Vocalist Steve Grimmett remains in a South American hospital after being refused flight home when the airline disallowed him to board on Saturday evening. Grimmett has been battling a life-threatening condition for a week after being rushed to a local hospital in Ecuador; the singer was amidst a tour in support of GRIM REAPERs latest album, Walking In The Shadows.
Anti-Flag is leading the charge of political punk rock in 2017, which is when this country needs it the most! The Pittsburgh punk band will be increasingly visible and vocal in 2017. With the follow up to 2015’s American Spring (Spinefarm) on the horizon later this year, the band continues to fight for justice and equality and fearlessly make their voices heard, especially in this changing (and increasingly terrifying) government landscape. Put simply, A-F can’t and won’t back down. Anti-Flag’s Justin Sane spoke to Billboard, sharing the band’s views on our new president and the band was featured in an in-depth and eye-opening profile over at CLRVYNT. Watch the live video for “Death...
Necrophagist‘s seminal, tech-death masterpiece Epitaph is once again available on vinyl for the first time since it’s release in 2004! Uniting head-spinning musicianship, elaborate arrangements and an acute sense of dynamics within composition, Epitaph reset the bar for complexity and technique in modern-day death metal!
IRON MAIDEN’s hugely successful The Book Of Souls World Tour will return to North America for an extensive series of arena and amphitheater shows in summer 2017. The mammoth tour opened in Florida last February playing fourteen sold-out shows in the U.S.A and Canada along with a further 58 concerts in 34 other countries around the globe.
This HBO Documentary Film follows the American rock band Eagles of Death Metal as they recount their experiences before, during and after the tragic terrorist attack at their concert in Paris on November 13, 2015 – a heinous act of violence that claimed 89. The film spotlights the deep bond of friendship between band co-founders Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme as well as the intensely personal connection that the Eagles of Death Metal has always had with their devoted fans. That relationship, coupled with a profound sense of responsibility to help the Bataclan survivors cope with their physical and emotional wounds, inspired the band to return to Paris: first to perform with U2 at a rescheduled concert three weeks after...
POWER TRIP strike again with their second single “Executioner’s Tax (Swing of the Axe)” which lyricist Riley Gale explains was written in relation to “Christian European countries where it was common for the person sentenced to death to have a chance to repent. If they did, they were given a bag of coins, silver or alike. For if they were particularly vile or the executioner felt lazy, it may take more than one swing of that axe to get that person’s head off and that kind of death is certainly one you’d want to be as painless as possible.” “Hence, the Executioner’s Tax to ensure a strong, lights out kinda death. It’s more subtly an allegory about that being...
Extreme metal giants ARCH ENEMY have now launched the first trailer for their upcoming live DVD/Bluray “As The Stages Burn!” which will be released on March 31st, 2017. Featuring footage of their headline performance at WACKEN OPEN AIR 2016, marking the pinnacle of a highly successful album campaign in support of “War Eternal”, “As The Stages Burn!” highlights an impressive live production fans have never seen before! “As The Stages Burn!” will be available as Limited Edition CD+DVD Digipak, Gatefold 2LP+DVD and as digital album. Europe will also be offering fans a Ltd. Deluxe CD+DVD+Blu-ray Box Set. The full Wacken 2016 show was recorded with 13 cameras, produced and directed by Patric Ullaeus. The...
