The name Bård G. "Faust" Eithun draws a lot of different reactions. He is famous as a former drummer of Emperor. He is infamous because of his role ... Read More

The full lineup for the 8th Annual New England Metal and Hardcore Festival has been confirmed. The three-day festival at The Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts will feature headliners Lacuna Coil, Black ... Read More

For metal fans it's always exciting when an album by a legendary group like Cannibal Corpse comes out. Will they be able to live up to their past releases? ... Read More

Machinemade God is a German metalcore band. Their debut album is solid and shows a fair amount of potential. But there are so many metalcore bands out there ... Read More

Amorphis has been around for over 15 years, and in that time the Finnish band has released some pretty good albums. Bands have lineup changes all the time, but ... Read More

Here's what's happening on some other heavy metal sites. If you see something out there you think I should hype, shoot me an email! Rammstein has a new album coming ... Read More

Yakuza is a truly unique heavy metal band. First of all they have a band member that plays saxophone and clarinet. That would be normal in a jazz ... Read More

The Chicago band Twelfth Gate is combination of power/prog metal and thrash. When it comes to vocals, Scott Huffman is undoubtedly a power metal singer. He has a ... Read More

This is another album with a ton of different influences. You could describe them as progressive melodic death thrash. They can be very precise and technical in places, ... Read More

If power metal is your thing, you definitely should check out this album. It has everything a good power metal album needs, like soaring vocals and lots of guitar ... Read More

This is a pretty album with mellow mandolins and lyrics about puppies and bunnies. If you believe that, there's a bridge I have for sale that you might be ... Read More

This album will definitely make my Top 5 list this month. It's been five years since the last Witchery album, and it's been two years between the recording ... Read More

The Finnish group Hevein is pretty unique, having a cellist and violinist as band members. And although they have some gothic influences, they also incorporate a bunch of other ... Read More

The latest album from the Swedish band earned 4 out 5 stars. It's traditional metal with goth and doom influences. Katatonia has a lot of range and versatility ... Read More

If you're a fan of that early to mid '80s sleazy Sunset Strip style metal like Motley Crue and Guns 'N Roses, Kill Cheerleader will be right up your ... Read More

Every week or so I'll direct you to some of the articles, interviews, rants, reviews or other metal information that grabbed my attention from sites other than this one. ... Read More

On their latest album, the Italian black metal band Aborym decided to replace their drum machine with a live drummer. They couldn't have done much better than former Emperor ... Read More

Sepultura's latest album is their best since Derrick Green became their vocalist, and one of their best ever. It's a concept album based on an 800 year old work ... Read More

It was long overdue, but heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath were 2006 inductees into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. After being finalists for 8 years, the legendary ... Read More

God Forbid are currently touring Europe with Trivium in support of their very successful 2005 album IV: Constitution Of Treason. Then they're headed back to the states. Check out ... Read More

Our intrepid concert correspondent Eric Hanson attended an air guitar event recently and was surprised by how much fun it was. Everyone has done it in their bedroom, but ... Read More

The death/doom metal band Daylight Dies is one of those groups that not a lot of people are familiar with, but if they keep releasing albums as good as their ... Read More

The lineup for this summer's annual Ozzfest has been announced. Ozzy Osbourne will only be headlining 10 shows this year. Others on the main stage include System ... Read More

Legendary Judas Priest guitarist Glenn Tipton has just released two albums. They were both recorded about ten years ago. One is him, drummer Cozy Powell (Black Sabbath) and ... Read More

If you're a metal vocalist or wanna be metal vocalist you need to check out this DVD. Renowned vocal coach Melissa Cross has put her teaching methods on DVD ... Read More

On their second album, Daylight Dies has made a huge advancement forward. Their music is melodic death metal mixed with doom metal. There are long instrumental sections broken ... Read More

The Finnish death metal band Torture Killer has raised their profile with the addition of Six Feet Under's Chris Barnes on vocals. I interviewed guitarist Jari Laine and he ... Read More

This is how live DVDs should be done. The audio and video quality are great, and of course David Coverdale is one of the legendary voices in music. ... Read More

This is almost like a reverse Rock Star story. Chris Barnes from Six Feet Under is now the lead singer of a band that started out doing Six Feet ... Read More

2006 is off to a strong start. Once again this month it was tough to decide the 5 best CDs that were released in February. There were ... Read More

I named Ghost Reveries as the best album of 2005, but unfortunately for me Opeth's latest tour didn't come to Charlotte. Eric Hanson lives in New York and was ... Read More