AltWeeklies Wire
DragonForce's Latest is its Finest to Datenew
The album's title -- Ultra Beatdown -- is apt, since after enduring the eight epic tracks (the shortest clocking in at more than five minutes), one feels absolutely pummeled by the pure, unadulterated shred unleashed by lead guitarist Herman Li.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
10-30-2008 |
Reviews
The Best of the Worst: Metal's Most Notorious Album Coversnew
Heavy metal and Halloween go hand in hand.In that spirit, let's take a closer look at some of metal’s most notorious album covers.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Keith Carman |
10-30-2008 |
Music
Wastelander Wears Poor Production Values Like a Badge of Honornew
Toxic Holocaust may have unveiled the most polished post-apocalyptic metal release of 2008, but Wastelander offers the most inspired, with the no-budget, yet ferocious Wardrive.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
10-15-2008 |
Reviews
Exmortus Has That '80s-Metal Feelnew
The group's full-length debut, In Hatred's Flame, burns with the ambition of teenage metalheads striving to be as epic as inhumanly possible.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
09-18-2008 |
Reviews
One of the Best in the Metal Game: As I Lay Dyingnew
Forget pop-punk and beach-bunny troubadours -- these North County headbangers are becoming the biggest metal band in the land
San Diego CityBeat |
Seth Combs |
09-10-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Is the DragonForce Joke Getting Old?new
Take away the absurdly fast tempos, the wacky solos, and the glam-metal attitude, and you’re left with old-fashioned butt rock. And didn’t we all collectively purge ourselves of butt rock two decades ago?
Washington City Paper |
Arthur Delaney |
08-25-2008 |
Reviews
Phoenix Metal Band Fracture Point Sounds Like a Mastodon Stampedenew
But instead of directionless destruction, this beast intelligently winds its way through a well-constructed maze of down-tuned guitars, burly bass lines, screaming solos, and tricky timing changes.
Phoenix New Times |
Niki D'Andrea |
07-22-2008 |
Reviews
Page Six is a Long Way from Black Tide's South Florida Homenew
It's safe to assume it was the first time a bunch of West Kendallites appeared in the New York Post's infamous gossip column. And it's especially notable because they did so for indirectly inciting a minor riot in L.A. alongside a famously celebrated, then disgraced, then semi-redeemed memoirist.
Miami New Times |
Arielle Castillo |
07-21-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Miami's Torche Recasts Metalnew
With Meanderthal, Torche joins the current crop of innovative heavy bands rising from the South, each of them taking historical reverence for divergent forms and funneling it into iconoclastic, brazen hard metallic shapes.
INDY Week |
Grayson Currin |
07-03-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
How a Cartoon Band Landed a Real-life Tournew
Brendon Small earned his hardcore musical cred in a most unusual manner – through a cartoon. He is the creator, writer and main voice actor of the hit cartoon series, Metalocalypse.
NOW Magazine |
Evan Davies |
06-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Is Metallica's Bonnaroo Appearance a Sign of the Apocalypse?new
You naysayers can go down with a whimper, but we are offering what we feel is the last, best hope for the survival of mankind: a guide for hippie-metalhead diplomacy.
Nashville Scene |
Jack Silverman |
06-13-2008 |
Concerts
Mushroomhead's Old Frontman Returns with a New Bandnew
Jason Popson split from Cleveland's reigning rock kings in 2004, and his new group, Pitch Black Forecast, marks a return to the spotlight.
Cleveland Scene |
D.X. Ferris |
05-09-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Megadeth is Not Dead Yetnew
Frontman Dave Mustaine on life after 25 years of Megadeth.
Montreal Mirror |
Johnson Cummins |
04-25-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Rolling Freenew
Having been through divorce, rehab and the death of her father since the demise of Royal Trux, Jennifer Herrema could be forgiven if she indulged in some self-pity, but her first first record with the boys of RTX is a furious heavy metal celebration of freedom and renewal.
L.A. Weekly |
Daniel Chamberlin |
09-13-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
