They say that resistance is futile and it has to be said that, naming no names, there is at least one person we know who gets a kick out of blasting Metalized covers of 80’s Pop Songs and p***ing off the neighborhood. And why not? At least they can all sing-a-long to them, especially during
If you named an artist and then asked a Metal Head to name a song by that band, nine times out of ten they’d name the same big song. Cannibal Corpse? “Hammer Smashed Face“. Limp Bizkit? “Break Stuff“. Nirvana? “Smells Like Teen Spirit“. You get the picture. So how about Deftones? We’d put our money
Fixed Fight guitarist Marius Krogsgaard Thomsen is going to hate us for doing this but this weeks head to head is all about the bastardised Pop Song turned into a Frankenstein Metal monster for our listening pleasure by bands who should probably know better. But given the success of the Fearless Records Punk Goes Pop
There are classic albums and there are career defining ones and for Canadian Hardcore Punks Cancer Bats, their 2008 sophomore album “Hail Destroyer” fits neatly into both categories. Critically acclaimed with a Sludge Metal weight to riffs from now former guitarist Scott Middleton and film references to Pulp Fiction among others it far surpassed the success
From 1979 to the present day Scottish Punk Rock legends The Exploited went from zero to hero as they evolved from a Street Punk band to a Crossover Thrash act between 1981’s “Punk Is Not Dead” and 1987’s “Death Before Dishonour” and widely considered one of the bands instrumental in the birth of Hardcore. 1996 saw
23 years after 1999’s self titled album from Des Moines Iowa Slipknot smashed down the walls, it still holds up to scrutiny and sounds just as good as it did now as it did then. The 18 legged machine keeps on rolling with the band holding together despite the tragic passing of former drummer Joey
It’s that most controversial time of the week again! We put head to head two bands who have covered a notable song in a bare knuckle boxing match to the death to see who will be crowded champion of Vs. Tuesday. So while we could harp on about how Bring Me The Horizon are no
There has been many a debate by the fireside over many, many beers about the legacy of American Thrash Metal titans Slayer and if or when they will be back. There is no doubting that they are one of the most influential bands in not only Thrash but Death Metal with their downtuned guitars, infectious rhythms
It doesn’t seem like anything approaching the 30 years it has been since “Chaos A.D.” from Sepultura landed in 1993 via Roadrunner Records but as the cliché goes, time waits for no man. A stylistic departure from their earlier Death Thrash oriented sound to incorporate more Groove, not only is it a critically acclaimed record
The final Vs Tuesday of 2021 sees us head all the way back to 1993 and “Sound of White Noise” by Anthrax, a record which saw them get serious while incorporating more Grunge influence into their sound with the help of producer Dave Jerden (Alice In Chains, Jane’s Addiction, Armored Saint). The first album of
