by Kyle Finlan | Feb 26, 2025 | Photos, Reviews
70000 Tons of Metal is quite the absurd experience; it takes two concepts: metal music, with black shirts, bombasticness, and passionate fans, all mixed on a luxury cruise line, which are usually the antithesis of metal (show tunes and suit jackets in the dining...
by Chris Loomis | Feb 25, 2025 | Photos, Reviews
Max Cavalera is without a doubt the God of Heavy Music . . . Sepultura, Soulfly, Killer Be Killed, Go Ahead and Die, Nailbomb and Cavalera Conspiracy – Max’s music seems to get more extreme as the years go by and the fans seem to embrace that approach with open arms....
by Lisa Burke | Feb 20, 2025 | Reviews
Heavy metal can be an excellent therapy for lots of fans to get through lots of disheartening times. Ironically and charmingly, there happened to be the fun of bringing a death metal tour to Los Angeles at 1720 on Valentine’s Day. The Terrifying North America...
by Mar Morannon | Feb 19, 2025 | Photos, Reviews
Tyr returned to Tampa for the first time in over a decade, bringing a fun night of melodies, headbanging, and hammers. Leading into the show, Tampa had a fairly typical afternoon rain shower that was accompanied by a brief loss of power in the area surrounding The...
by Jordeana Bell | Feb 19, 2025 | Reviews
I would never intentionally start a war over it, but Metal Blade Records is my absolute favorite label. Brian Slagel does a phenomenal job at picking out the absolute best; it’s a brilliant feature. Mantar took me by surprise. The last album they put out,...
by Chris Loomis | Feb 19, 2025 | Photos, Reviews
The all-star death metal tours just keep coming . . . after Nile and Six Feet Under hit SoCal for two dates last week, The Modern Primitive in North America Tour 2025 featuring the Greek Death Metal Gods Speticflesh with direct support from VLTIMAS and Stormruler with...