The Largest Rock, Punk & Metal Festival on the West Coast returns—4 days, 4 stages, and 115+ bands feat Blink-182, Deftones, Korn, Bring Me The Horizon, A Perfect Circle, Bad Omens, Rob Zombie, Good Charlotte, Turnstile, and more. Tickets at all price levels are on sale now at the link below! Continue reading
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PODCAST: The Weekly Ritual Rock and Metal News Show Livestream 1-2-24
Catch up on what you missed in the world of Rock and Metal news this week!
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GWAR, Arch Enemy, Oppressor, Wormrot, Between The Buried And Me, Sacred Reich, Necrot, and Frozen Soul Booked for Milwaukee Metal Festival
Milwaukee Metal Festival has just welcomed even more bands to its 2025 bill, with Gwar, Arch Enemy, Oppressor, Wormrot, Between The Buried And Me, Sacred Reich, Necrot, and Frozen Soul joining the lineup. The festival will take place once again at The Rave/Eagles Ballroom from May 16-18, 2025, with the pre-party kicking off on May 15, and more acts still to be added. Catch the updated list of appearing bands below.
GWAR Book 40th Anniversary North American Tour with Static-X
To mark their 40th year, rock and metal legends, GWAR, have booked the Machines Vs. Monsters tour, stomping across North America in 2025. Joining forces with industrial metallers, Static-X, they kick off in Albuquerque, NM, May 24th, rolling on to a final stop in Oklahoma City, OK, June 18th. Support comes from Dope and A Killer’s Confession. Keep reading for more information.
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PODCAST: Glacially Musical 208 – Nik’s Most Expensive Vinyl Unboxed and Revealed
In this episode, get in the time machine (no, it’s not a glass of whiskey) with Nik and Keefy as we discuss Nik’s most expensive and valuable vinyl picks from his collection! We also explain the mythical and majestic “Finger Fudge Pour!”Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE: Squid Pisser Share Their New Video “Vaporize A Neighbor” – Band Currently Touring USA With GWAR
Gunk-drenched avant-grind alien entity Squid Pisser are on the road, opening for GWAR on “The Stoned Age” tour for its duration, culminating on November 20th in Nashville Tennessee. Squid Pisser are touring in support of their new album Dreams of Puke, which was released on June 14th on the great SKiN GRAFT Records (Buñuel, Melt-Banana, Dazzling Killmen) and the band’s own Sweatband Records.
The album has been making a gooey splash (not just for its manic fusion of Punk, Grindcore and Sludge), but for its delightfully grotesque album artwork by painter Gregory Jacobsen (who also fronts Squid-Pisser-label-mates Lovely Little Girls). Controversy around the album art has led to strategic placement of parental advisory stickers on CD copies. Meanwhile the band’s distributor Redeye Worldwide were forced to make a vinyl reprint having received copies with mutilated and damaged jackets.
The casual creation of such hysteria could barely be more Punk Rock and Ghost Cult could not be more delighted to be teaming up with the band to share the video for “Vaporize A Neighbor” — a suitably demented visual companion to the track’s vortex of deranged, metallic riffing — directed by special effects artist Eris Deo.
PODCAST: Glacially Musical 203 – Vinyl Care and Gear Maintenance Chaser Episode
In this episode #203, Nik and co-host Keefy of Ghost Cult Magazine discuss caring for your record collection, turntable maintenance, the joys of collecting, an examination of Discogs, and more! Also, Nik is watching Nicky (Santoro) in “Casino!” Keefy is still salty about “Sopranos!”
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FESTIVAL REVIEW: Riot Fest 2024 Part 2 Live at Douglass Park
The heat raged on, and so did Riot Fest. After night one’s stellar lineup, Riot Fest’s second day continued to showcase the exciting and diverse lineup that the festival had in store. With alternative music icon Beck as Saturday night’s headliner, the day was infused with alternative rock, pop, and everything in between.Continue reading
FESTIVAL REVIEW: Riot Fest 2024 Part 1 Live at Douglas Park
Benjamin Franklin said nothing in this world is certain except for war, death, and taxes. If he were around today, there’s no question he might consider adding Riot Fest to that list of definitive certainties.
Once again, Chicago held its very own Riot Fest – one of music’s most renowned Punk music festivals – in Douglass Park. Despite original plans to move the festival to the suburbs in Bridgeview, a month before the fest was to take place it was announced that Riot Fest would once again be held in Douglass Park as usual.Continue reading
FESTIVAL REVIEW: Slipknot’s Knotfest Iowa Live at Water Works Park
To celebrate twenty-five years at the wheel, Slipknot brought the show back to Iowa for a one-day event at Water Works Park in the lovely midwestern town of Des Moines.