by Metal Insider | Jun 19, 2012 | Interviews
As one of the biggest bands in metalcore right now, Knoxville, TN-based Whitechapel keeps doing things to defy genre pigeonholing. Their fourth album Whitechapel is arguably their heaviest, most death metal-sounding release yet, and with a high-profile stint on the...
by Metal Insider | Jun 18, 2012 | Interviews
Metal Insider’s sister site, The Laugh Button, is all about the comedy. They recently attended the Just For Laughs Chicago festival, where they ran into Brian Posehn, who was there to peform The Nerd Show with fellow comedians Pete Holmes, Brent Weinbach, Dan...
by Bram Teitelman | Jun 5, 2012 | Interviews, Metal on Metal
30 years ago, record store employee Brian Slagel put out a compilation of local bands called The New Heavy Metal Revue presents Metal Massacre. That compilation, the first release on Metal Blade Records, included a little band called Metallica, as well as Ratt, Black...
by Bram Teitelman | May 31, 2012 | Interviews
Lita Ford has been through quite a bit in the last few years: a ‘comeback’ album that she was merely a participant in (2010’s poorly-received Wicked Wonderland), a painful separation from her husband and children, and almost getting hit by a train,...
by Metal Insider | May 25, 2012 | Interviews
That’s right, compadres. Over the course of two albums and a handful of EPs, Brooklyn’s Goes Cube have staked out their own course in music, combining elements of hardcore, post rock, and noise into a taut package. Last year’s In Tides and Drifts was...
by Zach Shaw | May 16, 2012 | Interviews
It’s a beautiful Saturday afternoon outside the Palladium Theatre in Worcester, MA. But after playing an early and criminally short set at the New England Metal & Hardcore Festival’s second day, Doc Coyle has no time to relax in the sun. He’s rushing around...