New England Metal & Hardcore Festival returns on Saturday, September 20, 2025 at The Palladium Outdoors in Worcester, Massachusetts Launched in 1999, New England Metal & Hardcore Festival became a cornerstone of the metal and […]
Heavy Song of the Week is a feature on Heavy Consequence breaking down the top metal, punk, and hard rock tracks you need to hear every Friday. This week, No. 1 goes to Midnight for […]
Japanese pop metal band BABYMETAL has signed to Capitol Records, which will release the group’s new album, “Metal Forth”, on June 13. Meaning “beyond metal,” “Metal Forth” features collaborations with Poppy, SPIRITBOX, Tom Morello, BLOODYWOOD, […]
BABYMETAL have announced their fourth album, appropriately dubbed METAL FORTH, arriving June 13th via new label home Capitol Records. The LP will feature collaborations with several notable artists. The next single and album opener, “from […]
BABYMETAL have unveiled the details of their upcoming new album ‘METAL FORTH’, set for release on June 13 via Capitol Records. Featuring the previous single ‘RATATATA’ with Electric Callboy, it also includes collaborations with Spiritbox, […]
Getty Image / Nicola Gell The ‘Doom Metal’ band Pentagram from Alexandria, Virginia has been around in some form or another, off and on since the early 1970s but the band is having a viral […]
Mining Metal is a monthly column from Heavy Consequence contributing writers Langdon Hickman and Colin Dempsey. The focus is on noteworthy new music emerging from the non-mainstream metal scene, highlighting releases from small and independent […]
Former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson is the host of a new podcast. The David Ellefson Show will stream bi-weekly via YouTube and other podcast platforms starting with its debut episode featuring Anthrax bassist Frank Bello […]
Here are the 25 best metal songs of the last 25 years. It has been a wild ride since 2000 dawned a new age for metal with an explosion of subgenres and hybridization that still […]
Here are the 9 best non-hair metal albums released by hair metal bands. The 1980s were synonymous with larger-than-life personas, infectious, anthemic choruses, long, flowing locks, skin-tight leather, and guitars drenched in reverb and distortion. […]
Mauricio Umansky On the Mend After Skiing Accident … Fresh New Bling in My Collarbone!!! Published February 16, 2025 5:33 PM PST Mauricio Umansky‘s going to have some trouble going through metal detectors for the […]
‘Full Metal Jacket’ Kevyn Major Howard Dead at 69 Published February 15, 2025 1:15 PM PST Kevyn Major Howard, best known for his portrayal as Rafterman in “Full Metal Jacket,” has died, his family tells […]
Saturday Night Live cast members Sarah Sherman and Bowen Yang front the fictional hair-metal band Naumôre Dandruf in a new commercial for CeraVe’s Hydrating Anti-Dandruff Shampoo and Conditioner. The ad was filmed as a partnership […]
ROCK veteran Ozzy Osbourne will play his final EVER show this summer, amid his worsening battle with Parkinson’s disease. The music icon has announced he will return to the stage one more time with his […]
Gojira collected the award for Best Metal Performance at the 2025 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles last night (February 02). The band were honoured for their version of ‘Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)’ which they […]
Gojira won the 2025 Grammy for Best Metal Performance on Sunday (February 2nd). The award was presented during the Premiere Ceremony that streamed online prior to the main televised ceremony. The French metal band took […]
Here are 11 rock and metal bands who’ve concurrently used two or more drummers! Usually, a band needs only one drummer to set the tempo; spice things up with tricky fills and solos; and dive […]
Robert Trujillo (METALLICA),Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth (OVERKILL),John Bush (ARMORED SAINT),Doc Coyle (BAD WOLVES, GOD FORBID),Marty Friedman (MEGADETH),Gary Holt (SLAYER, EXODUS),Andreas Kisser (SEPULTURA),Jeff Loomis (ARCH ENEMY, NEVERMORE),Mark Tornillo (ACCEPT),Troy Sanders (MASTODON) and Alissa White-Gluz (ARCH ENEMY) are […]
Alex Gould/Special for The Republic “For those about to rock, we salute you!” The “those” in this case are graduates of Summa College in Eindhoven, Netherlands who are taking part in one of the school’s […]
Before we can dive into bands who are wrongly labeled hair metal, we must ask ourselves: what exactly defines hair metal? Is it the teased hair? The extravagant stage garb and makeup? Songs about partying […]