by Bram Teitelman | Dec 19, 2016 | New Music, Updates
While the first four Mastodon albums had overarching themes (fire, water, earth, the ether), their first full-on concept album was 2011’s Crack the Skye, and while polarizing, has many fans. In an interview with Rolling Stone, drummer/singer...
by Bram Teitelman | Oct 3, 2016 | Tool Insider, Updates
It’s been over a decade since Tool released an album, and its fans are growing impatient. Impatient enough for frontman Maynard James Keenan to sarcastically brand Tool superfans as “retards.” But also long enough that Keenan’s side project...
by Bram Teitelman | Sep 6, 2016 | Video
At this point, Slayer’s videos from Repentless are an ultraviolent trilogy that seem more fitting of Sons of Anarchy or Oz than anything you’d expect to see a band put out. The “Repentless” video ended with a prison right, and “You...
by Alix Vallecillo | Aug 15, 2016 | Columns, Top 5
If you’ve seen the feed on your social media or spoken to your nerdy friends in the past few weeks, you probably heard about this show called Stranger Things. The Netflix show is an homage to all things ’80s, referencing important...
by Zach Fehl | May 19, 2016 | Metal on Metal, News, Video
The San Diego based deathgrind band Cattle Decapitation have, somehow, raised the bar for disgustingly brutal videos once again with the release of the CENSORED version of “Clandestine Ways (Krokodil Rot),” from their most recent album The Anthropocene...