By Greg Maki “Good God/Baad Man” is a record that could come only from a veteran band, a collection of musicians who have learned a thing or two over the years, players with more than a few gray hairs. “Grizzled” is a word that comes to mind. There’s a certain kind of lived-in confidence driving... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki A dozen albums and more than three decades into its career, Lamb of God is as incendiary as ever on “Into Oblivion.” The Richmond, Virginia, quintet has been one of the 21st century’s most consistent forces in heavy music, and while reinvention is not the name of the game for this new... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki Now THIS is Rob Zombie. Make no mistake, he’s always been one of a kind throughout a music and movie career that now spans four decades. But he’s seemingly spent much of the past 20 years running from the industrialized metal sound on which he gained his fame, first with White Zombie... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki Though I identify as a metalhead through and through, one of my favorite artists of all time is David Bowie. And I’ve been thinking a lot about him this month, which included his birthday and marked 10 years since his passing. He also has come to mind quite a bit in the... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki—And just like that, another year has come and gone. And what a year 2025 was for heavy music, led by this summer’s instantly legendary Back to the Beginning concert and Ozzy Osbourne’s passing just a couple weeks later—not unexpected but no less devastating because of that. Those titanic events served to shine... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki After inviting us into its world on its debut album, 2024’s “Into the Realm,” fantasy doom metal band Castle Rat—hailing from the very non-fantastical Brooklyn, New York—expands on its lore in spectacular fashion on its sophomore effort, “The Bestiary.” With the first album featuring only seven proper songs and barely topping 30... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki “Mid Death Crisis” finds Wednesday 13 doing what he does best—better than just about anyone, really. After veering off in a heavier, darker direction for much of the 2010s, the Duke of Spook is revisiting and fully embracing his roots in punk rock and sleazy, ‘80s glam metal on his 10th full-length... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki Much has been written about Spiritbox during the past few years as the band emerged from Canada to become one of the buzziest of buzz bands in heavy music’s recent history. The 2021 debut full-length “Eternal Blue” justified the hype, and not content to rest on its early success, the band continued... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki — I feel like a broken record, saying it year after year, but man, what a year for heavy music. 2024 was full of genre- and subgenre-defining and defying releases by artists new, old and older—not to mention some of the highest profile moments we’ve seen in our space in some time,... Continue Reading →
By Greg Maki — What a year. For the first time in what feels like forever, heavy music infiltrated the mainstream in a big way in 2024. And it happened without a hint of compromise, showing the world what metal is all about without being watered down for mass consumption. The year was full of... Continue Reading →
