Metal playlists from the underground
Rex Brown of the legendary and now unfortunately defunct metal giant Pantera has recently resurfaced with a brand new and quite surprisingly different sounding solo effort. Smoke on This is a refreshing soul-searching and demon-squashing album that digs deep into the musical roots that have shaped the musician that Rex has become. Until now, Rex […]
Loaded Guns offer “Bring Us Down,” a featured track from the Miami metal band’s upcoming Unstoppable – EP from Century Media Records. Very catchy, deeply melodic, and devilishly refreshing. The flow, phrasing, and pick-hand speed of the guitar solo is excellent. A highly talented and positive metal band. The “we are screaming” line is sure to […]
Leo Moracchioli of Frog Leap Studios responds to the calls for a Linkin Park cover with “Heavy,” a solid tribute to Chester Benington. This version is hard, fast, and heavy as oppose to the original ballad featuring Kiiara. Last week Leo released his metal rendition of “Despacito” and received tons of press from mainstream media.
Watch Riphouse 151: Could’ve Been’s & Wanna Be’s I have discussed and reviewed the thrash metal documentary Riphouse 151 on the Gears of Rock over the last year and just got word that it is now available in its entirety online. If you want to want to watch a good film with some good music […]
Will 2010 be the strongest year of the decade for metal music? Typically, I try to refrain from being overly optimistic—and try to exercise some degree of caution—when making bold or what may seem as premature predictions. However, 2010 continues to amaze me with monstrous metal offerings; only several weeks into the new year and several seemingly landmark […]
Update: Read the Mechanize full album review here The new single “Powershifter” from Fear Factory is the most devastating and brutal tune in metal at the moment. The long awaited return of Dino Cazares on the guitars combined with Gene Hoglan’s drums most likely account for the powerfully aggressive rhythmic patterns that leaves the listener […]
When the Age of Evil Get Dead EP arrived on my doorstep, the two cover tracks — Skid Row’s “Slave to the Grind” and Judas Priest’s “The Hellion/Electric Eye” — immediately gained my attention. “This is going to be a killer disc,” I thought to myself. The band has a cool name, some teenage angst, and […]
ARCH ENEMY THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL Metal mavens Arch Enemy have excavated some of their favorite cuts from the first three non-Angela albums, rehearsed (and in some instances rehashed) the hell out of them and went to the studio and laid down new versions to comprise their latest 13-track endeavor The Root of All […]
VOIVOD INFINI Finishing up where Katorz left off, the final round of posthumous musical output from deceased guitarist Denis “Piggy” D’Amour has arrived in the form of Infini, a 13-track collection dutifully piecing together the remainder of the compositional odds and sods D’Amour left behind on his laptop before succumbing to cancer in 2005. The […]
NYC trio Tombs masterfully juxtapose metal subgenres to develop a blend of bleak yet menacing shoegazing sludge on the 10-track disc WINTER HOURS. Post-hardcore pondering and black metal brutality collide many times over on this stirring affair (“Filled With Secrets,” “Gossamer”), creating explosive waves of intense aggression laden with dense dollops of doom and darkness […]