Maximus Frank shares some thoughts on the Houston “Day for Night” festival, featuring Aphex Twin, Kamasi Washington, John Carpenter and more.

“The guy is a liar and corrupt. He has really screwed a lot of people in his lifetime and I think he’s gonna do a lot of bad stuff.”

“Granted, I’m a hopeless Metallica fan. I will always and forever listen to anything they put out, and while I won’t always love it (LULU is mind bogglingly awful), they are The Beatles/Led Zeppelin of my life.”

This week’s top stories include Babymetal, Five Finger Death Punch, Megadeth, and more.

Blames his white power salute at Dimebash on hecklers in the front row antagonizing him.

“Yet day in and day out I’m disgusted by the method and tone by which you advocate for values that I myself share. Why is that?”

Members of Moon Tooth and Cryptodira recap the past week’s NHL action.

Includes Lacuna Coil, Testament, Deftones, and more.

Listen to all 50+ heavy new releases that just don’t give a fuck: Worm Ouroboros, Nails, Hollow Earth, Cowards, Voidhanger, and tons more.

The programmer and host of SiriusXM’s Liquid Metal and Octane channels has become an ambassador for the entire genre.

WARNING: This story will make you go cross-eyed.

Corey is a thinker, an artist, an author, a leader and a positive role model in a scene that has very few.

“If you are a gun owner in this country and you actually think somebody is gonna come to your house and take your gun away…uh….maybe you shouldn’t be a gun owner.”

Production is well under way.

“Lizard Man” shows off Nazi tattoos in”tattoo tour” video.

The Giants are looking good, the Panthers are looking bad, the Ravens and Steelers strive for mediocrity and Rob Ryan’s hair is metal.

60+ heavy new releases now playing in here. Sick Of It All, Thomas Giles, HammerFall, Dark Tranquillity, Attila, MYR, and tons more.

Who the fuck is the target audience for this?

Okay, 62 more legit heavy new releases in your butt. The Answer, Testament, Avenged Sevenfold, Helmet, Death Fetishist, Car Bomb, Anaal Nathrakh, Crowbar, and tons more.

Remember when Taylor almost joined Anthrax? How awesome would that’ve been?