What’s your preferred style of hard rock? Would you rather ramp up the aggression with a block of rebellion songs or dig into the melancholic angst with songs dealing in heartbreak? That’s our battle this week in Chuck’s Fight Club for the Loudwire Nights radio show. On one side of the spectrum, there’s nothing to […]
Ghost will be bringing their Skeletour World Tour back around for another 20 North American shows early in 2026. The group is taking things indoors, preparing to pack arenas in the U.S. and Canada starting on Jan. 21 at the Kia Center in Orlando, Fla. The run will last for just over a month, concluding […]
Friends, family and industry veterans continue to share their memories of Ozzy Osbourne following his July 2025 passing. Specifically, Grammy-winning music producer Andrew Watt recently spoke to Rolling Stone about how Ozzy was “normal” the day before his death – making the tragic news “a great shock” – as well as about his deep bond […]
Avenged Sevenfold were set to launch their late 2025 South American tour this past Thursday (Sept. 25) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. However, they recently issued a statement revealing that the tour is being postponed to “early next year” due to a major health concern: frontman M. Shadows’ diagnosis of “a specific condition called a vocal […]
Despite the prevalence of addiction within the entertainment community, there are quite a few rockers who’ve been sober for 10 years or more. There isn’t a concrete statistic for how many musicians are affected by addiction but a report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in 2015 estimated that 12.9 percent of individuals […]
Here’s why Genesis abandoned prog rock for pop in the 1980s! Progressive rock was huge throughout the1970s, but as the music industry and the pubic gradually leaned into synth-pop, art pop and new wave during the dawn of the 1980s, so too did many genre foreberers. Undoubtedly, Genesis had the most radical – yet arguably most popular – reinvention. Just compare […]
These are the five most underrated shredders in death metal, chosen by Revocation‘s Dave Davidson. But first… What You Need to Know About Revocation From: Boston, Massachusetts First Album: Empire of the Obscene (2008) New Album: New Gods, New Masters (2025) revocation album artNew Gods, New Masters”/>Metal Blade Revocation have stood as a pillar of technical death metal […]
A Los Angeles court has entered their ruling over the police shooting of author Jillian Lauren Shriner, the wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner. Per The Los Angeles Times, the author, who goes under the pen name Jillian Lauren, will not be facing jail time over the incident that took place back in April of […]
It’s time to get to know Howl Owl Howl, the supergroup featuring a Rock Hall bassist, a Rock Hall-nominated drummer and the singer of 1995’s biggest selling album. The group is ramping up to a late fall tour in support of new music including their first single that’s arriving on Halloween. Who Are Howl Owl […]
What were the best hard rock albums of the 1980s? In this feature, we’re going to take you through the decade year by year and you’ll be able to see how the trajectory of the rock landscape changed over just a 10 year period. Though other forms of rock found their moments in the spotlight, […]
