Everyone likes a challenge. Devin Townsend more than most. Each new record is about setting goals and attempting to achieve them. Whether it’s an introspective deep dive or an explosion of absurdist non-conformity, the progressive polymath’s albums always tend to reflect his state of mind, even if it happens to be completely barking at that particular time.Continue reading
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Slipknot Books Knotfest Australia 2025 ft. A Day To Remember, Babymetal, Slaughter To Prevail, Polaris Within Temptation, Enter Shikari, Hatebreed, In Hearts Wake, HEALTH, and More
Slipknot has booked the 2025 edition of Knotfest Australia for next March and now announced the full lineup! Taking place in Melbourne, Brisbane, and Sydney featuring
Slipknot, as well as A Day To Remember, Babymetal, Slaughter To Prevail, Polaris
Within Temptation, Enter Shikari, Hatebreed, In Hearts Wake, HEALTH, Miss May I, Vended, and Sunami! See the links for pre-sales and general on sales below. Slipknot is currently on their “Here Comes the Pain” World tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of their self-titled debut album (Roadrunner Records), and just headlined their Knotfest Iowa festival.
CLASSIC ALBUMS REVISITED: Korn’s Influential Debut Album Turns 30
Around the 48-second mark of album opener “Blind” Jonathan Davis screams “Are you ready?” Looking back at 30 years of history and an ever-shifting heavy music landscape, holy shit, Davis could not have realized how impactful of a statement that would become. 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.
FESTIVAL REVIEW: RPM Festival 2024 Part 1 Live at Millers Falls Rod and Gun Club
Ahhh, Labor Day weekend in New England. Cookouts, final vacation trips, getting ready to close up the pool until Memorial Day weekend, the leaves start changing color, and the family reunion you didn’t know you needed until you got here takes place. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, RPM Fest 2024 took over Millers Falls Rod and Gun Club in Montague, MA this past Labor Day weekend. Three days of music, food, camping, yard games, karaoke, and more extracurricular activities than you can shake a battle vest at. I’m here to tell y’all about it, so let’s stop the yapping and get into it… shall we?
Milwaukee Metal Fest 2025 Books Down, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Exodus, 3 Inches of Blood, Wolves in the Throne Room, Trouble, Fugitive, and More
8.24.24 KNockdown Center, Brooklyn, NY Due to the massive success of the second edition of Milwaukee Metal Festival, the iconic midwestern event is returning in 2025! 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. Early bird tickets are now available at the link below! The festival is now pleased to welcome Down (w/ Phil Anselmo, Kirk Windstein, Pepper Keenan, Jimmy Bower + Pat Bruders), The Dillinger Escape Plan (performing Calculating Infinity in its entirety), Exodus, 3 Inches of Blood and more to the lineup, with many more TBA! The first wave of bands is now as follows:
FESTIVAL NEWS: Slipknot, Till Lindemann (Rammstein), Knocked Loose, Hatebreed, Poison The Well, Gwar, Vended, Dying Wish, and More Set to Perform at Knotfest Iowa Today
Knotfest Iowa is upon us. Today the globally renowned event has revealed its 2024 lineup including the hometown return of Slipknot, the festival’s headliner and founders. With a unique set drawing heavily from their 1999 debut, Slipknot will celebrate 25 years of the self-titled album along with their fans, in the band’s birthplace of Iowa. The band just played their first two shows with their new lineup in California outside of a small bar and at Sick New World Festival!
In addition to Slipknot, the fest features Till Lindemann from Rammstein, Kentucky’s vibrant hardcore/metal forerunners Knocked Loose, metalcore influencers Hatebreed and Poison The Well, heavy metal icons GWAR, Des Moines natives Vended, in addition to Dying Wish, Zulu, Twin Temple, Holy Wars, Swollen Teeth and Spine & Dose. Taking place at Waterworks Park, in Des Moines on September 21st. Continue reading
FESTIVAL REVIEW: Bloodstock Open Air Part 1 – Live at Catton Hall
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It”s August and raining, but nobody cares because we’re home again. Yes, for the next few days (and for some early birds, the previous 24hrs), Catton Hall in Derbyshire has become the focal point of the true metal community as fans converge on Bloodstock Open Air for their annual dose of hard drinking and unholy hangovers.Continue reading
CLASSIC ALBUMS REVISITED: Lamb of God – Ashes of the Wake 20th Anniversary
On August 31 Lamb of God’s Ashes of the Wake (Epic Records) officially turns twenty. I was still in highschool and vividly remember stopping by Bullmoose Records in Salem, New Hampshire to pick up my copy. But that’s not to say that those were simpler times.Continue reading
ALBUM REVIEW: Trail of Lies – Only The Strong
Syracuse, New York will be familiar to fans of Straight-Edge Hardcore thanks to Earth Crisis and Trail of Lies can thus be seen as a continuation of this lineage.