Metal Insider top 5: Sophomore albums

It’s a cliche in music, but also the truth, that a band has their whole lives to create their first album, and only a year or two to write their second. So while a lot of sophomore albums find artists trying to recapture the magic of their first albums, or...

Dave Lombardo continues to diss next Slayer album

Did you like World Painted Blood, the last album from Slayer? We did. It was perfectly acceptable latter-day Slayer, even though it didn’t come close the the juggernaut of Reign in Blood, South of Heaven and Seasons in the Abyss. At any rate, former drummer Dave...