Last year's Rockstar Mayhem Festival saw the roving metal tour unleash a jaw-dropping lineup of legends that included the unholy triumvirate of Slayer, Motörhead, and headliners Slipknot presiding over a marauding metal militia of bands, fans, vendors and in some venues, jumping motorcycles. No shit. In addition to the two ...

 Darkthrone's newest release, The Underground Resistance, sees the multi-instrumental duo of Fenriz and Nocturno Culto return with middle fingers firmly extended towards the black metal orthodoxy, or for that matter, to anyone attempting to pigeonhole them as simply a black metal band. Yes, Darkthrone remain one of the most influential ...

Although Emmure released their full-length debut in 2007, the Queens-based deathcore purveyors spent five years attracting little notice beyond the tight confines of their increasingly-suffocating genre. All would change in 2012, when the band orchestrated two sprawling campaigns of Europe and the US, igniting a wildfire of popular and critical ...

Holy shit, has this been a crazy week. Arrived in London last week for a pair of monumental events in music history. First was the Download Festival at Castle Donington, somewhere up in the middle of the UK. Thanks to the generous intervention of the iconic scribe, Mr. Mick Wall, I ...

Metalheads know that the best thing about heavy metal is that the rules don’t apply to it. While classic rock is shackled with commercial measurements that are used to determine if an album is successful or not, metal not only ignores those formulas but its constant shifts make it impossible ...