Metal playlists from the underground
New Jersey metal mavens Seeds of Chaos attack with a sludgy slam on their five-track presentation. Taking the thick mid-paced mauling from bands like Goatwhore and Soilent Green and combining a slaughtering death metal crunch a la Obituary, this quintet unapologetically thrash their way through head stomping riff-tastic episodes of viscous metallic might. If you […]
Last night, Nikki Sixx [Mötley Crüe] made another appearance on TLC’s L.A. Ink with girlfriend Kat Von D. Sixx wanted to renovate his “Funny Farm” studio for all of his “creative stuff.” Von D provided interior design assistance, deciding to transform the space into a “medical room,” a “hooker’s den,” and “Bela Lugosi’s library.” The […]
Here are 10 recommended holiday songs for your iPods. These treats will surely satisfy your taste buds across the rock and roll spectrum. Enjoy these yummy classic rock, hard rock, punk rock, alternative rock, and thrash metal offerings. 1. The Ramones “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight)” from Brain Drain [1989]. The greatest […]
String Fingers is a tandem whose 10-track excursion STRUNG UP showcases this duo’s deep-ceded roots rock and Americana foundation. Comprising their sound from an array of stringed instruments from banjo and fiddle to violin and guitar, this outfit’s sound borrows from everything from James Taylor and Bob Dylan to bluegrass and Appalachian music on cuts […]
Wheeling out a healthy dose of hard rock histrionics, Willie Basse returns from the shadows of session musicianship and studio ownership to release his new 14-track endeavor THE MONEY GRIND. Formerly fronting the Los Angeles mainstay Black Sheep (whose name he fortuitously sold to the rap band from the early ’90s), there’s no denying that […]
Whitey Morgan and the 78’s steers clear of new country’s gloss, instead taking to the far-removed backroads to deliver a slice of rocking outlaw country music on HONKY TONKS AND CHEAP MOTELS. This 12-track affair sticks to the most prolific themes by some of the genre’s best while laying down an authentically composed collection of […]
Metallica has officially announced and confirmed a 2009 release of an “all Metallica” Guitar Hero game which will include the full band in the style of Guitar Hero World Tour and Rock Band. GH Metallica is expected to have 28 songs and will include some Alice in Chains, Machine Head, and Slayer tracks. Additionally, there […]
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Presenting a holdover sound straight from the danger-laden late-era Sunset Strip days with some modern day tweaking, Los Angeles outfit Blacklist Union portray the grit and recklessness associated with the excesses of rock ‘n roll with conviction on BREAKIN’ BREAD WITH THE DEVIL. This 10-track salvo to the bottomless glass contains the proper mixture of […]
Ukrainian symphonic black metal mavens Capitollium unleash a vehement display of hellfire and brimstone on their nine-track affair BLOODFALL OF FLESH. Incorporating everything from operatic female vocals and atmospheric keyboards to dastardly blast beats and demonic vocal deliveries, this quintet hurls volumes of venomous melodies with vitriolic shifts in velocity on cuts like “Mensis of […]