The 2018 Heartland Throwdown has been announced featuring Hatebreed, Crowbar, The Acacia Strain, Terror, Twitching Tongues and more. The one-day festival takes place on Thursday, March 22 at the Sokol Auditorium and Underground in Omaha, NE.Continue reading
Hatebreed just announced the second leg of their “20 Years Of Desire & 15 Years Of Perseverance” tour. Continue reading
Ahh, Metalcore. That much maligned subgenre of metal that some naysayers would have you believe was dead and gone. But here come Wage War from Florida to press the reset button with their sophomore album Deadweight (Fearless) and show you Metalcore is far from over.Continue reading
With a name like Abhorrent Decimation, you know what kind of music you’re getting into. And with that caveat in mind, The Pardoner (Prosthetic) doesn’t disappoint in the extreme department. You get 10 slices of heavy and technically leaning Death Metal that sounds equal parts Thy Art is Murder and The Black Dahlia Murder with a dash of The Acacia Strain. All things considered, The Pardoner satisfies the Death Metal urges, particularly for fans who came about in the wake of the Deathcore boom, but it’s not as good as it could be.Continue reading
The Vans Warped Tour. Twenty-Three years of a traveling road show that showcases a plethora of bands. Some people thumb their nose up as it being full of emo wannabes or full of bands no one has heard before. But those people ignore the fact that this is an institution. Twenty-three successive years of promoting hundreds of bands on a full summer tour. It’s pretty much the longest most successful American festival; it rivals the festivals in Europe. Continue reading
While this year continues to be another great year for new heavy music, the Massachusetts scene has once again stood tall with The Acacia Strain dropping their latest, Gravebloom (Rise). The Chicopee, MA group continues to produce stellar albums and still aiming to beat out their previous successes. TAC keeps true to the sound that they are best known for, while also experimenting just a bit more than previously. There may not be a twenty-minute long epic that takes up a second disk, but the eleven tracks that span nearly fifty minutes is just right.Continue reading
The Acacia Strain will be unleashing their new album, Gravebloom, on June 30th via Rise Records. As we’ve already heard in the ‘Bitter Pill’ single, this band has somehow gotten heavier, and we have another punishing new track for your ear holes today. Continue reading
The Acacia Strain has just announced that they will be unleashing their new album, Gravebloom, on June 30th via Rise Records, and we have a new song streaming for your ear holes today. Continue reading
The 2017 Vans Warped Tour was announced at their annual event at Full Sail University in Florida. CKY, Hatebreed, Hawthorne Heights, I Prevail, Beartooth, Sick Of It All, Candiria, Anti Flag, GWAR, Memphis May Fire and more will perform. Tickets are on sale now for all dates with the full confirmed line-up and other info below.
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