Sonic Temple Art and Music Festival Announces Music Set Times, Two Special After Parties, New Bands with Metallica, Linkin Park, Korn, Alice in Chains, Rob Zombie, and More


The Biggest Rock Fest in Columbus History, Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival officially kicks off in less than two weeks, May 8-11 at Historic Crew Stadium in Ohio. Producer Danny Wimmer Presents is pleased to announce the music performance set times, two special after parties, and the launch of the 2025 mobile app so fans can start building their dream itineraries for the four-day event. Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival will feature more than 100 bands on 4 stages, including Metallica in their festival debut, offering a “No Repeat Weekend” with two nights, two unique sets on Friday and Sunday. On Thursday, Korn will headline after sets from Bad Omens and Three Days Grace. On Friday, Metallica will be supported by Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper, and on Saturday Linkin Park will be supported by Incubus and I Prevail. Metallica will close out the weekend on Sunday night with Alice In Chains and Chevelle. In addition to the previously announced acts, Sonic Temple now features Three 6 Mafia, Insane Clown Posse, Shadows Fall, Bleeding Through and Terror.Continue reading


The Debut Unhinged Festival Books Lamb of God, Knocked Loose, In This Moment, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Body Count, Power Trip, and More


Brew Ha Ha Productions (BHHP), one of the nation’s leading independent music festival producers, is excited to announce the launch of its latest festival brand, Unhinged. The inaugural two-day extreme music event at National Western Stockyards in Denver, Colorado on Saturday, July 26 and Sunday, July 27 is produced in collaboration with AEG Rocky Mountains, and promises an unforgettable experience of live music, craft beer, and more. UnhingedFestival will feature performances from some of the most electrifying artists in heavy music today, with hardcore heavyweights Knocked Loose headlining Saturday and metal titans Lamb of God closing out the mayhem on Sunday. The festival will also feature an epic supporting bill that includes In This Moment, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Body Count, Power Trip, The Garden, Health, Converge, Sunami, and many more. Unhinged will feature two full days of music from more than 25 bands on two stages, with no overlapping set times. See below for full daily lineups and look for additional UnhingedFestival dates to be announced soon.Continue reading


Panopticon, Inter Arma, and Lilith Booked for Fire In The Mountains Festival



Montana metal fest, Fire in the Mountains, have announced their final three additions for 2025; Richmond atmospheric extreme metal band, Inter Arma (returning to Montana for the first time in 13 years), New Mexico post-metal doom duo Lilith, and Minnesota black metal outfit Panopticon, playing their album, Autumn Eternal. The event takes place at Red Eagle Campground in East Glacier, Montana in partnership with the Blackfeet Nation, July 25-27, 2025. Find out more below.
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Converge Books U.S. Tour Dates and Festivals


Converge have announced a string of U.S. tour dates in May to bookend their festival appearances at Sonic Temple (Columbus, OH) and Welcome to Rockville (Daytona, FL)— see the band in Detroit, Chicago, Nashville and Birmingham. Tickets go on sale Friday, February 14 at the link below. This summer, Converge will also be appearing at Post. Festival in Indianapolis and Fire in the Mountains in Montana.Continue reading


Converge, Emma Ruth Rundle, Cave In and More Booked for Post.Festival


Indianapolis post-rock, post-metal, post-hardcore, and post-punk event, Post.Festival, has just announced the next wave of bands confirmed for the 2025 edition. Set to return from July 24–26, 2025, at the HiFi & HiFi Annex, the event will feature live sets from Converge, Emma Ruth Rundle, Cave In, Bongripper, You, Infinite, and others. Keep reading below to find out more.
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Chelsea Wolfe, Blood Incantation, Sonja, Sage Bond, and Christian Wallowing Bull Booked for Fire In The Mountains


Fire in the Mountains have just announced their next wave of artists for 2025. Now joining the bill are singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe, Denver death metallers Blood Incantation (performing (Timewave Zero) Philadelphia heavy metal trio Sonja, Navajo Nation singer-songwriter, Sage Bond, and indigenous Wyoming songwriter Christian Wallowing Bull. The festival will take place at it’s new location of Red Eagle Campground in Glacier, Montana in partnership with the Blackfeet Nation, July 25-27, 2025. Find out more below.
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FESTIVAL REVIEW: Metal Injection Festival 2024 Live at The Brooklyn Monarch and The Meadows


 

It’s been a couple of weeks since Metal Injection Fest 2024 melted faces in Brooklyn NY. It was a doozy of a weekend with the likes of Converge, Jinjer, the first live appearance on the East Coast by 3 Inches of Blood in 10 years, God Forbid, Cave In, Gost, Revocation, and a plethora of others.  Continue reading


ALBUM REVIEW: Bunuel – Mansuetude


mansuetude (noun) man·​sue·​tude ˈman(t)-swi-ˌtüd  man-ˈsü-ə-  -ˌtyüd : 

the quality or state of being gentle : meekness, tameness

Have you ever met Eugene S. Robinson (vocalist and frontman for the thunderous Rock force that is Buñuel)? Have you indeed ever listened to Buñuel? Neither experience will likely have “meekness” being the first (or indeed within the first hundred) descriptives that come to mind. Continue reading


Sonic Temple Books Metallica, Linkin Park, Korn, Bad Omens, Rob Zombie, Incubus, Alice In Chains, Three Days Grace, Alice Cooper, I Prevail, Chevelle, and More


The full music lineup has been announced for the fourth year of Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival, including some incredible firsts for the Pinnacle of Rock Festivals in America, held May 8, 9, 10 & 11 at Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio.

More than 100 bands will take the stage during the four-day destination event, marking its biggest year ever. The festival will feature a massive lineup of rock royalty including LINKIN PARK with new co-vocalist Emily Armstrong; they will make their debut at Sonic Temple headlining on Saturday in one of the band’s first shows in seven years. As previously announced, Metallica will also appear at Sonic Temple for the first time ever in 2025 for a “No Repeat Weekend” offering two unique headlining sets over two nights (Friday and Sunday).Continue reading


Metallica, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Pantera, Ozzy Osbourne, and Slipknot are The Greatest Metal Bands of All-Time, According to Forbes


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Of all the websites in the world, financial magazine and website Forbes has released a list of the top 38 metal bands of all-time. The list actually has no real surprises. All the top most popular bands of all-time are present, topped by Metallica, with virtually no other surprises in terms of major underground bands. In picking their list Forbes wrote that it’s “impossible to include all metal sub-genres in this type of list, the sub-genres that are most prominent and influential across metal today were considered with priority.” They added that all 38 bands were chosen due to having “the most significant impact in the metal genre, and a number of these bands are among the genre’s most famous and revered bands.”

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