The Story of Native American Metal Band Winterhawk. “The way we would get in the door at these boarding schools—and it would take some time for the faculty to grasp the idea—was [that] we used the tool of music, mainly heavy metal, because at the time,…
Tom Morello: ‘We came within a baby’s breath of a fascist coup in the US’
Lockdown and ‘looking after the grandmas’ may have kept the Rage Against the Machine guitarist away from recent protests – but he refuses to be silencedTom Morello has made more than 20 albums, as a founding member of Rage Against the Machine – the pol…
‘Racism is rampant’: Alien Weaponry, the metal band standing up for Māori culture
The New Zealand trio have gone global thanks to their forthright Māori-language songs, which confront colonial history and ongoing inequalityNew Zealand was a war zone in the mid-1800s. On one side were the British and the colonial government, craving …
Angry Songs For Sad People
If you like heavy metal music you should consider checking out , an electro-metal screamo-pop post-hardcore “nu metal” duo* with hints of riotgrrl and hip-hop and dub-step, fresh off winning Best UK Breakthrough Band at the 2021 Heavy Metal Music Award…
Employed to Serve: Conquering review – thrilling, gut-churning metal
(Spinefarm)The brilliant Woking band get heavier than ever, causing motion sickness with their animalistic, groove-laden songsOn this blistering record, which layers hardcore-infused thrash with a deadweight swing, Woking’s Employed to Serve deliver mu…
Little Simz, Iron Maiden and more: September’s best album reviews
Discover all our four- and five-star album reviews from the last month, from pop to folk, classical and more Continue reading…
Fractory raises $9M to rethink the manufacturing supply chain for metalworks
The manufacturing industry took a hard hit from the Covid-19 pandemic, but there are signs of how it is slowly starting to come back into shape — helped in part by new efforts to make factories more responsive to the fluctuations in demand that come with the ups and downs of grappling with the shifting […]
Turnstile: can hardcore punk’s biggest band conquer the mainstream?
With their major-label deal and collaborations with Dev Hynes, the Baltimore five-piece are pushing at rock music’s boundariesAll music scenes have a splintering. In 1989, grunge fans were excited about Nirvana and Tad. By 1991 it was a different story…
“What are the lyrical themes on Vadak?”
“The loose concept is we, like all living creatures, are chased by death in a woodland of time. We are wildlings and not hunters.”
Interview with Tamás Kátai about Vadak (2021) (full album on youtube), the latest album of Thy Catafalque, perhaps the …
Joey Jordison, Slipknot’s founding drummer, dies at age 46
Family announce that metal musician, who had transverse myelitis, a nerve disease, died ‘peacefully in his sleep’Jordison corralled chaos with his explosive talent – tributeJoey Jordison, the drummer whose dynamic playing helped to power the metal band…