TESTAMENT and Drummer GENE HOGLAN Part Ways
TESTAMENT has parted ways with its longtime drummer Gene Hoglan. The veteran San Francisco Bay Area metallers announced Hoglan’s exit from the group in a social media post earlier today.…
Battle Beast – Circus Of Doom (Album Review)
The ringmasters of Armageddon have arrived. Like cells dividing within a living system, the metal world has seen its fair share of band splits that result in two near identical…
JAN LISTING Discusses CHAOSBAY´s Latest EP “Boxes”: “Our Music Should Be An Exciting Experience . . . We Never Want To Bore Our Listeners
The fantastic progressive metal band Chaosbay returns with a new EP called “Boxes”. With it, the young German band continues to blur any border between genres, delivering a forceful EP that manages to…
CONCERT REVIEW: FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY Demolish Michigan in a Night of Earth Shattering Metal (January 6th, 2022)
Fit For An Autopsy’s tour package was everything you could want and need for an amazing show! Great American Ghost kicked off the show with a ton of energy that the crowd just soaked up. They played one of their newer songs, released in 2020, called “Altar of Snakes”; The crowd screamed back every single word to the band. Throughout…
TRIVIUM – “Deadmen and Dragons” Livestream Event (December 18th, 2021)
Nothing jump-starts the evolutionary process quite like pure, unabashed necessity, and it would be the understatement of the century to suggest that the events over the past 2 years have altered the way bands reach their audiences. Case and point, metal upstarts turned icons Trivium, whom managed to field a duo of highly impressive studio LPs in the midst of…
VIDEO PREMIERE: Brazilian Veterans NERVOCHAOS Shares Eclectic Yet Heavy New Single/Video “Dragged To Hell”
Following a string of singles released ahead of their upcoming new album, “All Colors Of Darkness”, Brazilian death metal mammoths NERVOCHAOS now unveil “Dragged To Hell”, their new song. With quite a few tempo and mood changes, “Dragged To Hell” shows NERVOCHAOS ’ most eclectic side, still extreme, still heavy as fuck, still dark, but allowing the song to breathe and injecting it some different atmosphere. Fed-up with the entire trend flooding the scene, NERVOCHAOS was born in São Paulo – Brazil in the spring of 1996, with the idea of creating aggressive and chaotic extreme music. The band gained cult status…
VIDEO PREMIERE: Canada’s CAVEAT Release Title-Track Off Upcoming Album “Alchemy”
Caveat have a new album coming out, their first since 2016 and they are fully intending to give their fans a very nuanced listening experience with “Alchemy”. Never content to pigeonhole themselves into a single genre or follow any conventional rules, through this album, they deliver an auditory adventure, a wide scope of twists and turns with a goal for the listener to consistently expect the unexpected throughout the listening experience. The title track “Alchemy” is one of the proggier songs on the album, and it shows off Amanda Marie Bourden’s powerhouse voice as well as Matt Petti’s incredible bass…
VIDEO PREMIERE: ANOXIA Drops Official Video for “Take Down The Mountains”
“I know your rehearsal facilities are shut down, all your concerts and festivals are canceled and the society is in total lockdown due to COVID19… But hey, how about writing a face-melting new heavy metal single, record it and send it to me ASAP?” said Anoxia’s Label CEO in early spring 2021. The words from the CEO and the challenge became an instant catalyst and a well-placed adrenaline injection for the band who was semi-hibernating due to COVID19 restrictions. Lars (Vocal/guitar) elaborates: “It was indeed a kick in the ass for the band and the whole process of creating the…
