Neilstein Soundscam 0 Metal Bands Ranked by Their Spotify Monthly Listener Counts for June 2020 June 5th, 2020 at 11:26am Vince Neilstein Most bands saw an increase in streams last month. Static-X, Ratt, Within Temptation, Protest the Hero, Enslaved and Veil of Maya were some of the big winners.
Shit That Comes Out Today 0 Sh*t That Comes Out Today: June 5, 2020 June 5th, 2020 at 9:35am Jeff Treppel Here’s your guide to this week’s heaviest new releases! Includes The Ghost Inside, Exhumed, -(16)-, and more!
Not Quite Metal? 0 Concert Pianist’s Rendition of Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters” Is Beautiful, Depressing June 4th, 2020 at 1:40pm Axl Rosenberg Don’t watch this if you’re already feeling down.
Music Premieres 0 Exclusive Premiere: Dining with Dogs Channel AmRep Nihilism in “Puzzled” June 4th, 2020 at 11:05am Vince Neilstein Some excellent AmRep-style noise rock with a nihilistic animated video.
New Stuff 0 Listen: Poppy Covers t.A.T.u.’s “All the Things She Said” June 4th, 2020 at 10:36am Vince Neilstein The crossover metal star takes on the 2002 pop hit.
Metal Tech 0 Music Streaming is Growing Again After Coronavirus Drop June 4th, 2020 at 10:11am Vince Neilstein People are beginning to return to their old habits and new consumers are joining them.
Studio Stuff 0 Cannibal Corpse are Recording a New Album June 4th, 2020 at 8:50am Vince Neilstein It’s not clear whether guitarist Pat O’Brien, who was arrested in 2018 after setting his home on fire, is involved.
Quarantinecast 0 Darkest Hour’s Mike Schleibaum on The Quarantinecast #15 June 3rd, 2020 at 2:00pm Vince Neilstein Darkest Hour’s Mike Schleibaum talks the challenges of the band’s Patreon, missing live music, chatting with metal musicians while on lockdown and more. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/quarantinechat/darkest_pod.mp3Podcast (quarantinecast): Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Spotify | RSS
Classic Concert of the Day 0 Classic Concert of the Day: Living Colour in Bologna, Italy, 1993 June 3rd, 2020 at 1:26pm Axl Rosenberg Filmed 27 years ago, almost to the day.
Not Quite Metal? 0 “JU$T”: Listen to Rage Against the Machine’s Zack de la Rocha Guest on New Run the Jewels Track June 3rd, 2020 at 12:38pm Axl Rosenberg The Rage Against the Machine frontman previously appeared on RtJ’s 2014 track, “Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck).”
Pummeling Politics 0 Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic Praises Donald Trump’s Speech June 3rd, 2020 at 11:41am Vince Neilstein Novoselic says Trump “knocked it out the park” and praised the president’s “strong and direct” words.
Pummeling Politics 0 Video: 10-Year-Old Covers Rage Against the Machine for Black Lives Matter June 3rd, 2020 at 10:49am Vince Neilstein She’s also covered Metallica, System of a Down, Nirvana and more.
Pummeling Politics 0 M. Shadows Supports the Black Lives Matter Movement in New Op-Ed June 3rd, 2020 at 10:38am Axl Rosenberg “We can be the ones — the rock and metal community — to reach out and show the compassion that I know is in us all to help raise up our fellow humans.”
Coronavirus 0 Steel Panther Frontman Says He Misses His Bandmates: “We Love Each Other” June 1st, 2020 at 1:36pm Vince Neilstein Michael Starr also reveals that the final show he attended before the lockdown was David Lee Roth opening for Kiss.
New Stuff 0 Defeated Sanity Debut New Single “Imposed Corporeal Inhabitation” June 1st, 2020 at 12:33pm Axl Rosenberg Would you like some dressing with your riff salad?
Podcast 0 Within Temptation’s Sharon den Adel on The MetalSucks Podcast #340 June 1st, 2020 at 12:26pm MetalSucks We discuss the band's latest standalone single, "Entertain You," why people film altercations instead of helping out and more.
Editorials 0 New Times of Grace Music is Coming Very Soon June 1st, 2020 at 10:42am Vince Neilstein The Killswitch Engage side project has begun teasing new music.
Cinemetal 0 Slipknot Stream Entire 2019 Concert in Belgium June 1st, 2020 at 9:16am Vince Neilstein Available for a limited time only. Also: concerts by Underoath and Code Orange.
Pummeling Politics 0 Five Finger Death Punch Singer Says Minneapolis Cops Deserve an “Obvious F*cking Need for Justice” May 31st, 2020 at 11:37am Vince Neilstein The singer broke with his band’s conservative base to express support for George Floyd. He also says he thinks the U.S. is reopening too early in the wake of the pandemic.
Breaking the Law 0 Dino Cazares Says He Will Never Speak to Former Fear Factory Bandmates Again, “Not Ever” May 31st, 2020 at 12:02am Vince Neilstein The Fear Factory guitarist says “peoples’ lives and careers continue to be ruined” by the ongoing lawsuit over the band’s name.
