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
You like metal, presumably. You are here, after all. Well, how’d you like some free metal and hardcore shit? Deathwish Inc. has you covered. The label and its distributed labels (Black Market Activities, React!, and Secret Voice, among others) have released a new spring digital sampler. The 26-track outing features songs from the likes of Read More
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
Holy crap, it worked! I kept hoping and praying these two bands would tour together, and lo and behold, I made it happen with the power of my super brain. I kid. I did not hope or pray these bands would tour. But it’s cool they are. Alas, they’re not hitting New York. Not yet, Read More
And the lineup’s meh. I’m just being honest. There is no reason for me to trek my chubby ass up to fucking Rochester for this lot! I kid. The bill is mostly crap, but there are some golden nuggets of awesome. Like Reign Supreme. Vehement Serenade, too. Beatdown Fest 2013 will take place on May Read More
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
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
The complete and final lineup for the East Coast Tsunami Fest 2012 has been announced. If you thought it was good before when we only knew half of the bands playing, just wait. Motherfucker got ten times better since then. Before, we knew bands like Sick of it All and Agnostic Front would be playing. Read More
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
Yessir — Killswitch Engage has been confirmed as the headliner of the 14th Annual New England Metal and Hardcore Festival. It’s fitting, as the festival helped to launch the career of the Westfield, Mass., band and the festival vets went on to sign with Roadrunner Records. “Yup, trouble’s brewing,” said frontman Howard Jones in a Read More