by Bram Teitelman | Oct 27, 2016 | Prog Metal Musical Chairs, Updates
Instrumental prog-metal band Scale The Summit have undergone some lineup changes, with guitarist and mastermind Chris Letchford the only original member of the band. Bassist Mark Michell and drummer J.C. Bryant have left the band, and as Letchford explains, it was...
by Bram Teitelman | Oct 27, 2016 | News, Updates
While we’d known they were working on music, it came as a bit of a surprise earlier this month when Avenged Sevenfold unveiled “The Stage,” announced that they’d signed to Capitol Records and that their album would be coming out sometime before...
by Bram Teitelman | Oct 26, 2016 | Updates
Want to know information about the forthcoming Tool album? Just ask the band. Or maybe just crowd-source the internet from people that have. Tool proper haven’t been very forthcoming on what will be their first album since 2006, saying stuff, then retracting it....
by Bram Teitelman | Oct 26, 2016 | News, Updates
Mastodon are hard at work crafting their follow up to 2014’s Once More ‘Round the Sun in the studio, and they’re going to have a guest bassist on the album – drummer Brann Dailor. Dailor has been expanding his role in the band since 2007, when...
by Bram Teitelman | Oct 25, 2016 | News, Updates
If there’s one thing In Flames is known for, a stable lineup isn’t that thing. In fact, the band doesn’t have any original members from their first demo in 1993. With the near-constant departure of members, that’s led to some incarnations of...
by Bram Teitelman | Oct 20, 2016 | Updates
Of all the names included among the nominees for the Rock and Roll hall of Fame’s class of 2017, the one that was perhaps most surprising and of interest to fans of metal and hardcore was Bad Brains. Unlikely known to many people under 30, the Washington D.C....