According to a report from TMZ back in January, online personality and music journalist Matt Pinfield suffered a “massive stroke” earlier that same month. The report noted that Pinfield‘s daughter Jessica filed for a temporary conservatorship over Matt as she sorts out his finances and makes decisions on his health. However, now there’s some good […]
If anyone’s metal band needs a bassist, maybe you ought to call Taylor Swift‘s master of the low end Amos Heller. In a new video from bass company Dingwall, Heller shows off his stellar bass chops by ripping through Dream Theater‘s classic Awake track “Caught In A Web”. Which I guess isn’t too surprising, considering […]
Bewitcher‘s exclusive Decibel Magazine flexi series single “The Warrior Trail” is finally available on all streaming services. If you need an extra rager to add to your playlists today, then you stream “The Warrior Trail” right here. “The Warrior Trail” was recorded during Bewitcher‘s latest sessions for their Spell Shock record, produced by Rancid‘s Lars […]
Z2 has teamed up with the Vinnie Paul estate to bring the world Drumming Up An Appetite With Vinnie Paul. The book commemorates the memory of Vinnie’s legendary Sunday Funday dinners, features a foreword by comedian and friend Carrot Top, and is broken into three chapters – main courses (Reinventing The Meal), side dishes (Far […]
Zulu frontman Anaiah Rasheed Muhammad came under fire over the weekend as extensive allegations of abuse arrived online. Muhammad has since denied the allegations, though Zulu played without Muhammad on March 8 at the NDP Fest in São Paulo, Brazil while former Zulu drummer Dan Brown spoke out against the vocalist online. Now things have […]
Good news! Animals As Leaders is plotting the follow-up to their 2022 record Parrhesia. In an interview with Guitar World, Animals As Leaders mastermind Tosin Abasi said he’d like to spend a chunk of 2025 working on (and hopefully completing) the new record. “We are about to begin pre-production on an album,” said Abasi. “We […]
Sleep Token has been playing the long game with teasing their new material. It all really began on February 18 when Sleep Token unveiled a mysterious new website where you had to dig into the course code to unveil its true meaning. Then later that same month, there were Sleep Token-affiliated Instagram accounts named House […]
Mastodon just played their first show without Brent Hinds on March 9 at Tool‘s Live In The Sand festival in Punta Cana, and it seems they’ve recruited guitarist (and well-known YouTuber) Ben Eller for at least this one show. It’s not clear if Eller will continue on with the band, but hey – congrats to Eller! […]
Paradise Slaves may be a brand new band, but this isn’t the members’ first rodeo. The band’s dynamic lineup formed back in 2024, consisting of vocalist Brock Lindow (36 Crazyfists), guitarist Tyler Stroetzel (solo), guitarist Jon Kita (Diecast), bassist Brad Horion (Diecast), and drummer Ryan Manning (Pentagram, Blitzkid), and they didn’t waste time putting pen […]
For years, many have speculated about the true nature of Cradle Of Filth – whether it operates as a fully collaborative band or if it is, in essence, a Dani Filth solo project. In a new interview with Terry Palamara of Loud And Proud Italy, Filth, the band’s only remaining founding member, directly addressed these […]
