The sixth annual Monster Energy Aftershock brought 50,000 rock and metal fans to a sold out Discovery Park in Sacramento, CAon Saturday, October 21 & Sunday, October 22 for a massive weekend of music that included performances from legends Nine Inch Nails and Ozzy Osbourne (recently reunited with guitarist Zakk Wylde for the first time in over a… Read More ›
Power Trip @ Aftershock courtesy of Zoran Theodorovic 10/21/17 Discovery Park – Sacramento, California Riley Gale Nick Stewart Nick Stewart Blake Ibanez Riley Gale Riley Gale Riley Gale and Chris Whetzel Chris Whetzel Chris Whetzel Nick Stewart Be sure… Read More ›
“I have had to draft a disconcerting number of obituaries in recent years, mourning the loss of individuals who were either very close to me or of distinct importance to my life. But this obituary is by far the most… Read More ›
German thrash metal veterans DESTRUCTION will release their new “best-of-old-school” album, “Thrash Anthems II”, on November 10 via Nuclear Blast. An official medley of songs that will appear on the disc can be streamed below. In 2007, DESTRUCTION proved how… Read More ›
October 20th here in Richmond, hundreds of Bohabs flocked to The National for Gwars start of their ‘Blood of the Gods” tour. This is the same day as the release of their album, of the same name fans, were anxiously… Read More ›
Fozzy @ Aftershock 10/21/17 – Discovery Park – Sacramento, California Fozzy performed at Aftershock Festival in Sacramento on October, 21st 2017. Canon shooter Zoran Theodorovic was there to capture the action.
France’s Igorrr have confirmed that they will embark on a brief tour of North America in early 2018 in support of their latest album and Metal Blade Records debut, Savage Sinusoid. The shows include stops in Montreal, New York, Mexico… Read More ›
Death metal is alive and well in 2017 and if you don’t believe me, then just listen to the new Cannibal Corpse album, Red Before Black. Even being the 14th studio album the death metal legends have put out, it… Read More ›
Steel Panther @ Aftershock 10/21/17 – Discovery Park – Sacramento, California Steel Panther performed at Aftershock Festival in Sacramento on October, 21st 2017. Canon shooter Zoran Theodorovic was there to capture the action.
Seattle doom metallers BELL WITCH will kick off a North American tour with Denver doom trio Primitive Man this week. The journey begins on October 24th in Salt Lake City, Utah and runs through November 19th in Mesa, Arizona. From there, the… Read More ›
BRUJERIA‘s legend has proliferated for nearly three decades. When the band first emerged from the sunbaked hellscape of Los Angeles in 1989, the city was on the brink of chaos. Daryl Gates ruled the LAPD with an iron fist, overseeing… Read More ›
Greta Van Fleet courtesy of Zoran Theodorovic 10/21/17 Discovery Park – Sacramento, California Josh Kiszka Sam Kiszka & Danny Wagner Josh Kiszka Sam Kiszka Greta Van Fleet Sam Kiszka & Danny Wagner Josh Kiszka
Portland based and Los Angeles bred rapper, producer and singer DEUCE has announced that his latest album, Invincible, will be released via Better Noise Records on December 1st. The masked musician is vying for immortality with 14 new tracks, representing his next natural… Read More ›
Solanum is a Thrash Metal Band from Sacramento, CA. Solanum formed in 2010 by members Udi (Guitar), Dustin Cooknick (Drums), Joe Arellanes (Lead Guitar and Vocals) and Jason McLeod (Bass). The band recorded their first demo titled Solanum that is… Read More ›
Hed PE perform @ Ace Of Spades in Sacramento, California 10/03/17 with openers Dope, Glug, D One You think you know me but you don’t know shit You get the black eye and the big fat lip You get so… Read More ›
Coming off the heels of a successful 31-city summer tour with In This Moment and Motionless In White that saw vocalist Gina Katon perform the Gina And The Eastern Block song “Sippin’ On A Forty“ while fronting her hard-rock burlesque group Little Miss Nasty, the Los Angeles-based alternative rockers are ready to… Read More ›
With one listen it’s pretty clear, New England groove thrash group Death Rattle exude classic early millennium NWOAHM and northeastern groove through and through – channeling groups like Shadows Fall, Lamb of God and Hatebreed while breathing in new life… Read More ›
The Path Towards… is the anticipated new full-length from extreme metal unit OBLIVION. On the eleven track recording, OBLIVION — featuring within its ranks internationally-acclaimed composer and Antagony founder Dr. Nick Vasallo on vocals and bass, All Shall Perish and Antagony founder Ben Orum on… Read More ›
Having just completed a successful run of dates across Eastern Europe on the “Will To Power International Tour”, extreme metal giants ARCH ENEMY are back with another ripping single from their recently released album, “Will To Power”, with the music video single… Read More ›
Bay Area thrash vets TRAUMA announced their long-awaited comeback earlier this summer, and are set to hit the road next month on a brief headline tour, with dates being added as the kickoff nears. Four dates have been confirmed, and more are… Read More ›
As a guide for those visiting Sacramento for this weekend’s Monster Energy Aftershock, Revolver teamed up with Abe Cunningham and Frank Delgado from Deftones to highlight some of the great restaurants and gay bars that their hometown has to offer. Tickets still available here.
There’s only one metal band that is able to hit official album charts on #1 in their home country Portugal, while they belong to the worldwide pioneers of dark art: Naturally and for the first time ever, Moonspell’s brand new… Read More ›
Cruz Del Sur Music is proud to announce the November 17 release of Vicious Breed from Pittsburgh’s NWOBHM-inspired upstarts LADY BEAST. The album was produced by Jason Jouver. Karl Dahmer is credited with the album’s cover art. A lyric video for album track “Every Giant Shall Fall”… Read More ›
“Troublemaker” is the third video from Sharp/Shock’s debut album, Unlearn Everything, released earlier this year on Alkaline Trio’s label, Heart & Skull Records. It’s a tale of forbidden love, clashing youth cultures, set against the band’s sonic backdrop of teenage rebellion……… with a twist. “Troublemaker,… Read More ›
In our recent interview with OBITUARY drummer Donald Tardy, he commented on the band’s original record label, Roadrunner Records, which released six studio albums by the group between 1989 and 2005. “It’s a subject that none of the band members really like talking about,” Tardy said. “We… Read More ›
CATTLE DECAPITATION will headline the MetalSucks and Exclaim! Aggressive Tendencies Presents: The North American Extinction Tour Part II: Inhuman Beings, featuring Revocation, Full Of Hell, and Artificial Brain as support. The journey begins October 10th in Los Angeles, California and will run… Read More ›
G-punk innovators (HED)Pe teamed up with Industrial Metal Veterans DOPE for their The Monster High Tour 2017 with metal rockers Ill Niño on select dates. Video from the Sacramento stop can be found streaming below. “I’m really excited about this… Read More ›
Hailing from Meriden Connecticut, Shallow Ground is a thrash metal band originally formed back in the mid-nineties. Comprised of like-minded individuals with a passion for playing loud, aggressive, brain-rattling music, the band is aiming to spread its brand of thrash metal… Read More ›
Paul “HR” Hudson is the voice of punk/hardcore pioneers and Rock N’ Roll Hall Of Fame nominees Bad Brains, one of the most influential bands to rise out of the 1980’s. With Bad Brains, HR harnessed the fiery potential of melding punk… Read More ›
Swedish heavy metallers RAM will release their striking new album, Rod, on November 3rd via Metal Blade Records! In anticipation of this release, RAM have now unleashed a full production video for the 2nd single, “On Wings Of No Return.” RAM comments: “We assembled the same team… Read More ›
Vänlade is a heavy metal band with roots in Kansas City, Kansas. Over the past several years, the band has forged its brand of fast, heavy, and highly melodic music with an intense passion and energy. The band’s classic influences… Read More ›
Sweden based blues rockers Blue Pills have announced to release their first ever DVD/Blu Ray, entitled Lady In Gold Live In Paris, on November 3, 2017. See cover below this message. The release features the band sold out performance at Le Trianon in Paris, France on… Read More ›
With 2006’s Dimevision Vol 1: That’s The Fun I Have, fans of Dimebag Darrell and his work with Pantera and Damageplan were afforded the chance to see into the world of the legendary guitarist. Compiled from the many, many hours… Read More ›
Black Label Society have announced a hefty batch of North American tour dates today spanning coast to coast in support of their recently announced all new LP, Grimmest Hits. Support will come from legends Corrosion of Conformity on all dates…. Read More ›
Masked horror metal band Terror Universal – featuring current and former members of Ill Nino, Soulfly, Upon A Burning Body and Machine Head – recently announced their signing with Minus Head Records, as well as the completion of their debut full-length album, entitled… Read More ›
Dawn of Morgana is a Symphonic Metal band hailing from the Sacramento Bay Area. Originally featuring Jack Gibson of Exodus on bass guitar (Jack has since been replaced by bassist Marcel Eaton due to overwhelming obligations with Exodus) and front… Read More ›
Bay Area thrash metal kings Exodus have collided with the Florida death metal godfathers from Obituary for another epic “Battle of the Bays” this fall. The two American legends went to war in Europe last year and are currently bringing… Read More ›
Doyle courtesy of Scott Martin 11/10/15 DNA Lounge – San Francisco, California Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein embarked on the “Mad Monster Tour” featuring his band Doyle Heads crushed, watch them turn into dust there’s a black cloud forming and its covering both… Read More ›
Tombs To Support TICKETS ON SALE TODAY 11.11.17 San Antonio, TX – Alamo City Music Hall 11.13.17 Las Vegas, NV – Beauty Bar* 11.14.17 San Diego, CA – Brick by Brick* 11.15.17 West Hollywood, CA – Whiskey a Go Go*… Read More ›
In exactly one week from today, black avant-garde Norwegians ENSLAVED will finally unleash their new album E and prove that for a band with more than 25 years of history, they are still reinventing themselves. While the 10-minute-long opening track “Storm Son” gave fans a taster… Read More ›
Junkyard’s third full length studio album, High Water (released April 21, 2017) made huge waves upon release, selling out of initial pressings and cracking Billboard’s Top 25 Hard Rock Album Sales Chart. Fans and critic’s agree the album, the band’s first in… Read More ›
The brothers Max and Iggor Cavalera formed the legendarily trailblazing heavy metal band SEPULTURA as teenagers together in 1983. Across six studio albums the Brazilian punishers perfected the art of darkness and extreme music with thrash classics such as Beneath the Remains, Arise andChaos AD, while exploring… Read More ›
The album is now available for pre-order in the form of a limited edition “Tape Baking Bundle” that includes the Millican 20th Anniversary Remastered for vinyl double LP with unreleased bonus tracks, a digital download card, Millican CD, Millicananniversary T-shirt and a Millican Koozie. Starting on October 20 all… Read More ›
The story of GWAR is carved across the history of this barren and hopeless planet, but GWAR themselves are not of this world… their story begins in the deepest reaches of outer space. Long ago, the beings who would become… Read More ›
Imperium is the impending new full-length from brutalizing California death metal unit THE KENNEDY VEIL. Slated to drop on October 20th via Unique Leader Records, the eight-track offering was produced, mixed, and mastered by Zack Ohren (Animosity, Suffocation, All Shall Perish et al) at… Read More ›
Dope perform @ Ace Of Spades in Sacramento, California 10/03/17 with openers Hed PE, Glug, D One Dope 10/03/17 @ Ace Of Spades – Sacramento, California All photos by Zoran Theodorovic Death, drugs, guns, sluts Spoon fed hate and… Read More ›
Virginia/North Carolina-based instrumental metal ministers LOINCLOTH have issued an official video for “Bestial Infernal,” the track hailing from the outfit’s final LP Psalm Of The Morbid Whore, which was issued last week through Southern Lord. Packing nine new passages into a half-hour assault, Psalm… Read More ›
This Friday (October 6th), The Black Dahlia Murder will release their eighth full-length,Nightbringers, via Metal Blade Records – which has already become the best-selling direct-to-consumer pre-order in the label’s storied history! For a preview of Nightbringers, the new single, Kings of the Nightworld…. Read More ›
October 6th marks the official unveiling of Vestigial, the impending third full-length from Sydney, Australia-based post-metal/sludge unit LO! Well-crafted with a larger scope both musically and thematically than previous outings, Vestigial finds the band tighter than ever before boasting a sound that’s seismically heavy yet organic,… Read More ›
Greek orchestral death metallers, Septicflesh, released their 10th studio album, Codex Omega, on September 1st via Prosthetic Records. Next February and March, the band will bring their latest auditory onslaught on the road. The band has announce their upcoming North… Read More ›
Broken Hope recently released their seventh studio album, Mutilated And Assimilated, via Century Media Records. The album pays tribute to John Carpenter’s classic film, The Thing, and John W. Campbell Jr’s short story, Who Goes There. Broken Hope have now… Read More ›
Propelling the entire world into a melodic vortex, Marquis of Vaudeville emits an extraordinary sound that spirals listeners on an utterly imaginative, musical merry-go-round. With imagination at its core, their theatrical flair intertwines progressive, carnival-esque, punk-cabaret stylings with timeworn elements… Read More ›
Black Label Society have debuted their brand new music video for the first single from Grimmest Hits titled “Room Of Nightmares” which debuted first on SIRIUSXM Octane last week, directed by long time collaborator Justin Reich. Black Label Society will release their tenth full length titled Grimmest Hits on January 19, 2018 via… Read More ›
Gwar been slaying and spewing on millions ever since their first show at P.B. Kelly’s in 1985 and throughout their career the unforgettable and irreplaceable Dave Brockie had many different influences and always experimented with their sound. Three years after… Read More ›
