Tag: metal

  • PRESS RELEASE In anticipation of I AM HERESY’s new full-length, Thy Will (due out March 3rd in Europe and March 4th in North America), a special landing page has been launched that gives fans two album tracks for free. To download “Rahabh” and “March Of Black Earth”, please head over to: http://smarturl.it/iah_freesongs Both tracks can…

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  • “The Bitter Pill” is a gorgeous ballad from Warrant’s 1993 album Dog Eat Dog, which came out just as Nirvana and Pearl Jam were taking over the radio, ushering in the grunge era. “Hair metal” ballads do not get better than this gem. And this version, performed acoustically solo by the late singer Jani Lane,…

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  • Demoraliser are a metalcore band hailing from Grimsby, a seaport on the Humber Estuary in Lincolnshire, England. They were formed in 2010 and soon began releasing monstrous EPs that earned them heaps of praise, especially in the underground scene. The quality — and brutality — of these EPs, along with their reputation as a pulverizing…

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  • Well, we are literally blown away by this one. It is totally fucking fierce. It’s also one of their heaviest songs to date. The verses are melodic in the way that the band’s earlier albums were, but the chorus is especially heavy and even has the guys singing — or, you could say, shouting –…

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  • Yesterday we brought you Meg Myer’s eerie video for her new sultry new song “Desire.” Well, here’s another track, brought to our attention via an e-mail from its super talented co-writer and producer Doctor Rosen Rosen, who once remixed an entire Lily Allen album. We’re pretty blown away by this one. “Go” is a deliciously…

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  • “This is it, my apocalypse,” scream-sings Caliban frontman Andreas Dörner during “Wolves and Rats,” just one of the veteran metal band’s killer — and brutal — new songs. It’s hard to believe, but the German metal outfit has been around for over sixteen years now. I kid you not. They were formed in Hattingen, Germany…

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  • Withöft, 49, Passed Away January 20, 2014 “I have lost my best friend of 32 years and my business partner of 24. Although the unthinkable already happened three days ago, I am still in a state of utter shock. Oliver Withöft leaves a space that cannot be filled for all who held him dear. He…

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  • Lacuna Coil will be releasing their seventh studio album, Broken Crown Halo, in North America on April 1, 2014.  The album will be released on March 31 in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The band will soon take part in the REVOLVER HOTTEST CHICKS IN HARD ROCK TOUR tour, which starts on February 20th in Wilmington,…

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  • First-rate Misfits guitarist Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein is back and at the top of his game on the pulverizing new album DOYLE: Abominator. Joining him are dynamic vocalist Alex Story (Cancerslug), masterly bassist “Left-Hand” Graham and the consummate, latter day Misfits drummer Dr. Chud. Like Newsted or Slash, Doyle is a band, but at the…

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  • This review was originally published on Otaku.  I’m running it here because it was recently released here in the States. VAMPS — known as VAMPS (JPN) here in the States for Trademark reasons — is a Japanese hard rock/metal group formed in 2008 by vocalist/rhythm guitarist HYDE of L’Arc~en~Ciel fame and lead guitarist Kazuhito “K.A.Z”…

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