Toxic Holocaust his hitting the road starting tonight, as direct support for metal legends Soulfly. The six-week tour will cover three-dozen cities and additional support will come from X-Method, Madzilla, Skinflint, and Systemhouse 33. Led by mastermind Joel Grind, Toxic Holocaust is touring in support of their 2019 album Primal Future, released in October via Entertainment One (“eOne”). Continue reading
Sludge and Doom metal hero Kirk Windstein (Crowbar, Down, Kingdom of Sorrow) will drop his debut solo album Dream In Motion tomorrow, January 24th via Entertainment One (eOne). Kirk has shared his album-closing cover of Progressive Rock classic track ‘Aqualung’ by Jethro Tull debuts his reverential cover of the hugely influential Jethro Tull song ‘Aqualung’. Check it out! Continue reading
I have always been a soul that yearned to watch my favorite bands live. There is nothing like hearing the songs that have become the soundtrack to your life performed live. One of the most animated and entertaining bands of present day is Swedish Heavy Metal Band, Avatar. To say the band’s live performance is theatrical would not be giving it justice. Avatar is a band that lands solidly into the “just as good live ” category in my book. You don’t even have to take my word for it, you can hear it for your selves by listening to Avatar’s new live performance album, The King Live in Paris (eOne Heavy).Continue reading
When you get an album with the band name Texas Hippie Coalition, you have a set of expectations about what it’s going to sound like. A mental image of the music pops into your brain. Texas Hippie Coalition did not disappoint with High In The Saddle (Entertainment One). True to form, it’s Texas-style southern rock with a scruffy “edge” to the lyrics and followable 4/4 beats. If you like listening to Down, Black Label Society, or Southern Train Gypsy, Texas Hippie Coalition is almost but not quite totally unlike that. High In The Saddle straddles the line of rock and roll and country and does so admirably. Continue reading
A great philosopher of our age often posits a question. It may be a rhetorical question, but one that every fan of heavy music finds themselves asking every day. It is not a question of faith, nor meant to invoke an existential crisis, but one far more important and intrinsic to the makeup of Heavy Metal. “Do you want heavy?”. Well, if the answer is yes – as it always should be – then look no further than Enterprise Earth.Continue reading
Pop Evil’s newest offering, Pop Evil (eOne), starts strong out of the gate, a glorious return to good old-fashioned, popular, light Heavy Metal. Dave Grahs and Nick Fuelling prove some nice chunky guitar work interplayed with air guitar worthy riffs. Leigh Kakaty provides vocals you can actually hear! Not only can you hear the vocals but they are also of a pitch and timbre that are pleasing to the ear. Best of all, you can sing along. Frat Boys, Norebang addicts, High Schoolers, Air Guitar and Air Drummers rejoice! An album for all of us!Continue reading
Black Label Society confirmed last month that they will be releasing their new album, Grimmest Hits, on January 19th, 2018 via Entertainment One (eOne). Along with that announcement came the ‘Room Of Nightmares’ video, and today they’ve unveiled the second video off the upcoming record.Continue reading
Zakk Wylde promised back in July that a new album from Black Label Society would be coming in 2018, and he kept his word. Continue reading
While he’s been largely silent over the years, it’s hard to argue with the either quality or the diversity of Rex Brown‘s output. From Pantera’s transition from glam to thrash to pure groove, to the swampy sludge of Down and Crowbar, to borderline country music with Rebel Meets Rebel, the bassist has done it all.Continue reading
Rex Brown recently confirmed that his highly anticipated solo album, entitled Smoke On This, will be released on July 28th via eOne. With that announcement, the legend shared the awesome ‘Crossing Lines’ single, and today we have the first official video off the upcoming record for your viewing and listening pleasure. Continue reading