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Somehow this flew under my radar, but consider me blown away after one listen. Elder is a stoner/doom metal band. I know that's an easy genre to groan over. And no doubt stoner doom deserves some of the pot shots thrown at it, what with its obsession with weed culture and oftentimes overly...

We could debate until the sun and moon disappear about what "progressive" truly means, or what defines "prog metal," but this is more about the newer bands that came out of the metalcore or djent or tech-death realm and have really come into their own lately. With Native Construct joining the...

HammerHeart is proud to present it's second festival, Ostarablot. Hosted by Triple Rock on March 18th and 19th, 2016. Ten bands, two days. HammerHeart will have a special beer for this festival, as well as special merch. MORE INFORMATION...

I know very few people are surprised to see this happening at his age, given his health history and his relationship to whiskey and other more potent substances. But watching the videos, I'm actually quite sad to see this. Lemmy taught a lot of us what the hell "Rock N Roll" really means. I...

I have watched the live DVD. I have listened to the albums multiple times. Multiple multiple times. But somehow a few tears came to my eyes this morning, forecasting weather patterns (listening to Weather Systems) on a Monday morning as Untouchable pt. 1 and 2 played through my speakers. I...

So Voyager is doing some cool things with their setlists at ProgPower - on Wednesday they're playing an album in full and during the main fest they're doing a "fan-picked" setlist. But I haven't heard the results of the fan poll. Are they releasing those results or will it be a surprise? Does...

Sulphur Aeon - Gateway to the Antisphere It is streaming in full on Bandcamp. Holy shit, this album rules. I've known about these guys for a little bit (still a newer band). But this is thick, riff-heavy, death metal with everything you'd want without the campy goofiness that some death...

So I was listening to Sanctuary in the car the other day and realized "Battle Angels" is just perfect. Plenty of songs are good to my ears, but some songs are just perfect and never get old after repeated listens. I'll list some songs that I think are just perfect from start to finish, and I...

...BLACK CROWN INITIATE. After already providing support for Behemoth/Goatwhore, and then Rivers of Nihil in 2014, and then Napalm Death/Voivod/Iron Reagan earlier this year, these guys are opening yet another tour, with Deicide and Entombed: DEICIDE To Headline Fifth Annual 'Metal Alliance'...

...and why this festival still matters to heavy metal music and its tight-nit community of fans. Photos by Justin Richardson (aka mosquito): Let me know what you guys think. http://hellbound.ca/2014/11/progpower-still-matters/

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/mastodon-new-song-high-road-available-for-streaming/ I haven't hated a bit of this band's material, but I do think they peaked with Crack the Skye. Regardless, I like this song, and am interested in the direction they go with the album.

This is not a Kamelot thread. Really - I'm simply curious as to what Roy Khan has been up to for the past few years? Even though his newfound religion made him unfit for one of power metal's elite bands, he has to be alive doing something, right? His voice is too good to go to waste. I could...

Invisible Oranges has become one of my favorite online metal blogs. And stuff like this is why: The interviewer asks Bobby Blitz (vocalist, Overkill) to go through and comment on every single album in the band's catalog, which if you didn't know is quite long! This is a great read; Bobby is...

This is the way to do a prog metal video: puppets. Weird song gets a fitting video, and I dig it. Maybe you do too? Enjoy.

Hey guys, I'm going up to Chicago to see Saxon for the first time in a couple weeks, and I'm totally stoked. It took me a while to get into them, but when I did I fell hard...and started looking for the early albums on vinyl, which I found and listened to over and over. So I'm hooked. Would...

As some of you know, me and my friends like to stay up front for most if not all of the festival. We do take turns going out to do signing sessions and get a bathroom breaks...but it makes for a few long days. We do it to ourselves because we love the music so much. But what's the policy on...

So Myrath made a huge splash on this forum when Hope came out in 2007. I scooped it up at a vendor table that year and freaking adore the album. It definitely wore the Symphony X influence on its sleeve, but I thought it was solid, crunchy, melodic, and utterly fantastic. And the band is...

So I'm making my New Years resolution now. This time next year (or sometime in June), I want to go to at least one Euro fest. It's the next step. I've gone to ProgPower for eight years, Maryland Deathfest five times, and a number of smaller fests along the way. It's time to go to Europe...

I really don't care TOO much for the Sirius Satellite Radio metal channel. It plays good stuff maybe 50-60% of the time. Other time it's terrible radio rock, metalcore, Lamb of God, and other type shit. But if I'm bored I'll switch over and see what's playing. And I heard this band, and was...

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=186193 I know this is just a blabbermouth repost, but shit this rules. Apparently Elvenking had a concert and played a set of their stuff then had Martin fucking Walkyier on stage to do a set of Skyclad tunes. Amazing. Setlist...