Tagged: newshit

Here's something make you happy while we wait to see whether or not The Human Abstract have broken up. Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is one of those pieces of music that's so famous, everyone in the entire world knows it, even if he or she doens't know that he or she knows it. Seriously. It's this thing, [...]

iamaleak by gregoriev_suckalotsky Koloss comes out on March 27th via Nuclear Blast Records. -VN Thanks: Tim Shanks and Dantera

If you're the sort of person who gets excited about 30 seconds of new music, then boy are you gonna be happy about this: Amazon has posted 30 second samples of every song from the new T.R.A.M. and Veil of Maya albums, as is de rigeur these days a couple of weeks in advance of [...]

To me, nothing is as fully sweet like pop music played heavy and with controlled virtuosity. It's like a famous master chef whipping up simple, delicious hot dogs for my face; it seems foolish to abandon such classic fare to high-volume/low-margin assembly lines, right? Hence my devotion to the jamz of Rush, Bay Area thrash, [...]

What was once inconceivable is now a reality: A David Lee Roth-fronted Van Halen is set to release a new album! It took 28 years, a soul-crushing false start with Roth in 1996, the dumping of bassist/backing vocalist Michael Anthony, and a new label home, but A Different Kind Of Truth finally arrives today. However, a fair appraisal of Truth could [...]

Go morning!!! As you read this, I am sitting in an oral surgeon's chair, having my wisdom tooth ripped from my skull. But you get to do something much more fun: listen to "Parasitic Scriptures of the Sacred Word," a new Goatwhore song which is now streaming here. If you're feeling angry or stressed, this [...]

So, hey, remember Red Lamb, the new project from former Anthrax guitarist Dan Spitz and forever Megadeth boss Dave Mustaine (and once upon a time called DeuxMonkey)? Well, guess what? Their self-titled debut full-length was released on Friday via iTunes. And you'd think that first album from a band featuring two founding members of Big [...]

I fucking love, love, LOVE Cannibal Corpse's new album, Torture - and one of my favorite tracks from that upcoming release, "Scourge of Iron," is now available for streaming. It's not crazy-fast chaotic Cannibal Corpse - to utilize some recent examples from the band's catalog, it's more in the vein of "A Cauldron of Hate" or [...]

I haven't listened too intently to the lyrics for "Leather Lord," the brand new song by 3 Inches of Blood, but based on the words in the chorus, historical inference and good old fashioned intuition it's not too hard to guess what this song is about: PURE HEAVY FUCKING METAL. I'm imagining a masked avenger [...]

I'm not gonna sit here and pretend that I never liked Tenacious D - fuck, dude, I loved Tenacious D. I watched their show on HBO, I bought their first album the day it came out in 2001, and I saw them live in concert. I though they were great. But then Jack Black way outstayed [...]

Akron, OH outfit If These Trees Could Talk are one of those bands whose style is really hard to pin down, but if you've ever enjoyed music by any of the following bands you're absolutely gonna love them: Junius, Constants, Caspian, Mogwai, Dredg, Scale the Summit. They walk a blurry line between post-metal, shoegaze and [...]

Obey the Brave, the new project featuring former Despised Icon vocalist Alex Erian and ex-Blind Witness guitarist Jon Campbell, have released their first music video, for a song called "Live and Learn," and I find that kinda silly, since we haven't even been able to stream one single entire song by the band anywhere yet. Maybe OtB [...]

Yesterday I received a press release about how The Darkness were about to release a new song, leading me to wonder via my Twitter account (and, consequently, my Facebook page - the two are linked! Isn't technology glorious?) "The Darkness are still a thing?" This led to several interesting interactions with readers/followers, including what defines [...]

Last night I listened to both Axel Rudi Pell's Circle of the Oath and The Devastated's Devil's Messenger for the first time, and I'm honestly not sure which one was is worse. I guess ARP has some humor/entertainment value at least, because it's just SO GODDAMN SILLY, whereas The Devastated's album just made me wanna kill myself; [...]

So, hey, remember a couple of weeks back, when we debuted a new Psycroptic song, "The Throne of Kings," from their forthcoming album, The Inherited Repression? And remember how awesome it was? How you were all, "WOW! Now THIS is what tech death is SUPPOSED to sound like!"? And then you were all, "I CANNOT [...]

When Filter mainman Richard Patrick went into rehab in 2002, it marked the end of the industrial-rock band's rad second line-up. That means it's been about a decade since the Filter that made Title Of Record (super classic!) and The Amalgamut (epic!), and since then jeez I haven't caught sight of Patrick's old team like at all. [...]

When writing about a new Bleeding Through track called "Goodbye to Death" a few weeks ago, I noted that "I don't find this band quite as irritating as I did even just a few years ago." And now, having heard the entirety of their new album, The Great Fire, I can reaffirm this assessment. Bleeding Through [...]

I'm not really sure how I didn't know this, but apparently Revocation covered Faith No More's "Surprise! You're Dead!" for the deluxe digital iTunes edition of last year's Chaos of Forms. And if you're like me and you didn't know this and you didn't buy the deluxe digital blah blah of Chaos, you're in luck, 'cause [...]

Not being a regular BBC listener, I'm not familiar with the show Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone - but I will say that, at this very moment, I am both very grateful to and very angry at Mr. Maconie. Grateful because last night, he debuted an awesome, strange-as-fuck new Sigh song, "The Transfiguration Fear," which will appear on [...]

When ex-Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy announced an unlikely collaboration with John Sykes (above left, the guy who wrote Whitesnake's huge album), it was easy to be of two minds: On the one hand, Portnoy had reactivated the long-dormant Sykes, which is awesome; but, jeez, the Portnoy-Sykes affair also set a roadblock before any potential [...]