Ice Nine Kills frontman Spencer Charnas dropped two major announcements at the band’s Silver Scream Con in Worcester, Massachusetts: a Christmas EP (Sumerian Records) out November 9th, 2026, and The Silver Scream 3: Every Flick in the Book coming in 2027. The band also announced the Unwrapped: An Acoustic Holiday tour for December with Smith and Myers, Zakk Wylde, The Funeral Portrait, The Warning, and more. Details below Continue reading
Full disclosure before I begin. The year that The Number of the Beast came out, I was a pre-teen milling around a record store with no idea that the record I had been staring at for an uncomfortable amount of time after pulling it out of the bin, and was ultimately compelled to buy that day, would change my life. It would be a gross understatement to say that Iron Maiden has and does mean a lot to me, but I will do my best to be objective here. Continue reading
Chaos and aggression is ugly in the world, but music that is chaotic and aggressive just soothes my ears. Living Weapon has released their debut album, Death in the Family (Closed Casket Activities), and has me feeling feral with each play. Over twenty minutes of an inner-ear attack will have you thinking existentially while also needing to throw spinkicks.