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Tom Morello has announced the passing of his mother, Mary Morello, at the age of 102. The RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE guitarist shared news of her passing on social media Sunday night (July 12),writing: "Mary Morello is forever with the Rebels of Light & Song. (1923-2026)." The 62-year-old Tom too...

Former METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted joined the iconic Atlanta country rock outfit BLACKBERRY SMOKE on stage on Thursday, July 9 at Greenfield Lake Amphitheater in Wilmington, North Carolina to perform a cover of the THIN LIZZY classic "Jailbreak". Fan-filmed video of his appearance can be seen be...

Halestorm's Lzzy Hale pays tribute to metal's female trailblazers at Rock Hall event

Shinedown bassist will miss opening dates of North American tour after "serious mental health crash"

According to Billboard, METALLICA's quadruple-platinum seventh studio album, "ReLoad", has landed on several charts since being re-released on June 26 via the band's own Blackened Recordings. "ReLoad" Billboard album chart positions: * Top Hard Rock Albums, No. 1 (debut) * Top Rock Albums, No. 3 (de...

According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Torpedo Comics, which is owned by SYSTEM OF A DOWN drummer John Dolmayan, has closed its Las Vegas location after nearly a decade. "Thank you to the Las Vegas community for supporting us for the last 9 years!" reads a sign posted on the shop's door announci...

On this week's Dropocalypse, we focus on vinyl for those sceney-boppers you have in your life, including Bring Me The Horizon's newest LP.

These groups have all been active for over 40 years.

Ankara’dan çıkan ve daha ilk andan pek çok şeyi doğru yapan yüksek potansiyelli black metal.

​Geçtiğimiz dönemde Metallica ile gerçekleştirdikleri "The Outlaw Torn" iş birliğiyle adından söz ettiren yerli progresif metal grubu A Thousand Allies, bu büyük projenin ardından ilk resmi şarkısı “Forge... or Die!” teklisini, müzik klibiyle birlikte yayınladı.​Modern progresif metalcore tınılarını mitolojik bir konseptle harmanlayan grup, bu şarkıda dinleyicilerini Yunan mitolojisinin derinliklerine götürüyor. Demirci tanrı Hephaistos'un perspektifinden yazılan sözleriyle dikkat çeken parça, g

Watch videos of all Kirk Hammett and Rob Trujillo's local Doodles from the WorldWired and M72 tour with our handy interactive Metallica Doodle Map

Viking-metal mainstays Amon Amarth have entered their unplugged stage. Today (July 8th), and for the first time ever, the Swedish quintet delivered a rustic and entirely acoustically-strummed anthem that they call “Upphaf.” The song chimes into focus with acoustic strums and propulsive, elemental percussion. Above all that, frontman Johan Hegg unearths a craggy, legend-casting croak about “old tales of men I recall from long ago,” including “giants of yore who gave me bread in the days gone by.” A press release further explains that “Upphaf” acts as “an oral history whispered under the shadow of the Allfather, proving [Amon Amarth’s] interest in Oden cuts just as deep by firelight as it does on epic global stages.” You can check out the aesthetically softer but no less epic addition to Amon Amarth’s Norse myth-borne songbook via the music video up above, which finds the band intoning their tale around a campfire. Amon Amarth’s “Upphaf” follows last year’s bombastic, battle-driven and decidedly more electrified “We Rule the Waves” single. Proper details have not yet been shed behind Amon Amarth’s full-length follow-up to 2022’s The Great Heathen Army, but a studio album is in the works. In the meantime, Amon Amarth have a number of upcoming shows on the horizon across Europe. You’ll find the full details on their live schedule here.

The United States of America just celebrated its 250th birthday. A major milestone, for sure, but what’s even wilder to consider is that just over a fifth of the country’s history has been defined, in part, by the sound of metal. From sea-to-shining-sea, the U.S. has produced innumerable artists that have thrown heavy-music fans into a headbanging frenzy for decades. From the thrash trailblazers, to the original gods of hardcore, to the grunge-era greats, to the New Wave of American Heavy Metal and beyond, plenty of iconic stars have shot out of the Land of the Free. But who is the greatest single U.S. metal act of all time? We asked our readers to weigh in on their favorites, and they saluted the top five accordingly. Type O Negative Banded out of the borough of Brooklyn, the Drab Four melded metal gloom, gothic romance and a bit of shock humor into a sound entirely of their own. The unique blend as preserved on classic albums like Bloody Kisses and October Rust transfixed countless listeners around the globe, cementing Type O as one of the premiere U.S. metal acts of their generation. TOOL While TOOL’s mind-boggling progressive complexity seems to exist out of time and space, it’s true that the group got their start in the early Nineties while performing around Los Angeles, California. They quickly astral-projected themselves off the Sunset Strip and into the third eyes of a legion of fans, moving from the moody, synapse-firing explorations of Undertow and Ænima all the way up to 2019’s Fear Inoculum — and hopefully beyond. Slayer Slayer’s music has shown no mercy since the dawn of the Eighties. And the all-out-menacing aesthetic of their catalog — coalescing around thrash-blitzed beats, defiantly off-the-hilt guitar soloing and the incensed, vein-popping scream of bassist Tom Araya — elevated the genre into a new level of extremity. Though their themes could sometimes be Satanic, Slayer also took a tough look at the world around them, casting a critical gaze towards the plight of soldiers out on the battlefield (“Mandatory Suicide”) and the PTSD many have suffered in the aftermath (“Eyes of the Insane”). No matter what topics they took on, the music always hit hard. Pantera For many, the Cowboys of Hell are not just the official soundtrack of Texas — as our readers voted in another recent poll — but one of the biggest pillars of U.S. metal, period. For proof, check the war chest full of all-timers like “Walk,” “Primal Concrete Sledge,” “5 Minutes Alone,” “Cemetery Gates,” “I’m Broken” and so many more. Indeed, once the Lonestate legends pushed past their Power Metal period, they delivered a intensely grooving and exquisitely vulgar series of full-length statements that remain beloved to this day. Replete with Dimebag Darrell’s super-scooped guitar wizardry, Vinnie Paul’s cannon-fire double-kickin’, Rex Brown’s bonesaw bass grooves and Philip Anselmo’s take-no-prisoners bark, the classic lineup was a gamechanger. Truly, an American band like no other. Metallica Give me fuel. Give me fire. Give me liberty or give me death. ‘Tallica are the world’s biggest metal band and have been for decades. Despite having formed in Los Angeles, California, they’ve also been brand ambassadors for the Bay Area thrash uprising of the Eighties, exemplifying the greatest feats of the then-trailblazing sound through a series of classic albums. Metallica have sung of the horrors of war (“One,” “For Whom the Bell Tolls”) and the fight for American liberty (“Don’t Tread on Me”). While U.S. by nature, they continue to rally metalheads around the globe to unite under the borderless banner of heavy metal.

The band played Santiago to a famously frosty reception during the X Factour in 1996

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M Shadows explains how Avenged Sevenfol embraced their prog tendencies more than ever before on their most recent album to date

Avatar have announced a one-night-only performance celebrating the 10th anniversary of Feathers Flesh.The Swedish metal outfit will bring 10 Years Of Feathers Flesh to London's Royal Albert Hall on March...

Breaking down the setlists from Metallica's epic three-year run that recently wrapped up as the band takes a much-needed break.

As part of the first anniversary of Sabbath's "Back To The Beginning" farewell show.

Featuring orchestral elements, a choir and more.