by Alix Vallecillo | Feb 29, 2016 | News, Updates
Earlier this year, we found out actor Christian Bale got himself into some good ol’ heavy metal for his role in the Academy Award-nominated film The Big Short. The film was nominated for many awards this year and one of the categories it won was the “Best...
by Nick DeSimone | Feb 26, 2016 | Amplified
If tempo is what you crave, holy cow is Houston’s Some Nerve exactly the prescription. The band describes themselves as a mix of crossover thrash, crust, and skate punk, which is a pretty apt summation overall: Vultures is their second EP, this one being a...
by Alix Vallecillo | Feb 26, 2016 | News, Touring, Updates
If you’re older than 20, you may remember the boom of nu metal bands coming out at the beginning of this century like Drowning Pool, Taproot and Ill Niño. While most of us completely forgot about these bands, apparently some of them are still playing nowadays...
by Bram Teitelman | Feb 26, 2016 | News, Video Games
Remember Powerman 5000? The nu-metal band’s biggest hit was “When Worlds Collide,” which was pretty popular upon it’s release in 1999. Perhaps popular enough to have been ripped off 11 years later for a Final Fantasy game, even. We’re not...
by Chip McCabe | Feb 26, 2016 | Dissident Aggression
It is safe to say at this stage of the game that death metal is currently enjoying quite the renaissance. That’s not to say that the genre withered and died at any point, or that there weren’t quality acts to be found. On the contrary, since the...