Denver Colorado Metalcore crew The Anchor are perhaps as famed for their music as a full band as they are for frontwoman Linzey Rae’s “Metal Kitchen” series. Returning to Deathcore heavyweights Suicide Silence for the second time in our series, in the red corner we have The Anchor covering the collosal “Unanswered”! And in the
Giving in to popular demand for a prize pair of Slipknot covers in this space while also owing to the fact that “Disdain” by Wage War is heavily inspired by what is for us probably the finest cut from possibly the finest of the Slipknot albums in “Iowa”, it’s time for “The Heretic Anthem” to
Up there with “Smells Like Teen Spirit” by Nivana, “Self Esteem” by The Offspring has one of the most memorable riffs from the grunge era. The Garden Grove, California punks 1994 album “Smash” has shipped in excess of 16 million copies. In the red corner? Pianist Viktoriya Yermolyeva aka vkgoeswild has been releasing some simply amazing
Continuing the Cro-Mags theme (blame Lamb Of God) we’re going to go with one of the 5 or 6 most covered Cro-Mags songs around. The crossover thrash legends practically invented metallic hardcore and their debut “The Age Of Quarrel” is seen by many as one of the cornerstones of the current scene. In the red corner we have Machine Head joined by Biohazard‘s Bobby Hambel at The
To say that Rage Against The Machine are (that’s “are” as opposed to “were” – they will be back!) influential is like saying black is the new black. Their influence is felt far and wide in the Metal community, despite the 18 long years since the bands last studio album, 2000’s “Renegades”. Los Angeles California’s finest export?
Midnight Oil‘s 1987 hit single “Beds Are Burning” was one of the highlights of the Australian Rockers careers and a protest song about giving land back to the native Australian Pintupi, one of the last peoples to come from the desert. In the red corner and taken from their upcoming 7″ release, Comeback Kid have
Returning to the classics for this week’s head to head, we have “Die Die My Darling” by Misfits. The sixth single from Glenn Danzig’s horror punk legends, the song was actually released after the band had split up. Recorded during the sessions for “Walk Among Us” in 1981 but not included on the album, it instead
From Nivana‘s iconic “Nevermind”, the album that brought so many people to Metal via Grunge in 1994, comes “Territorial Pissings”. Everyone has covered it… From ill Nino to Max Cavalera’s Soulfly to Comeback Kid and Dexter Holland’s The Offspring. But we’re going to go with Brighton’s Progressive Metalcore heroes Architects performing a version for the BBC in
DJ Snake and Lil Jon‘s 2013 club anthem “Turn Down For What” has been reinvented several times with Metal covers and dance remixes. The song has also appeared in the films 22 Jump Street, Vin Diesel’s Fast and Furious 7 and Horrible Bosses 2. This week Leo Moracchioli from Frog Leap Studios has taken the
Easily one of the most recognised rock songs and one of the highlights of Rocky III is Survivor‘s “Eye Of The Tiger”. The 1982 double platinum certified single is a a song everyone knows. In the Red corner we have Portuguese Melodic Deathmetallers Apotheus with their brutal 2016 version of the song. Apotheus share an
