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
In addition to hometown shows this spring and metal festivals this year, Acid Bath’s reunion has just booked a massive gig. The band will play Losd Angeles this summer at the Hollywood Palladium on Friday, August 22, with support from High On Fire and Windhand. Pre-sales on live now at the links below!Continue reading
Welcome to Black Friday 2024, where the entire human race is trapped in a weird time loop where we attempt crush down our unbridled trauma with retail therapy! Wahooo! We have all your Rock and Metal gift needs and gifts the ones you love, and for yourself (you narcissistic dweebs!) J/k, us too! The Black Friday and Holiday Gift guide For Rockers and Metalheads is here. Check out all the links below to support bands, labels, festivals, record stores, and other small and local businesses this year for Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. And don’t forget to donate to some worthwhile charities on Giving Tuesday!
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes have announced an indefinite hiatus following the completion of their upcoming tour dates. The band recently released their acclaimed new album Dark Rainbow via the AWAL label. The band has had several headline tours and select festival appearances to promote the album. In a recent exclusive interview with Ghost Cult, Frank and Dean discussed the burnout they were feeling after 5 albums released in nine years and that a hiatus/open ended break might be coming. Good luck fellas! We’ll miss you. Continue reading
The long-running but troubled metal festival Metal Days in Slovenia has gone dark for 2024 and will not host another festival ever again under this name. Originally emerging in 2024 as Metal Camp, the festival was renamed Metal Days from 2013- 2022. After holding a truncated festival in 2023, citing catastrophic flooding canceling the last day, and blaming this years’ cancelation on fallout from the ill will of cheated fans, from the global pandemic, economic crisis, and business mistakes. They had promised to refund tickets for several past festivals, but in a lengthy farewell statement only available on their website, they blamed another company for withholding refunds. Metal Days also faced local competition from Tolminator, a smaller yet still successful festival in Tolmin, the original location of Metal Days until 2023. The statement also claimed that they “reinvested the profits from MetalDays into our other festivals: Winter Days of Metal, Headbanger’s Holiday, Bluesland, Overjam Reggae (2017-2019), and Punk Rock Holiday (2013-2016)” – all leading to losses weighing on the parent festival. The statement also states they tried to sell the festival in order to save it for fans to The statement includes details of the festival organizers’ attempts to sell the brand to major festival companies that included Live Nation, Superstruct, and Festival Republic, but failed. Further complicating things, Metal Days has wiped its socials except for YouTube, where they notoriously used to delete negative fan comments, which is a bad look considering the money owed fans, and gaslighting those fans about the whereabouts of that money. Thousands of bands played the festival, including past headliners for the event include: Amon Amarth, Anthrax, As I Lay Dying, At the Gates, Benediction, Beyond Creation, Cattle Decapitation, Clutch, Cradle of Filth, Messhuggah, and many more. At its best, it was a perfect combo of the great traditions of European-style open-air extreme metal music festivals, metalhead culture, camping, lakefront beach fun, and romping in the great outdoors in gorgeous Slovenia. We will keep tracking this story to see if fans ever get refunded, or if the promoters ever try to return. Read the full farewell statement below. Continue reading
Anthrax bassist Frank Bello will sit out the band’s upcoming South American tour dates, as well as two U.S. festival shows in May, due to personal reasons. Filling in for Bello will be founding Anthrax bassist Dan Lilker, was dismissed from the band back in 1984 due to conflicts with former lead singer Neil Turbin. Read messages from Anthrax, Frank, and Dan below.Continue reading
Melodic Death Metal legends At The Gates have canceled all of their 2024 tour dates and festival appearances. They have not revealed a reason why as yet, but all refunds are available from the point of purpose. The band had been on tour for several years performing all of their classic Slaughter of The Soul (Earache Records) album in full, plus other Death Metal hits. Continue reading
We are back for another year of our list of what to get the music lover that already has everything? Find out with our handy 2023 Black Friday and Holiday Gift guide For Rockers and Metalheads. Check out all the links below to support bands, labels, festivals, record stores, and other small and local businesses this year for Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. And don’t forget to donate to some worthwhile charities on Giving Tuesday!
Ghost Cult Keefy caught up with Kat and Malachi of Bay Area Hardcore Punk band Scowl! They have had an amazing year with their new EP Psychic Dance Routine (Flatspot Records), tours and fests, and even a Taco Bell event! Check out our chat with them at Sick New World Festival where they killed it!
Inferno Metal Festival is now revealing the first wave of bands for its 2024 edition, taking place from March 28-31, 2024 across several venues in Oslo (NO). So far, the iconic festival is revealing a mixture of classic bands as well as some vital and exciting new-comers! The current lineup is as follows:Continue reading