Heavy Metal News
Strap yourselves in and get ready for October, because it’s absolutely insane how many highly anticipated albums are set to be released. October will see releases from Papa Roach, Three Days Grace, Converge, Pig Destroyer, Cradle of Filth, Between the Buried and Me + many more. When it comes to crafting albums filled with technical and compositional brilliance, few bands come close to Between the Buried and Me. The band
Stone Temple Pilots fans in Abbotsford, British Columbia, last night (Sept. 17) had to exercise an extreme amount of patience in order to see the band play live as the rockers finally took to the stage two hours after the opening band without any explanation to ticket-holders regarding their tardiness. According to fan reports, the opening act went on promptly at 8:30 and then concertgoers were left in suspense for
As promised, Green Day are sharing their ‘¡Uno!’ album ahead of its release via the band’s new deal with Nokia Music / AT&T. Fans can listen to the disc in full at the group’s Facebook page under the ‘Hear ¡Uno! Now’ tab. Thanks to a number of club dates over the past few months, fans are already familiar with a number of tracks from the first album in the band’s
Mark Tremonti will be playing Chicago this weekend, just not in the venue initially planned. The Alter Bridge and Creed guitarist has ceded his solo band’s show at the House of Blues for the Bottom Lounge after receiving a request from Prince to move the performance. The show was originally supposed to take place at the House of Blues at 7:30PM Sunday (Sept. 23) night, but the legendary “purple one”
The most brutal cartoon characters in the history of animation have scooped up their first ever Death Match victory. Having defeated The Faceless, ‘Metalocalypse’ heroes Dethklok now look to run through another opponent to carve a blood-splattered trail into the Death Match Hall of Fame. Their next opponents may be humanoids, but they’ve released one of 2012′s best metal albums and are hungry for a Death Match win. Gojira have
If the world does indeed end in December 2012, Shadows Fall plan on going out in style. They will launch the ‘Party to the Apocalypse Tour’ on Oct. 12 in Worcester, Mass., with supporting bands God Forbid, Thy Will Be Done and Trumpet The Harlot. It will be the first headlining tour for Shadows Fall in support of their latest album ‘Fire From The Sky,’ which was released earlier this
Can’t wait until the new Between the Buried and Me album comes out? Of course you cant! BTBAM’s latest full-length, ‘The Parallax II: Future Sequence,’ arrives on Oct. 9, but you can hear bits and pieces of the epic record from this new studio footage, just released by the progressive metal giants. ‘The Parallax II’ clocks in at just over an hour, and if you’re a big BTBAM fan, you