drummer Koen Herfst. “I’m more than proud to be able to present you Read More
This isn’t cool. At all. I liked Aborted the way they were. I didn’t want my Aborted changing at all. It’s being reported that bass player J.B. Van Der Wal has left the band. Nothing’s been formally announced, and there’s no word yet on why J.B. bounced.
If you want to hear a new Baroness tune, head to the end of this post right now. The song is called “Take My Bones Away,” and while it doesn’t sound like anything from Red or Blue, I wouldn’t want that. Bands have to evolve, folks. Don’t be such whiny bitches about them going soft. Read More
That’s the word, folks. Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland tells ABC News Radio that he’s reunited with Velvet Revolver…just a week after saying he’d be down to get back with the band that canned his ass years ago. “We’ve all grown a lot,” explains Weiland. “We’re able to put egos and differences and old… Read More
We never could have imagined when we started this column some months ago that we had such a talented fucking following. Some of our readers’ bands are fucking tight, vicious, and straight-deadly. One such band is Dudley, Massachusetts’ Naegleria. Hard to both spell and announce, Naegleria specialize in death grind, and have a CD out Read More
My word, do I have a lot of shit on my plate. This site, my day job, the personal errands, the accounting, the pressure that comes with all that…it can be exhausting. I have been sleeping a lot lately, and feeling generally blah. I have a feeling it may have something to do with all Read More
Mark it on your Victoria’s Secret Angels calendar, you dolphin flogger. It seems the cat’s out of the bag. What cat? The cat that knew when the new Periphery album would be in fucking stores. That cat. Thanks to a new print ad, we’ve learned that Periphery’s forthcoming LP will be in stores July 3 Read More
In 2010, Ihsahn — the former frontman for the almighty Emperor — released what would end up being one of the year’s best albums: After. What struck me about the release, initially, was how brilliantly they wove jazz saxophone into a crushing, dismal progressive metal record. Ihsahn’s forthcoming follow-up, Eremita, is just as brilliant an Read More