DevilDriver is a veteran metal band, but its members' personal taste in music reaches far beyond heavy music. As first teased by frontman Dez Fafara last year, the band's upcoming full-length album of outlaw country-gone-metal anthems, "Outlaws 'Til the End," finally will see its day. The collection of metal interpretations will be released via Napalm Records... Continue Reading →
Lamb of God may be one of the biggest bands in modern metal, but they will never forget where they came from. Mark Morton (guitar), John Campbell (bass) and Chris Adler (drums) formed the first incarnation of the band, Burn the Priest, in winter 1994 after meeting four years earlier as students at Virginia Commonwealth University.... Continue Reading →
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Corrosion of Conformity, or COC, has a long, complicated history, starting with its formation in the early 1980s as a punk band and enduring a multitude of lineup changes until reaching the peak of its popularity in the ‘90s. After the band went on hiatus in 2006, the trio that recorded the 1985 album “Animosity”—bassist/vocalist... Continue Reading →
Review by Greg Maki-----The hottest ticket in metal this winter undoubtedly is Lamb of God’s first U.S. headlining tour in support of its latest album, “VII: Sturm und Drang,” released last summer. The Richmond, Virginia-based band has grown steadily through the years to a point where it could fill the venues it’s playing on this... Continue Reading →
Denmark’s Volbeat has been one of metal’s biggest international success stories in recent years. Propelled by a pair of number one singles at Active Rock Radio (“A Warrior’s Call” and “Still Counting”), tours with Metallica and Megadeth, and its own headlining runs, the band has become a force in the American metal scene. On the... Continue Reading →
Hellyeah’s newly released third album, “Band of Brothers”, is the kind of heavy, aggressive record many fans have been hoping for since the news of a band featuring members of Pantera, Damageplan, Mudvayne and Nothingface first broke. Guitarist Tom Maxwell feels that way, too. Prior to the last show of Hellyeah’s tour supporting Volbeat, Live... Continue Reading →
