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Interviews
So the story goes, Tom “Angelripper” Such started Sodom as a last ditch effort to escape a life of working in the coal mines in Germany in 1981, naming the band after black metal forefathers Venom’s “A Thousand Days in Sodom.” After replacing the group’s original drummer with
Concert Reviews
Norwegian black metal pioneers Emperor played a raucous show at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn this past Saturday night on the second stop of their 2025 North American Tour celebrating 31 years of their 1994 groundbreaking debut album In The Nightside Eclipse. Led by the strong songwriting acumen of frontman and
Interviews
Though he may not have known it at the time, Alexander Kuoppala’s eight-year tenure in Children of Bodom would prepare him for his future endeavors in music education. When he joined the group in 1995 when they were still called IneartheD, he was five years older than most
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When asked about Mario Lalli while being interviewed for a documentary about the desert rock scene he grew up in, Josh Homme of Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age fame described him this way: “Mario is the one guy who I always thought deserved the most credit for everything.
Features
“It sounds like Zakk Wylde, but better.” – Zakk Wylde This is the way that Zakk Wylde, Ozzy Osbourne’s axeman for decades and widely regarded as one of the best metal guitarists in the world, characterized the playing of Finnish guitar hero Alexi Laiho. If you don’t come from
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Porcupine Tree band leader Steven Wilson started his 2022 autobiography, Limited Edition of One, with a story about the band’s last show before the start of their well-known hiatus that began in 2010. He wrote that subconsciously, while playing before a sold out crowd at the famous Royal
News
In a statement released on their social media channels this afternoon, Mastodon announced that after 25 years they have agreed to mutually part ways with long-time lead guitarist and vocalist Brent Hinds. The full statement can be seen below: As the statement says, the band will continue to honor
Interviews
Since their inception in 1997, Elvenking have never fit squarely into one genre or category in the world of metal. On a surface level, the casual listener might blindly generalize them into power metal genre based on Davide “Damna” Moras’ soaring vocals and Federico “Aydan” Baston’s fast-paced riffing
Interviews
When Swedish melodic death metal legends Arch Enemy were about to enter to studio to record Burning Bridges in 1999, which would become one of their most iconic releases, they were facing a bit of an issue: they needed a bassist. The group had just returned from playing tour dates
Album Reviews
The story of Mike Portnoy’s return to Dream Theater is pretty well known in most metal circles at this point. What was intended to be a brief hiatus in 2010 turned into a thirteen year absence while his bandmates continued on without him. Slowly but surely though, Portnoy began
Interviews
In early 1991, Dream Theater were dangerously close to calling it quits. The promising young group, which formed at Berklee College of Music in Boston in the mid-1980s under the original name Majesty, had let go original lead singer Charlie Dominici shortly after their 1989 debut record When Dream
Failure has never really been an option for Jamey Jasta. He started out in the music business in his early teens during the mid-1990s and he has yet to look back. When interviewed about his initial impressions of meeting Jamey as a teenager, Brian Fair of Shadows Fall had