Today, cult US heavy metal unit RIOT (V) unleashes their much-anticipated studio album Mean Streets via Atomic Fire Records! Their first studio album in six years delivers fifty-one minutes of sheer heavy/power metal glory. Bassist Don Van Stavern shares his thoughts on the new album: “We’re more than proud to finally present Mean Streets to the world!…
Heavy metal fans, prepare for the most electrifying tour of the year! Heavy metal frontrunners KK’S PRIEST – featuring Judas Priest alum and GRAMMY Award winning/nominated musicians K.K. Downing (guitar) and Tim “Ripper” Owens (vocals) – and Teutonic metal originators ACCEPT will join forces this fall 2024 for an unmissable North American tour! Both bands…
“A Thousand and One Nights – Chapter 1,” the latest from Letallis, is an engaging maze of moody metal that should go over quite well when looking to sate those Opeth fans hungry for more.
Unleash the chaos, Portland’s own metal titans ASCENDED DEAD are set to ravage North America with their colossal American Apocalypse 2024 Tour. Kicking off this inferno on May 3rd in Vancouver—marking their sole invasion into Canadian territory—the tour will blaze a trail of devastation. This month-long onslaught will crush the West Coast before storming east,…
CAVALERA has become synonymous with extreme metal music, a name that to this day still holds the highest regard, a family legacy built upon decades of musical aggression. In 2023, Max and Iggor Cavalera achieved what some would say was an impossible feat; they revisited their earliest releases, Morbid Visions, and Bestial Devastation, and re-recorded them with…
This Fall, the ‘Klash of the Titans‘ makes its triumphant return to North America! Fans will enjoy an epic night of metal with thrash royalty TESTAMENT and KREATOR co-headlining the run. The 33-date trek will kick off on September 12th in Reno making its way across the US and will include 7 Canadian dates before concluding in San Francisco…
Denver’s Masters of the metal NECROPANTHER return with a brand new EP, “Oblivion Jones: A Tale Of False Consciousness,” hitting shelves on May 1st. These guys are notorious for pushing the boundaries and fusing such genres as death, thrash, and black metal into face-melting riffs that would serve as the perfect accompaniment in a dystopian…
Forget everything you know about music festivals; 70000TONS OF METAL is setting the bar astronomically high. Picture this: lounging on a Caribbean island, sunbathing on a pristine white beach before you find yourself in a hot tub aboard a luxurious cruise ship, the Independence of the Seas. With the ocean breeze on your face, you’re…
Artist: Deicide Album: Banished By Sin Genre: Death Metal Release Date: April 26, 2024 Metal bands will often walk a tightrope: uncommon enough is longevity, and relevance is something very few manage. And, as always, there’s the rarest of exceptions that prevail not just against time but over their genre. Hailing from the bowels of…
Raymond Melendez