According to recent research, we Heavy Metal fans follow some strict “mosh pit ettiquette”. Did we really need someone to get paid to go to shows and observe fans getting in the pit to their favourite tracks? Sounds like someone has more money than sense. You can read the full article here. Videos like this
What’s more Metal than a skull? A burning skull! Blackhand used 10,000 matches to recreate a Ghost Rider style skull. Apparently it’s better to burn out than fade away, so there is nothing else to do but light it up! After watching the clip, why do we feel like putting on “Deathrider” by Anthrax ?!
Metal Subgenres. Like films or books or anything else you like to think of… Breakfast Cereals?! We like to categorise our Metal. Maybe to help people understand what a band sound like if they haven’t heard them before. Some fans are like “it’s all just Metal” and some bands are like “we don’t want to
Reaction videos being all the rage of late, we thought we’d take you back to March and Liverpool’s Truant Take Over Week. Opening that week up, Casper won the prize and picked a favourite of ours… “Only” by Nicki Minaj featuring Drake, Lil’ Wayne and Chris Brown as covered by Hunt The Dinosaur! The original
About a month ago, Jared Dines of Rest, Repose fame challenged Metal fans to scream to break the myth that “metal screaming doesn’t take talent”. The full clip is right here and the myth is well an truly crushed within seconds. Getting the type of person who would that kind of statement to watch it
A number of media outlets are carrying the tragic news of the death of We Came As Romans co-vocalist and electronics mastermind Kyle Pavone at just 28. Reading between the lines of the articles it seems that Suicide is likely though it’s not been officially announced. MoshPit TV have released this loving tribute this morning
Louder.com did a recent interview with Wednesday 13 in which he picked his 10 favourite Wednesday 13 songs and went into his reasons for the picks. The interview comes amid Wednesday 13’s European tour with Combichrist and both bands appearance at this year’s incarnation of Bloodstock Open Air Festival. You can read the interview in
The news that Winds Of Plague and Prong drummer Art Cruz would be filling in for Chris Adler in Lamb Of God for a run of dates due to “unforseen circumstances” is pretty damn cool, because not only is he a fantastic sticksman, with Lamb Of God fans getting a unique opportunity to witness the
Booking bands to play on a festival line-up each year must be a bit of a headache at times. Getting the balance between the “tried and trusted”, the “young blood” and “what’s hot right now” is important, as is ensuring that the Festival doesn’t go stale by carting out the same old bands each year.
Yesterday Hard Core dropped a list of their Top 10 Metalcore bands, which you can watch here But, while it’s a decent list and the likes of Ice Nine Kills, While She Sleeps and Architects are deserving of a mention, there are some glairing admissions. So here are 5 of our own from the current
