Following a record-breaking event in 2025 with 230,000 music fans in attendance, Welcome To Rockville returns to Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida on May 7-10, 2026 for its biggest year yet. Festival producer Danny Wimmer Presents is proud to unleash the full music lineup for the event’s 15th year. “Fifteen years in, Rockville […]
We’re probably never getting a new Daylight Dies record, so this is gonna have to be close enough! Daylight Dies guitarist Barre Gambling has teamed up with Tim Rowland (Woccon, Alchemy of Flesh) for a brand new band called Cold Communion. It’s all the gloomy melodic metal you’d expect, which hopefully we get to hear […]
After quite a long time of talking about it, Converge is set to release new material on November 19. Given that their website images have also been updated, I’m guessing there’s also an announcement of a new record (reportedly titled Love Is Not Enough) alongside the single. Converge also recently announced their inaugural Saddest Day […]
Before there was Black Sabbath, there was Earth – the blues rock band featuring everyone in Black Sabbath‘s original lineup. Former Earth manager Jim Simpson sent out a press release regarding a reissue of Earth‘s “lost” recordings under the compilation name Earth: The Legendary Lost Tapes, conspicuously right around when the Back To The Beginning […]
Pinkpop Festival has gradually begun releasing the official recordings of artists’ sets earlier this year, allowing fans to either relive, or witness, performances from Mastodon, Deftones, Sepultura, Korn, Rage Against The Machine, Rammstein, and so many more. Kicking off mid-summer time (mid-May), Pinkpop Archive’s official YouTube has been steadily uploading ‘vault’ videos once a day, […]
Young, passionate, thrash blood doesn’t come around often – shit, it hasn’t for how many years? – so when there’s fresh meat on the scene, it’s hard to keep your eye off it. Especially when the band are both performing at Louder Than Life, Welcome To Rockville, and Van’s Warped Tour, all while attending college […]
Young, passionate, thrash blood doesn’t come around often – shit, it hasn’t for how many years? – so when there’s fresh meat on the scene, it’s hard to keep your eye off it. Especially when the band are both performing at Louder Than Life, Welcome To Rockville, and Van’s Warped Tour, all while attending college […]
Grindcore, goregrind, pornogrind, cybergrind, deathgrind, blackgrind, powerviolence… it’s all basically unlistenable to the majority of people. But not you! You’ve got an appreciation for buzzsaw guitars, machine gun drumming and asylum-wailing vocals, so check out these underrated records from metal’s most nihilistic subgenre. Parlamentarisk Sodomi is Norwegian grindcore’s answer to Swedish crust and d-beat. Propelled […]
Ah yes, it’s time for our semi-annual Jason Newsted sighting. This time it’s Newsted joining Blackberry Smoke on stage at the State Theatre in Ithaca, NY during a November 13 show for a cover of Black Sabbath‘s “Children Of The Grave”. The cover is a ripper and really, it’s just awesome to see Newsted getting […]
This week’s new heavy metal releases include honking horn hardcore, World War 1 metal, well-read metalcore, and more! To the metals… 1914 – Viribus Unitus Genre: Blackened death metal/doomOrigin: Lviv, UkraineLabel: Napalm Buy now on Bandcamp Album number four from these World War 1 obsessed Ukrainians is another blackened beast. Like all their material, this one is […]
