The time is upon us! Mayhem Fest is right around the corner and this week we will start sending out private messages to junkies who will win tickets to the first round of shows. If you are living under a rock, we are giving away a pair of tickets to each stop of the tour. ...

Yes! Yes, and Yes Again! After revealing their album art last week, the 'don come back with a pretty titalting album teaser featuring our first taste of a track called "Black Tongue." It definitely sounds like Mastodon. While the band was promising a more raw sound, akin to their older material, and not so much ...

A few weeks ago, we hung out with Cerebral Bore, and Noa interviewed them. After the interview, Som was dying for a milk shake, so being the educated New Yorker I am, I brought them to the milk shake Mecca, the Shake Shack. Turns out that wasn't the only Big Apple hospitality the band got. ...

Bassists are sick of being music's punching bag, and this week is the week they are fighting back. First Coheed & Cambria's bassist gets arrested for trying to rob a pharmacy and now this. Bassist Nick Oliveri, formerly of Queens of the Stone Age and Kyuss was arrested last night after a dispute with his ...

Boris, Japan's Psychedelic/Noise/Avant-Garde/Experimental/ Metal band, have announced a long list of tour dates throughout both Europe and The United States in support of their simultaneous releases Attention Please and Heavy Rocks. The dates include support from Russian Circles, Tera Malos, Master Musicians of Bukkake, Coliseum, Asobi Seksu, Liturgy and True Widow. That's quite a diverse ...

Meet Viktoriya Yermolyeva, otherwise known as "Vika", an international award winning classical pianist turned metal piano shredder. This Ukrainian native has always been a complete artist with her instrument to say the least, but these days she likes to cover metal tunes and share them with people like myself who can't get enough. Watching Vika ...

While speculation of Behemoth frontman, Adam "Nergal" Darski, joining the Polish version of "The Voice" has yet to be confirmed by official sources, it has been confirmed that Bruce Dickinson, of heavy metal legends Iron Maiden, was asked to join the UK version of the hit TV Show. However, Bruce had a thing or two ...

I'm pretty certain we've done a horrible job at covering up the fact we're huge Gorod geeks fans as pointed out here, here, here, here, OK you get the idea. You certainly don't have to take our word for it. If you'd like to experience what the fuss is all about for yourself our hetero ...

As someone who has seen Decapitated twice since their last release, once with Vitek and once without, I have been very eager to hear any new material. When I saw them at Summer Slaughter last year, I was so impressed with how Vogg's new team managed to pull things off that felt confident the next ...

The bummer news this weekend goes to the passing of former Motorhead guitarist "Wurzel" who suffered heart disease at age 61. Michael "Wurzel" Burston left behind a decades worth of music with Motorhead, a couple solo records, and was reportedly in the middle of creating a record with his new band Leader of Down. Motorhead ...

Is SOUNDGARDEN really as great as they're made out to be? The answer can be heard approximately 57 seconds into "Outshined," but it took a few blasts of Superunknown and Badmotorfinger this weekend to make me forgive their listless set at the Prudential Center. Only four people in the nearly sold-out arena didn't seem thrilled ...

Just when you thought nothing funny would happen this weekend. TMZ reports that Michael Todd, bassist for Coheed And Cambria, was arrested in Attleboro, MA last night for armed robbery where he allegedly held up a Walgreens to score some Oxycontin. The real kicker here is that he allegedly wrote his demand on a cellphone ...

Welcome to another edition of Mainstream Resistance Podcast, or MSRcast for short. On this edition, the metal is flowing freely. We delve into lots of new releases in this episode ranging from Vicious Rumors, Anthrax, Pestilence, Amorphis and many more, as well as some killer underground metal. Keep it metal! vicious rumors -  blood stained ...

Jeff Loomis may no longer be in Nevermore, but that certainly won't stop him from bringing the world his shredtastic abilities. He is set to enter the studio on August 23rd to begin recording his second solo album (his first being the excellent Zero Order Phase). Loomis plans to bring in vocalist Christine Rhoades (who ...

Wow, it feels like it's been a long week… but we even had Monday off, so what am I complaining about? Either way, let's ring in this Friday with some new jams: Here is Suicide Silence's track with Korn's Jonathan Davis on guest vocals. I dig the track, not so much the Jonathan Davis part ...

Well this is sort of a bummer, bassist extraordinaire Jeroen Paul Thesseling has announced his departure from technical heavyweights Obscura. Thesseling cites scheduling conflicts as his reason for leaving, which sucks because he was a very vitol part of what made the band rule. Here is his official statement: "Due to repetitive conflicting schedules with ...