Editor’s Note: Longtime reader Remi VL is a regular guest contributor to our Release Day Roundup posts! He submitted several of the albums listed below. Join his Facebook group for more recommendations. Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday release days open the floodgates and…
Heavy Pod Is Heavy Cast! This week we have some news and announcements. The black metal poser who burned a church, Megadeth frontman Mustaine’s throat cancer, Facebook’s prevention of The Ocean monetizing their climate change-related video, Slipknot and Five Finger Death Punch launching new lines of products, Borknagar and Insomnium having new releases coming up, and Unprocessed. Then, cool people time with Neon Genesis Eva-GET IN THE ROBOT SHINJI, The Terror, and Charles Stross’s Laundry Files series. Enjoy!
Listening back to Whitechapel’s much-maligned 2016 record, Mark of the Blade, I’m finding it difficult to discern exactly what I’m meant to dislike about it. Am I meant to resent it for being a watered-down continuation of the groove-heavy sound the band had developed over their past two albums? Or…
The last couple of Parkway Drive records have seen the Byron Bay quintet branching out in several different directions. Although these experiments have been largely successful the band have found themselves lacking the coherence shown on their early releases, and it’s felt for a while that what they’ve been sorely…
In an age when an embattled music industry has sucked up hit after hit, record labels and their artists have found solace in the art of advertising. A brash band t-shirt, a solid tour slot, an enticing line of blurb, one fanatical album review in the right place and a strong social media presence.
Earlier this week, we shared photos from this year’s Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival featuring Amon Amarth, Battlecross, Born of Osiris, Butcher Babies, and Children of Bodom via regularly contributing photographer Maclyn Bean. Today we finish the photo sets with Emmure, Five Finger Death Punch, Job For A Cowboy, Machine…
The Mayhem Fest lineup has been announced, and it’s looking pretty good.
In case you weren’t watching last night, the Revolver Golden Gods Awards was pretty much an embarrassment. I had to stop watching on the second award; as if seeing Black Veil Brides win guitarists of the year (ugh), seeing Tomas Haake (Meshuggah) and Brann Dailor (Mastodon) lose to that…
Jamey Jasta Jasta 01. Walk That Path Alone 02. Mourn The Illusion 03. Screams From The Sanctuary 04. Nothing They Say 05. Anthem Of The Freedom Fighter 06. Something You Should Know (feat. Phil Labonte) 07. Set You Adrift 08. Enslaved, Dead, or Depraved (feat. Randy Blythe) 09. With A…
