Using a pencil to rewind a cassette tape in 2024 feels like a childish innuendo but back in 1989 when “The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste” from American Industrial Metal act Ministry broke it was a necessary evil. A record filled with lyrics dealing with subjects that the first wave of Thrash bands
A growing concern since their self released demo “Universal Void” appeared in 2003, Wolok have made a regular habit of creating troubling records since, tormenting the eardrums with music best described as too Punk for Black Metal, too Doom for Punk and arguably too Industrial for Doom. You see the trio have for almost 20
Joined by guitarist Billy Morrison of Billy Idol and Royal Machines fame, the second single from the 1st October dropping new Ministry album “Moral Hygiene” is a cover of “Search And Destroy” by The Stooges. A post apocalyptic music video shot in an airplane graveyard and directed by Dean Karr may help sell it to
Hearing of the death of a hero and a legend is never easy and in Joey Jordison we lost a man who was the epitome of a Metal musician and a much loved human being. How much his suffering from acute Transverse myelitis, a neurological disease that causes inflammation of the spinal chord was a
Pretty sure that Al Jourgensen said he was going to stop recording new Ministry material at some point… but come 1st October Nuclear Blast Records will be putting out a new album titled “Moral Hygiene” which features this new single “Good Trouble“. Curiously its one that sounds like a “Psalm 69” demo and you can
The men behind Scattered Storm are not new entrants to the Metal game. Seasoned musicians from the El Paso Texas scene occupy the ranks with Jay Arriaga (Drums, Keyboards, Samples) having played in Random Allusion and Years of Cold; Andre Acosta (Vocals) also belonged to Pissing Razors and Years Of Cold; Kevin Armstrong (Guitars) is currently
Left for dead in the scorching heat of the El Paso Texas sun, Scattered Storm have risen and in the summer of 2021, they are unleashing their debut EP “Oblivion” via Blood Blast Distribution powered by Nuclear Blast. They may have only formed in 2019 but the men behind Scattered Storm are well known in these
If you count the leaked album “Anachronism” that they did with Chiodos guitarist Jason Hale back in 2009 then “AK Concerto No .47, 11th Movement in G Major” is the fourth spin of the chamber for Flint Michigan’s King 810 and it has been one hell of a ride. They received a lot of attention
Between Nine Inch Nails 1989 debut album “Pretty Hate Machine” and 1994’s highly influential “The Downward Spiral” were a pair of EPs entitled “Broken” and “Fixed” which sowed the seeds that would become that sophomore record. The first of those, “Broken” saw something of a style shift from essentially darkwave gothic 80’s inspired synth pop
“Project Regeneration” probably has to stand up as one of the most highly anticipated albums of 2020 with original members of Static-X in Tony Campos (bass, backing vocals), Koichi Fukuda (guitars, keyboards programming) and Ken Jay (drums) creating new music around the vocals from unused demos from the much missed and dearly departed Wayne Static.
