Artist: Maylene and The Sons of Disaster

I'm going to put about as much effort into this introduction as the writers of The Artist put into that movie's dialogue. First up we have Anthrax's new video, for "The Devil You Know." The song is catchy as heckfire, but it's really just a boring clip video, with a bunch of footage of shit the [...]

The release year is winding down. Aside from new Megadeth and Animals as Leaders records, I think we're pretty much done with bigtime new albums until 2012. The #1 record on the Current Hard Music chart last week came from a band whose music it'd be a stretch to call "hard." Click through to find [...]

I'm officially making the switch from the Top Hard Music chart to the Current Hard Music chart for the purposes of this column. While it's interesting to see what classic Metallica and Aerosmith albums are charting and I still may occasionally reference the former, the latter chart paints a much clearer picture of the modern [...]

Thursday looks to be pretty busy over the holiday season.

HUGE drop of new releases this week including much-anticipated new records from Mastodon and Machine Head, as well as a ton of excellent other stuff from Craft, Dead In The Dirt, Landmine Marathon and more. My release reviews are a bit shorter than usual just due to the sheer volume of material coming out this [...]

Hard rock innovators Maylene and the Sons of Disaster will release their long-awaited new album Maylene and the Sons of Disaster: IV on September 27, 2011 via Ferret Music. Produced by Brian Virtue ( Jane's Addiction , Deftones, Audioslave), the LP shines a spotlight on this celebrated band's virtuosic prowess and depth of musical identity. The striking cover art for Maylene and the Sons of Disaster: IV was designed by Forefathers Group (Children of Bodom, In [...]

Yes, we know we didn't get to make our big announcement this week. Don't worry - we're just ironing out a few final details. It's still happening. And we're confident we'll get to tell you next week. In the meantime, here's how we occupied ourselves these past five days: We debuted new music by Ghost [...]

Maylene and the Sons of Disaster aren't really a metal band anymore even though they still tour with heavy bands that are much closer to their old metalcore sound. Modern-day Maylene sounds more like Clutch than, say, The Showdown, another band in their scene who heavily incorporate a "southern" rock sound into their metal. Axl [...]

Hard rock supergroup The Damned Things have announced dates for the Inked Music Tour . Southern metalcore group Maylene and The Sons of Disaster will join them as support.

In the second half of James Monteith's TesseracT US tour blog he talks about numerous band fails, doing a runner from Las Vegas and offered sex with a bloke's wife.

5/20 Reading, PA @ Reverb 5/21 Norfolk, VA @ The Norva 5/23 Charleston, SC @ Music Farm 5/24 St. Petersburg, FL @ State Theatre 5/25 Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room 5/26 Jacksonville, FL @ Free Bird Live 5/27 Raleigh, NC @ Lincoln Theatre 5/28 Greenville, SC @ The Handlebar 5/29 Huntington, WV @ V [...]

James Monteith of Tesseract checks in with his 3rd column. He's on tour in the USA and he tells us about meeting fans, shooting bands and ALBUM NUMBER TWO!

TesseracT guitarist James Monteith writes his second column for Thrash Hits and it's about his travels through Austin, Texas for South By South West. PUKER!

It's always refreshing when bands are as good live as they are on record - it's a silly thing to have to say, but it's a necessary thing to point out in these ProTools happy times - and this especially holds true for vocalists. Growlers are a dime a dozen, and even in the live [...]

It's always refreshing when bands are as good live as they are on record - it's a silly thing to have to say, but it's a necessary thing to point out in these ProTools happy times - and this especially holds true for vocalists. Growlers are a dime a dozen, and even in the live [...]

Maylene and the Sons Of Disaster have revealed the dates for its upcoming U.S. mini-tour. you can view the full list of dates, cities and venues below. 05/13 Millvale, PA ? Mr. Smalls Theatre 05/14 Louisville, KY ? Expo 5 05/15 Grand Rapids, MI ? The Intersection 05/16 Columbus, OH ? The Basement 05/17 Rochester, NY ? Montage Music Hall 05/... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

Holy crap are there a ton of great releases coming out this year. Protest The Hero can be officially added to the list, as they have announced a March 22nd release date for their album Scurrilous. We've been posting their studio pupdates and it looks like the band knows how to have fun in the ...

In yesterday's post about 2011 being The Year Of The Prog Dork I somehow neglected to include one of the albums I'm most excited about: the follow-up to Protest the Hero's jaw-dropping 2008 list-topper Fortress. Can ya feel me? That album now has a name - Scurrilous - and a release date - March 22nd, [...]

Another quiet week in the world of new releases. Best Coast and Miniature Tigers are getting all sorts of indie hype. Maylene and the Sons of Disaster is putting out a 73 vinyl. Animal Collective has a new DVD. Avenged Sevenfold still hasn't collapsed on itself entirely. The Dillinger Escape Plan have a box set version of Option Paralysis for sale. And imaginary military DJ from the future [...]

If any of you guys know me, you know that I have a permanent hard-on for my Fractal AxeFx Ultra, and although some of you may hate my tone, you would be silly to think that you couldn't dial in a tone that your weird ears like, and then some. This one is for [...]