-
7.6
New Music Critique: Rival Order
Rival Order generates boot-stomping metal that’s right in its fans’ comfort zone—hard/ soft vocal trade-offs, ballistic kick drums, howling guitar licks, effective breakdowns and cries ... -
7.4
New Music Critique: Pyrah
A French fivesome, Pyrah are fronted by singer Stephanié Montel whose voice excels in its melodic range and can effectively add grit and gravel when ... -
Morbid Angel at The Observatory in Santa Ana, CA
Morbid Angel played to an absolutely packed and enthusiastic crowd at The Observatory in Santa Ana on Nov. 27. It was a cold and rainy ... -
Great American Ghost Sign With Entertainment One
Boston's GREAT AMERICAN GHOST has signed a worldwide record deal with Entertainment One ("eOne") with plans to release a new LP titled Power Through Terror ... -
7.6
New Music Critique: Sinaro
Gus Sinaro fronts a metal foursome that produces credible metal power on a solid, if formulaic, batch of songs. “Break the Paradigm” and “Bullet Through ... -
Chamber Signs to Pure Noise Records
Chamber signed to Pure Noise Records and released their new 12" EP, Ripping / Pulling / Tearing. Of Ripping / Pulling / Tearing, vocalist Jacob ... -
8
New Music Critique: Finding September
This Texas band is fronted by Emily Bayardo, whose vocal tone is appropriately butch, brawny and rebellious. That voice is expertly situated in the mix ... -
Live Review: Eric McFadden at Bogie's in Westlake Village, CA
Material: Far more than an extraordinary guitarist, Eric McFadden is, to put it bluntly, an experience. From mellow blues licks, Muscle Shoals rockabilly and salt-of-the-earth ... -
7.4
New Music Critique: Siva
Metal foursome Siva are altogether solid in every department, and they put forth a slow, dark, brooding brand of metal that might interest labels such as Metal Blade and ... -
7.6
New Music Critique: Two Hundred Feet
Classic melodic-metalheads will appreciate P.J. Zitarosa and his mates, who bring virtuosity to every measure. “Speed of Evil” exemplifies the band, with not only Zitarosa’s guitar ... -
Signing Story: He Is Legend
Out of Eastern North Carolina, He Is Legend has built a significant following, and recently signed to Spinefarm Records for their most recent release, few. ... -
7.8
New Music Critique: Tera
Tera’s dark, despairing vision of a dire, bankrupt world is delivered with top-notch metal-core musicianship that brings relentless intensity to every moment. But that ultimately ... -
7.4
New Music Critique: The Slit
You don’t often hear such a scalding roar from a singer the way you do from the Slit’s Dustin Liggit. We’re talking visceral, gut-punching aggression that ... -
8
New Music Critique: Fused By Defiance
Anyone with an ear for ‘90s-era hard rock a la Rage, Bizket, Korn will dig the bristling, beefy riffs and manic mic outbursts of Fused ... -
Korn at House of Blues in Anaheim, CA
Before heading out to Europe and South America on their world tour, Korn blasted through the second-night of a sold-out doubleheader at the grand opening ... -
7
New Music Critique: Teach Her Treason
For booking purposes, these recordings suggest that Toronto’s Teach Her Treason are metal-ish rockers (Pantera, Metallica), who can deliver with lockstep precision. Film/TV prospects, however, ... -
Rock on the Range Leads "World's Loudest Month"
Over the last several years, May has become known as the “World's Loudest Month” in the rock world. While traveling festivals, like Ozzfest and Mayhem, ... -
Live Reviews: Socionic at the Viper Room in West Hollywood, CA
Material: Socionic offers up a progressive sound infusing elements of rock, metal and industrial, not only throughout the performance, but often within the same song. ... -
Album Review: Intronaut - "The Direction of Last Things" (9/10)
Intronaut is one of the least pretentious bands in progressive metal—but their fifth album is far from innocuous. Rather, it’s undeniably one of the genre’s standout releases of the ... -
MSO Promotes Feterl to Account Executive
Mitch Schneider Organization (MSO) has promoted Aaron Feterl to Account Executive. Feterl joined MSO in 2008, beginning as an assistant to Account Executive Angela Villanueva ...
