Metal playlists from the underground
Mastodon is a relatively new metal band to make the Gears of Rock’s Top 100 Countdown. This band’s unique and effectively executed progressive-sludge approach lands them in the #86 spot. Their last two albums, “Crack the Skye” and “The Hunter,” propelled the band into the forefront of modern metal. Mastodon’s best songs are “Iron Tusk,” […]
The Mastodon and pop star Feist collaboration is now streaming. This unlikely unification called Feistodon is part of Record Store Day (April 21 – Today!). Listen to the two songs below from this special edition split 7″: “Black Tongue” (Mastodon Cover) “A Commotion” (Feist Cover) I’ll be heading over to Looney Tunes in West Babylon this […]
Zombie Ritual on Baltimore’s 97 Underground rock radio station features the most powerful songs tearing up the metal world. Tune in to the show every Saturday night at 8pm EST for Evil Scott’s “5 From Hell!” showcase segment. This week’s “5 From Hell!” includes new cuts from Killer Be Killed, DemonScar, Hjelvik, Fuck The Facts, […]
Top-charting dark groove metal DEVILDRIVER announced their highly-anticipated release of the upcoming double album, Dealing With Demons. The first volume – entitled Dealing With Demons I – drops on October 9, 2020 via Napalm Records and marks the band’s first release of new, original material since 2016’s acclaimed Trust No One. DEVILDRIVER’s new single “Nest […]
What a killer week for metal and hard rock! This weeks Gears of Rock’s Top 30 Metal playlist on Spotify has lots of new doom and thrash hits that we’ve been eating up. Gears of Rock Top 30: Week of August 10, 2020 “Moth into Flame (Live)” Metallica with San Francisco Symphony “Another World” Gojira […]
Virginia’s heavy rock powerhouse Valkyrie will release their first album in 5 years. Fear, as the LP is titled has the band exploring a more diversified and progressive sound than usual. That’s why we have been closely following their most recent singles “Evil Eye”, “The Choice”, and “Feeling So Low” leading up to the Fear […]
Norwegian stoner rock geniuses Slomosa unveiled a new song “In My Mind’s Desert”, a blissfully melodic journey through the heavy tundra. You can hear the band’s unapologetic desert and grunge influences in each of the 3 singles they released since last October. Really great music all around. The band has had great success making it […]
The greatest heavy metal band in history is Black Sabbath and there is simply no disputing that. Sabbath are the true Godfather’s of heavy metal hailing from Birmingham, England. Their conquest of the universe began in 1968 and have in some way influenced every single band that you hear today. In our opinion, more significant […]
BPMD, the iconic group of metal legends Bobby Blitz (Overkill), Mike Portnoy (The Winery Dogs, Sons of Apollo), Mark Menghi (Metal Allegiance) and Phil Demmel (Vio–lence, ex-Machine Head) are gearing up to release their debut album of 70s rock cover, American Made, tomorrow June 12th on Napalm Records. This week BPMD unveiled their third single, […]
Virginia thrash outfit Braincell recently released “Slaughter” the band’s first single of 2020. A brutal offering that blends the groove metal styles of Lamb of God and Pantera while unleashing a fierce energy of early Slayer and Discharge recordings. Listen to “Slaughter” Radio on Spotify and hear the power of Braincell alongside Sin Seer, Countess, […]