by Zenae Zukowski | Oct 3, 2025 | Interviews, New Music, Releases, Reviews
2000 marked a pivotal year for the rise of nu metal. While the genre had already exploded by the mid-to-late nineties, the turn of the millennium felt like its mecca, when bands like Slipknot, Linkin Park, Deftones, KoRn, Disturbed, and System of a Down (to name a...
by Ian Weber | Oct 1, 2025 | Photos, Reviews
In the time separating Alestorm, Cannibal Corpse, and Lorna Shore in the coming weeks, this autumn is absolutely overflowing with the premier Halloween season tours. Fall’s looking formidable, but we needed to inflate metal’s sing-song style in our lives...
by Emily Schneider | Sep 26, 2025 | Reviews
When it comes to metal subgenres, one that I find has quite a bit of deviation is melodeath (melodic death metal). Some have great guitar hooks, others have big portions of synth atmospheres. Then, there’s Mors Principium Est. They emphasize the...
by Mar Morannon | Sep 26, 2025 | Photos, Reviews
A cool September night in Madison set the stage for an eclectic and unforgettable triple bill: Apocalyptica, Lindsey Stirling, and Halestorm at Breese Stevens Field. Each act brought their own brand of theatricality and firepower, creating a show that felt as much...
by Emily Schneider | Sep 25, 2025 | Reviews
The Borderland. It’s a space in-between, a place that can’t be described in one word, or even one sentence. It’s also a perfectly chosen title for the 15th album from progressive metal masters Amorphis. The Borderland is, we know this connection with...
by Jordeana Bell | Sep 24, 2025 | Reviews
In some alternative universe where we all got high GPA’s for playing air guitar, Dave Davidson would have tenure at MIT’s Department of Rhythmic Physics. Instead, he’s still out here writing songs about our impending technological demise, masterfully soloing with jazz...