The band was far from hired day players just showing up for a gig. They’re die-hard fans of The Witcher series themselves. Percival Schuttenbach is the band’s full name, though they’re commonly known as just […]
Cronos (VENOM),Tomas Lindberg (AT THE GATES),Scott Carlson (REPULSION),Johnny Hedlund (UNLEASHED) and Urskogr (SERPENT OMEGA) are among the special guests who performed with influential Swedish metallers ENTOMBED at their exclusive show last night (Thursday, July 14) […]
International metal group VENUS 5 made its live debut this past Saturday, July 9 at the Zurbarán Rock Burgos festival in Burgos, Spain. Fan-filmed video of the concert can be seen below. VENUS 5‘s self-titled […]
BLOODBATH, the Swedish/British death metal supergroup which features in its ranks KATATONIA‘s Jonas Renkse and Anders Nyström, along with ex-OPETH drummer Martin “Axe” Axenrot and PARADISE LOST frontman Nick Holmes, will release its sixth full-length […]
The highlight of Night 5 has to be a stand-up comedian who has the panel and us breathless we’re laughing so hard — and no, it’s not the guy who only tells jokes about bicycles. […]
Fan-filmed video of MANOWAR‘s June 22 concert in Athens, Greece during the “Crushing The Enemies Of Metal Anniversary Tour” can be seen below. Earlier this week, MANOWAR released a new digital EP, “The Revenge Of […]
Our 2022 Midyear Report continues with our favorite metal and hard rock albums of the year so far. The pandemic rages on, but the music industry has finally settled into some semblance of normalcy in […]
Frontiers Music Srl has just released the self-titled debut album from the new international metal group VENUS 5. VENUS 5 is composed of five singers: Italy’s Greta Di Iacovo (a.k.a. Herma; also of SICK N’ […]
Jack White admits a lot of heavy metal music goes “over his head” if it doesn’t have a blues element. The former White Stripes and Raconteurs frontman is a huge fan of heavy metal guitarists […]
Those of us who’ve watched all or some of the recently premiered Volume 1 of Stranger Things Season 4 have been captivated by the new character Eddie Munson, an ’80s metalhead who is also a […]
Along the lines of the infinite monkey theorem, if one was to program a group of AI-enhanced robots to create metal music, there’s every chance it would sound like Meshuggah. The Swedish tech-metal pioneers – […]
In a new interview, Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler said that “heavy metal” was a sarcastic term before it became the coined name for the music genre. Considering Black Sabbath are largely responsible for inventing […]
EDGUY frontman Tobias Sammet recently gave his first interview about “A Paranormal Evening With The Moonflower Society”, the upcoming album from his AVANTASIA project. Due in the fall via Nuclear Blast, the disc will be […]
Heavy metal and EDM collide on “Shivering,” the new collaborative track from DJ/producer Illenium and rising metal act Spiritbox. The song comes from Illenium’s upcoming Fallen Embers (Remixes) release, due out May 27th. The album […]
METAL GODS, described as the ultimate ode to JUDAS PRIEST and DIO featuring Tim “Ripper” Owens (JUDAS PRIEST, ICED EARTH, KK’S PRIEST) and Simon Wright (AC/DC, DIO),will tour Australia in October. The METAL GODS band […]
Mining Metal is a monthly column from Heavy Consequence writers Joseph Schafer and Langdon Hickman. The focus is on noteworthy new music emerging from the non-mainstream metal scene, highlighting releases from small and independent labels […]
Save for a festival performance at Download 2019, this is Tool’s first UK date in almost 15 years. Though time has not softened frontman Maynard James Keenan: “If grandpa can stand up and dance around […]
Metal Blade Records has reissued the legendary Metal Massacre Volume One compilation on vinyl for the first time since 1984. The repress dropped this past weekend on Record Store Day (April 22nd) to celebrate the […]
In a new interview with Rhys Bowler, former JUDAS PRIEST guitarist K.K. Downing spoke about the advent of thrash metal in the early 1980s and the impact that it had on the evolution of PRIEST‘s […]
Jonathan Young Last night Season 7 premiere of HBO’s Game of Thrones kicked off with the strongest opening scene of any season. If you’re a fan of the show based on George RR Martin’s A […]