by Zach Shaw | Oct 7, 2013 | Top 5
Rivers Of Nihil is arguably one of Metal Blade’s finest recent death metal signings. While the Reading, PA five piece’s first full-length offering The Conscious Seed Of Light (out on October 15) captures the brutality of classic death metal, it also blends in the...
by Zach Shaw | Oct 1, 2013 | Top 5
Craig Locicero has gone from shredding in thrash legends Forbidden to riffing with stoner hard rockers SpiralArms. With that in mind, we asked the guitarist to share both his top five favorite Bay Area thrash bands, as well as his top five influences while playing in...
by Zach Shaw | Sep 23, 2013 | Top 5
Steve Rennie has over thirty years of experience in the music business, including having been a senior VP/GM at Epic Records and currently managing Incubus. His background in the industry led Rennie to develop Renman Music and Business as a web platform for the...
by Metal Insider | Sep 16, 2013 | Top 5
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. Rock stars are often perceived as being larger than life. Posters, album covers, and band photos are shot from low camera angles with the band looking down at the lens. We...
by Zach Shaw | Sep 9, 2013 | Top 5
Metal Insider’s Top 5 is a column where we count down the top five of…well basically anything. For better or worse, metal and hard rock has often been associated with motorcycles and biker gangs. So it’s unsurprising that there would be some sort of crossover between...
by Zach Shaw | Sep 3, 2013 | Top 5
Labor day weekend may mark the end of the summer, but GWAR Beer is perfect for chugging down during any season. “This goes well with everything,” Oderus Urungus declared about GWAR’s recently launched line of beer. “It’s hard to name a top five when you have a product...