Sammy Hagar and James Hetfield announce fourth annual ‘Acoustic-4-A-Cure’ Concert

Sammy Hagar and James Hetfield announced the date and lineup for the Acoustic-4-a-Cure IV annual benefit concert. It returns to the Fillmore in San Francisco on May 15th. Due to Metallica’s tour, Dave Grohl will be sitting in for James Hetfield. The event will showcase veteran and newcomers including Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, Don Felder, […]

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Listen to this guy growl over a Steppenwolf cover on Quebec’s ‘The Voice’

Last week, some dude was on Quebec’s version of The Voice, and his rendition of Necrophagist’s “Stabwound” actually got him picked to move forward. Louis-Paul Gauvreau returned this past week, and instead of singing German death metal, this week he did a duet on Steppenwolf’s “Born to be Wild.”  We prefer Slayer’s cover of the song, […]

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Queens of the Stone Age are done recording their new album

2017 is shaping up to be one hell of a year for new music. We’ve got Ghost to look forward to, Mastodon are coming out with a new album on Friday, more Nine Inch Nails is a possibility, and apparently, Queens of the Stone Age have finished their seventh album. Let There Be Talk podcaster Dean […]

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Ghost to headline around Iron Maiden shows

Ghost are one of the most popular new metal bands of the last decade. The Grammy-winning, #1 active rock song-having Swedish quintet (that just might have an almost entirely new lineup) have a hell of a summer planned as well, as they’ll be opening for Iron Maiden all summer long. As if opening for one of […]

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Every Time I Die get the Disney banhammer

It’s been a while since Disney has brought down the hammer and banned a group from playing at it’s House of Blues locations in Disney World and Disney Land in Orlando and Anaheim, respectively. Just yesterday, when reminiscing about Machine Head’s The Blackening turning 10, we referenced them being banned. Letlive., Exodus, Skeletonwitch and Thy Art is […]

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Metallica shares pro footage of “Halo on Fire” from their ‘Lollapalooza Brasil’ performance

Metallica brought Hardwired….To Self-Destruct to Lollapalooza Brasil over the weekend (25) in São Paulo, Brazil. The band shared their own footage of the “Halo on Fire” performance that kicked off right before Rob Trujillo’s bass solo. Check out the clip below: Setlist: “The Ecstasy of Gold” “Hardwired” Intro “Hardwired” “Atlas, Rise!” “For Whom the Bell Tolls” “The […]

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Power Trip’s “Executioner’s Tax (Swing of the Axe)” video is next best thing to seeing them live

If you’ve gotten a chance to see Power Trip live, you can attest to the manic energy of their live set. The band’s just-released video for “Executioner’s Tax (Swing of the Axe)” is the next best thing to being at one of their shows. Shot at a hometown show in Dallas, and directed by the […]

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Miss May I tease new album, announce tour

It hasn’t even been a full two years since Miss May I’s last album, Deathless, but the metalcore quintet is already teasing their 6th studio album, Shadows Inside. This will be the band’s first release through the new label Sharptone Records after leaving Rise Records in June of 2016. A brief teaser was posted on the […]

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Ne Obliviscaris are in the studio, European dates cancelled

Australian progressive metallers Ne Obliviscaris are finally in the studio to record their third studio album, a follow-up to 2014’s Citadel. The band’s intended schedule was pushed back due to lineup changes after parting ways with bassist Brendan ‘Cygnus’ Brown for “irreconcilable personal differences.”  The change wasn’t taken lightly, as it affected their upcoming European tour originally […]

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Code Orange hitting the road in Europe with System of a Down

You can say a lot of things about System of a Down, who are apparently coming out with a new album this year. One thing you can’t say about them is that they’re a bargain basement deathcore band. That means that Code Orange are clear to tour with them, as they don’t like touring with […]

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Kids reacting to Nirvana is cute, depressing, uplifting

If you’re an eight year-old, not only is Nirvana almost an abstract thought, rock music in general is something you might not be so up on. If you think about that going into the latest “Kids React To” series from Fine Bros. Entertainment, that’s somewhat of a chilling thought. It seems like a given to get […]

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Update: Blackest of the Black festival continues without Fear Factory

On Sunday (26) Danzig revealed the lineup for the Blackest of the Black festival on Whiplash the KLOS radio show hosted by Full Metal Jackie. We were excited to hear the news including the initial 18 bands. However, with the new flyer and the official announcement, it seems Fear Factory has dropped off the festival. […]

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Happy 10th anniversary to Machine Head’s ‘The Blackening’

It wasn’t like Machine Head was in a bad place in 2007, it’s just that they’d lost some momentum some 13 years into their career. Their third album, 1999’s The Burning Red, found the band flirting with rap-metal and lost them some audience, kind of similar to what happened with Suicide Silence earlier this year (come to […]

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Here’s a metal bagpipe version of the Power Rangers theme song

You might remember Archy Jay,  aka The Snake Charmer, from her metal bagpipe metal medley of Lamb of God tunes we wrote about last year. The medley, done with guitarist/producer Daran Katiyar, was extremely well-done, and the fact that a woman was playing bagpipes didn’t make it any less metal. Yesterday, The Snake Charmer returned, this […]

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Couple gets engaged during Power Trip’s So What? set

This past weekend, the So What?! Music Festival took place in Grand Prairie, TX. Among the many bands playing were The Last Ten Seconds of Life, Attila, Emmure, After the Burial, Sworn In, Every Time I Die, Norma Jean and The Grindmother. Power Trip, playing their home state, would have been one of the bands […]

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The Acacia Strain’s ‘Gravebloom’ is flowering in June; here’s a new song

A year after being recorded, The Acacia Strain’s 8th album, Gravebloom, will finally be released. Teaser videos for the album began surfacing around a week ago with the caption, “#gravebloom” and flashed the crescent moon logo that appeared on the band’s previous album, Coma Witch. The video was shared by many bands and musicians including […]

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More bands added to New England Metal and Hardcore Fest; we’re giving away passes!

Have you picked up your tickets to the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival yet? The 19th annual incarnation of the fest is pretty stacked, with Testament, Sabaton, Sepultura, Katatonia, Prong, Hammerfall and a ton more are playing the Worcester, MA festival, which takes place on April 21st and 22nd at the Palladium. But they […]

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Show yourself what a good colorer you are if you buy Mastodon vinyl

Adult coloring books are all the rage, and even members of bands (like Life of Agony’s Alan Robert) are getting in on the trend. A great way to relieve stress while reminding yourself that as important as you are, you were a kid once could be why they’ve gained so much popularity in recent years. […]

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Black Dahlia Murder’s Trevor Strnad said he’d expect Suicide Silence backlash

With Suicide Silence’s self-titled album getting trashed as much as the band’s instruments have lately, everyone’s got an opinion on their transition from deathcore to nu-metal, and many of them aren’t good ones. However, given that the band made the album they wanted to make and have no apologies for it, when their friends and […]

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Korn’s ex-keyboardist looks like he’s seen a Ghost

Anyone know the name Zac Baird? You probably wouldn’t unless you’re a big Korn fan, but he might have just become even more nameless. There have been a handful of hints dropped on his social media that he just might be a new member of Ghost. The band, who are rumored to have only one […]

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