Archive for May, 2013

May 9
Guest Column

Guest Column: Hardcore Lives By 96 Guitarist Pat DeFrancisci

Posted by Chris Harris on May 9, 2013 in Exclusive, Featured, Guest Column

So, we get offers all the time from people wanting to write guest columns, and most, we turn down. If we let everyone write for us, the columns we do have wouldn’t be as special. But when 96′s people reached out, asking if guitarist Pat DeFrancisci could pen something for us, we agreed. 96 are Read More

Mar 1
"I dropped my pen, toots"

Terror, Goatwhore Added To New England Metal & Hardcore Festival

Posted by Chris Harris on March 1, 2013 in News

They might as well just release the entire lineup already. It’s not like the bill doesn’t already fucking rule. You think adding Terror’s going to get some kid to go, “Wait one hot fucking second! I wasn’t sold until this Terror announcement. Fuck it, I’ll go.” At this point, people are either going or not Read More

Feb 1
Job For A Cowboy

Two More Bands Added To New England Metal & Hardcore Fest

Posted by Chris Harris on February 1, 2013 in News

Oh yes, folks. The New England Metal and Hardcore Festival keeps growing. Like that thing in your shorts. Keep taking those vitamins, and it’ll be a full three inches…from the GROUND! Job For A Cowboy and D.R.I. were both added to this year’s Metalfest bill. Metalfest goes down at The Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts, on Read More

Jan 23
Dillinger Escape Plan

Dillinger Escape Plan, Allegaeon Tapped For New England Metal & Hardcore Festival

Posted by Chris Harris on January 23, 2013 in News

Yup. One of the best metal festival’s in the U.S. of fucking A goes down each spring in Worcester, Massachusetts. The annual New England Metal and Hardcore Festival XV revealed today that a bunch of bands have been added to the already impressive bill. Which bands? How about Allegaeon, Alpha & Omega, Born Low, MurderDeathKill Read More

Nov 20
Guest Column

Guest Column: Three Bands You May Not Know About But Should By Psychostick’s Alex ‘Shmalex’ Dontre

Posted by Chris Harris on November 20, 2012 in Exclusive, Featured, Guest Column

You folks seemed to enjoy our last series of guest columns on five life-changing albums so much, we decided to reach out to our various friends in the metal world, asking that they write columns on a new topic. That topic? Three Bands You May Not Know About But Should, with a brief description of Read More

Apr 5
Black Breath

Sound And Fury Festival Lineup Announced

Posted by Chris Harris on April 5, 2012 in News

Jumping Jehovah on a pogo stick! The initial lineup for this year’s “Sound and Fury Festival” has been officially announced, and that’s rad…if you happen to live in California. It’s not a traveling fest, so you’ll need to go to Santa Barbara the weekend of July 20 through July 22 if you wanna go. Sound Read More