It’s been a wild ride for Horrendous, the death metal band originating between Philadelphia and South Carolina, but one that has been an exciting journey for fans of the genre to follow. Formed in 2009 by punk loving brothers Matt and Jamie Knox along with their more metal-leaning friend Damian Herring, the group started with…
Metal fandom is for life. When something stirs in your brain the first time you hear Judas Priest or Black Sabbath or Cannibal Corpse, that connection is made for the long hall. To be a metal fan is to be devoted to the heaviest music on Earth and to not give a flying shit what…
A gut wound lingers. In the movies, a gunshot to the middle tends to be a drawn out affair, with the unfortunate recipient left to suffer in agony for hours or days. It’s a visceral process of suffering, expiring from a gut wound, and one that’s a more than apt title for a death metal…
The last few years have seen a variety of bands long thought dead rise from the grave to kick asses and melt faces once again. Time away from their bands, renewed interest thanks to readily available older material on the internet, and astronomical leaps forward in technology have all brought fans clamoring for the return…
It’s true to the point of being cliche but it really is staggering how many influential bands and musicians have come from New Orleans. Whether you’re a fan of jazz, metal, hard rock, blues, rap, country, or pretty much any and every genre and subgenre in between, you can most definitely find an act from…
Some bands are easy to pin down. Cannibal Corpse is death metal, Mayhem is black metal, Megadeth is thrash, and so on and so forth. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a band comfortably falling within one subgenre or another. On the other hand, there’s something exciting about a band that takes what they love from…
There is no shortage of guitar heroes within the worlds of hard rock and heavy metal. Plenty of different axemen have come and gone and left their marks on not only the music and the fans, but also on the musicians within the scene as well. Pretty much any guitarist you talk to will instantly…
There doesn’t seem to be a more readymade target or subject of discussion for metal musicians than religion. By their very nature, our religious institutions seek to control individuals and get them to conform to their way of thinking and their beliefs. If you know anything north of nothing about metalheads, conformity really isn’t our…
If you love death metal, you probably love Terry Butler, whether you know it or not. You can’t be a fan of the genre without liking Massacre, Death, Six Feet Under, Obituary, or Inhuman Condition. One, or all, of those bands has definitely been in your rotation at some point if you dig the genre…
Regardless of how old you are, the grim reaper is coming for you. It might not be today, it might not be next week (or hell, it might!) but sometime, you will have to meet the man in black during your fateful, final encounter. That’s the band news. The good news, for metal fans at…