Posted by Zenae Zukowski on December 26, 2019
Another year has flown by, and this one also marks the end of the decade. I just wrapped up my list for the best metal albums of 2019, and now, It’s time to list the performances or concerts that I’ve personally enjoyed the most this year. Let’s get to it. 10) Gojira – […]
Posted by Mark Zapata on September 5, 2019
Triptykon joined forces with the Dutch Metropole Orkest for a special Celtic Frost-inspired live performance at this year’s edition of the annual Roadburn Festival. Triptykon, with ex-Celtic Frost vocalist and guitarist Tom G. Warrior at the helm, performed a three-part requiem including “Rex Irae” off of Celtic Frost‘s Into The Pandemonium, “Winter” off Monotheist, with […]
Posted by Jeff Podoshen on April 29, 2019
Metal Insider’s Zenae Zukowski and Jeff Podoshen were on hand to fully cover Decibel Magazine’s 2019 Metal and Beer Festival this past April 13-14. Contributor Jeff Podoshen, who studies HR Giger in his life as an academic, was able to meet up with Tom G Warrior right before his performance with Triptykon at the festival. […]
Posted by Metal Insider on April 19, 2019
The line moved a lot smoother to walk inside the Fillmore on day 2 of Decibel Metal & Beer Fest. This time around, we had plenty of time to taste a beer or two to help cure the hangover before Outer Heaven’s set. – Zenae Zukowski Outer Heaven There was a lot of buzz about […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on June 25, 2018
Decibel Metal & Beer Fest is heading out to Los Angeles for the first time on Saturday and Sunday on December 1st and 2nd. Headliners will include Testament, who will perform 1988’s The New Order and 1999’s The Gathering in its entirety, while Tom Gabriel Fischer-led Triptykon is scheduled to play a full Celtic […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on April 15, 2016
Artist Vincent Castiglia is well-known not just for his art, but for his medium, which is human blood. If that rings a bell, then you’re probably most familiar with his work that was done on a canvas known as Slayer and Exodus guitarist Gary Holt’s guitar. The guitarist gave 18 vials of his blood to […]
Posted by Matt Brown on January 8, 2015
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. As is typical of the New Year, we don’t have any debuts this week. That’s soon to change, but for now all we have to tell you is that Taylor Swift is still number […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on December 11, 2014
Most of the time when Rolling Stone writes about metal, it’s done pretty dismissively or covering bands much more mainstream, like Metallica. That’s why we weren’t all that surprised then their list of the top 50 albums of 2014 only contained one metal album, Yob’s Clearing the Path to Ascend. However, they’ve pretty much atoned for that […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on December 11, 2014
As the year in music winds down, we’ve given plenty of artists a chance to reveal their favorite music of the year. Now it’s our turn. We’ve already given you Zach Shaw’s, Nick DeSimone’s, Anthony Maisano’s and Chris Colgan’s. Now we bring you Chip McCabe’s list. Chip’s weekly column Dissident Aggression tends to focus on more […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on November 20, 2014
While you’ll have to wait until next month to get our picks for our top albums of the year, print magazines have a longer lead time. Therefore, Revolver have released their picks for top 20 albums of the year. Slipknot tops the list, which is hardly surprising given that it was one of the most anticipated […]
