by Bram Teitelman | Apr 8, 2014 | Metal on Metal, New Music, News, Touring
20 years ago, Fu Manchu’s debut album, No One Rides For Free, was released. And while it was 1994, it might as well have been 1974, given the band’s fuzzy, scuzzy Sabbath-y stoner rock and obsession with cars, surfing, skateboarding and weed. Now the band...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 26, 2014 | Metal on Metal, New Music, News
Once you realize that the new Autopsy album, out April 29th on Peaceville, is titled Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves, it becomes pretty evident that they’re not reinventing the wheel. However, it’s still a pretty damn terrifying wheel. Just look at that...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 26, 2014 | Metal on Metal
From the outside, the experimental drug-fueled alt rock of Butthole Surfers and the anarchic performance metal of GWAR aren’t all that close together. However, both bands started in the ’80s with punk as a common thread of their music, and were among the...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 25, 2014 | Metal on Metal
The Gaslight Anthem isn’t particularly metal, but if you like Bruce Springsteen and/or Social Distortion and/or bands that sound like Social Distortion covering Bruce Springsteen, then you might be familiar with them. And if you’re an Every Time I Die fan...
by Bram Teitelman | Mar 21, 2014 | Interviews, Metal on Metal, News
[youtube]http://youtu.be/zKe8jze56Vg[/youtube] While Avatar’s fifth album, Hail the Apocalypse, is coming out May 13th, to many Americans, it’s only their second. 2012’s Black Waltz was the first album to come out stateside, but the Swedish band has...
by Matt Brown | Mar 20, 2014 | Metal on Metal
The teasing of bands for Summer Slaughter continues with the latest posting on the tour’s Facebook page: Wrath of Vishnu This is title of one of Origin’s songs off of Antithesis. The band has a new album titled Omnipresent set to come out this year,...