Tour Announcement Doom rock icons THE OBSESSED will join Clutch and Devin Townsend Project for a final run of shows to close out the year. The month-long journey begins tonight, November 29th in Greensboro, North Carolina and will draw to a close December 31st in Columbus, Ohio with additional THE OBSESSED only shows scattered throughout the tour. See all confirmed dates below. …
Interview: Jon Howard of Threat Signal. We have known the lads in Threat Signal for a number of years, and you can even see them in our shirts in videos and on tour (Because they love how comfy they are, but love us too!), so we do have a long history with this band of …
WHITECHAPEL will kick off their North American headlining tour this Friday. Commemorating the tenth anniversary of the band’s The Somatic Defilement release, the A Decade Of Defilement tour will run from November 10th through December 16th and find WHITECHAPEL performing select tracks from The Somatic Defilement, some of which have not been played since the album’s release. Support will be provided by Carnifex, Rings Of …
CANNIBAL CORPSE will kick off their US headlining tour in support of their upcoming Red Before Black full-length next week. The tour will commence on November 3rd and run through December 8th with support provided by Power Trip and Gatecreeper. See all confirmed dates below. Many words come to mind when you hear the name CANNIBAL CORPSE, but one truly defines the soon-to-be …
GOATWHORE will join 1349 and labelmates Tombs for a short run of live dates leading up to their performance at this year’s edition of Ozzfest Meets Knotfest in San Bernardino, California. The band will kick off the journey with a warm up show Lafayette, Louisiana Friday, October 27th before joining 1349 and Tombs in Memphis, Tennessee …
Australian deathcore group, Thy Art Is Murder, packs a powerful punch with their live shows. On their most recent tour through the United States promoting their fourth album “Dear Desolation”, released on Nuclear Blast, they played a 13-song setlist filled with old favorites and some new jams including their single “Slaves Beyond Death” which was …
AFTERSHOCK 2015 We have been to, and covered, almost every Aftershock Festival and we are absolutely stoked to be there again at a new location! Last year, between the drought, dust and the heat, the fans really needed to pay attention to staying hydrated, and alcohol intake. Even with the heat and dust, the show …
I was fortunate enough to have the honor of tracking along on this tour across the US, getting myself into trouble, and capturing some amazing moments across this country with some amazing musicians from California and Brisbane, Australia. Most of the antics can not really be put into the public, but let’s just say it …
We have been covering Mayhem Festival for a number of years, and it was the basic replacement for Ozzfest. We always liked Ozzfest so much more, as it was the premiere showcase for the latest in metal, and had so many upcoming bands on the roster. Mayhem took over that mantra, but had been losing …
King Parrot are notorious for their incredible live show, and of course their amazing and wild music videos! While recording their new album, Dead Set, at Philip Anselmo’s place, they decided to make a music video. And it didn’t disappoint! Whenever the guys roll through San Francisco, CA we always put them up, and they always show …
The Metalluminati invaded Aftershock Festival in Sacramento, CA, and we braved the extreme temperatures, dust clouds, and crowds to get some pictures of some great bands over the two day festival. CROWDS EYES SET TO KILL HELL YEAH BLACK LABEL SOCIETY CHEVELLE LIMP BIZKIT ATREYU WE CAME AS ROMANS …
Here are some of the pictures we took at Mayhem Festival 2014 at Shoreline in Mountain View, CA KORN ASKING ALEXANDRIA TRIVIUM SUICIDE SILENCE MISS MAY I DARKEST HOUR MUSHROOMHEAD
Alex Winter’s ‘Downloaded’ takes a look back at Napster and its effect on today’s music biz.
If you couldn’t make it out to see this year’s Mayhem Fest in-person, here’s what you missed…
Our good friends in Recoil VOR have been doing it DIY for a decade, and with their newest album released today Sleep for the Masses (you might even see Jeff in their music video at some point), we wanted to catch up with our buddy Wade McKay from down under. So I know you guys …
There is nothing wrong with getting clean… And you don’t have to go broke doing it!
Austin mainstayers Hoeks Death Metal Pizza‘s yearly SXSW metal fest was shut down earlier tonight by the Austin Police Department. The third annual Hoeks Metal Fest was slated to run from Tuesday through Saturday, during the entire duration of the five-day SXSW music festival. We talked to Hoeks owner Jason Adams a few minutes after the …
Amazon.com is probably the last survivor of online music retailers who were around during the birth of the interwebs. (R.I.P. CDNow) I remember being a routine Amazon visitor throughout my 20th Century childhood to prescreen potential album purchases in revelatory 30-second excerpts. Now, in the latest death knell for compact discs, Amazon has unveiled AutoRip. For …
Anti-religious sentiment has been a hallmark of metal since the genre was born. And in the decades since then, anti-religious tirades by metal musicians have gotten rather tired and predictable. But last year, the metal blogosphere was taken aback by Janaza, a purported “anti-Islamic black metal band fronted by a female in Iraq” who introduced …
Two weeks ago, Roadrunner Records (arguably the biggest metal label in the world) saw all of their international offices shut down by parent company Warner Music Group. It was the proverbial “other shoe [that] dropped” from late 2010, when the Dutch-based Roadrunner was fully bought out by Warner. Officially, it was a cost-cutting move typical of major label …
We talk a lot about organizing your own tours and releasing your own albums and merch. So, it’s about time we walked the walk, eh? With that, we present the Zombie Apocalypse Tour! We’ve linked up with fellow DIY anti-exploitationists Nemesis Records to bring you a trek of the American Frontier (west and southwest) starting …
A few weeks ago, we previewed Metal Injection‘s five-part On the Record documentary about the past decade metal. We especially were geeked to see the episode on how the Internet revolutionized the metal scene. Now, episode #3 of On the Record is out and has so many money-quotes that it’s hard for me to pick just one. …
I was reading Audriana Gate‘s article about the passing of Layne Staley, and felt I should write a quick post. You can follow Audriana on Twitter as well. It’s crazy to think that it has already been 10 years since Layne Staley passed away. He was actually found April 19, 2002, but had been dead in …
A few weeks ago, Jeff went to Vegas to ambush our buddies in Threat Signal for one of our first interviews everrrrr. (be sure to check that out too — lots of music biz and DIY advice!) So, this past weekend, Jeff got a text from frontman Jon Howard saying “Hey man, you will love our new video!” …
“The Internet — the thing that’s going to make my job obsolete!” That’s a half-joking remark made by Decibel Magazine editor-in-chief Albert Mudrian in the upcoming web documentary On the Record. Metal Injection (who produced the five-part series) say On the Record is a look at the past decade in metal, particularly the effects of the Internet on the …
As many of you know, it’s that time of year again when young, up-and-coming bands campaign online for fan votes to open the Vans Warped Tour in their home city. Let’s call this what it actually is: Free publicity for Warped Tour. Seeing as how Facebook and other social media is still unfamiliar waters for big-name …
If you don’t know what SXSW (South by Southwest) is, then you haven’t just been living under a rock — you have been living on another planet! I think my great friend, Joe Cannatelli of On the Fringe Studios, put it best: How do you describe it? You don’t! You have to experience it to even understand …
One of the last legitimate lines of defense we see for record labels these days is the notion that they can help your band go on tour. If you can’t scrounge together the connections to book your own shows or the finances for a van and some gas money, a label supposedly helps you with …
There are very few principles of metal that are embodied consistently across all of its subcultures — one is a no-compromise attitude and another is self-respect. These tenets have garnered nearly universal acclaim from all corners of the metal community for bands like Metallica (well, before the 90’s), Pantera, Death, and only a few others. But …
Bay Area prog/death metallers Dissipate will have a new album out soon. The band (and fellow Metalluminati supporters) have been in the studio working on the upcoming album for the past six months. If you like Animals As Leaders and Allegaeon, you will definitely love what these guys are doing. Check out guitarist Mike Gianelli showing off his Buckethead-esque chops …