Pinkshift‘s previous releases have always lingered comfortably in the riotgrrrl sound, encompassing messy vocals and full-throttled riffs but their newest single, “Evil Eye,” shifts – or rather, takes a hard left – towards raunchy, angry metal. Frontwoman Ashrita explains of the track, “The year is 2025: we are living in the age of mass surveillance, […]
Bassist Olivier Pinard has quit Cattle Decapitation to focus more on Cryptopsy. Pinard played bass for Cattle Decapitation between 2018 and 2025, and has been in Cryptopsy since 2011. Cattle Decapitation has since recruited Diego Soria of Broken Hope as their live bassist, who you’ve already seen if you attended any of the Chaos And […]
Puddle Of Mudd is back and boy I wish they weren’t. At least not with this song. Puddle Of Mudd is now streaming their new single “Beautimous” which I’m pretty sure is about butt sex and getting out of prison. I don’t even know where to start with these lyrics because oh my god, they’re […]
Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard have teamed up for a brand-new destination festival in Riviera Maya, Mexico. The festival is called Rock The Tides, it’s happening in November 2025, and unfortunately you will have to see Mötley Crüe live if you’re attending. Sorry in advance. Def Leppard is excellent, though. The rest of the lineup […]
Blood Monolith – the new band featuring guitarist and vocalist Shelby Lermo (Nails, Ulthar, ex-Vastum), guitarist Tommy Wall (Undeath), bassist Nolan (Genocide Pact, Shitstorm) and drummer Aidan Tydings-Lynch (Deliriant Nerve, Brain Tourniquet) – is now streaming their second vicious single “Apparatus”. Though I’m not sure which is more violent here – the song itself, or […]
Aborted and longtime drummer Ken Bedene have split after 15 years. Details are scarce right now outside the below statement from Aborted, which notes that Bedene is out “effective immediately” and is replaced by former Benighted drummer Kévin Paradis. Bedene has not yet commented on the situation, though the “effective immediately” bit probably can’t mean […]
Ozzy Osbourne returned to touring in 1996 after a brief retirement from the road. The tour was aptly named The Retirement Sucks Tour and featured – among others – Fear Factory as one of the openers. In a recent interview with the Everblack podcast, former Fear Factory vocalist Burton C. Bell said the European Ozzy […]
After a seven-year wait, Gruesome – the old-school death metal band inspired by the legendary Chuck Schuldiner and the many iterations of Death – are kicking things into gear with the announcement of their new album, Silent Echoes, set for release on June 6, 2025, via Relapse Records. The first glimpse into the record comes in the form […]
Longtime The Acacia Strain drummer Kevin Boutot suddenly left the band in 2023 after nearly 20 years. Boutot was replaced by Matt Guglielmo, though it was never clear why Boutot suddenly left. Now in an interview with the Riff Tacos Podcast, Boutot explained that being away from his young daughter simply got to be too […]
If you’ve ever wondered what Metallica‘s 1986 instrumental “Orion” would sound like if it was written by Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland, here it is! Or at least a short snippet. It’s pretty cool to see Borland take the melodies that we’re all super familiar with as metal fans, and rework it as if it […]
