Tag: Roadrunner Records

Listmania: Metal Noise Spotify Wrapped 2020!

That’s right, it’s that time of year folks! Spotify Wrapped has given us the top 20 tunes we listened to in 2020, so rather than share the full list, we’re going to do what we did in 2019 and hit you with 5 of those records which we listened to the most in 2020. Just

Throwback: “Stalingrad” by Red Tape!

It seems harder to believe now than it did when it happened but for a two year stretch between 2007 and 2009 Red Tape frontman Jeff Jaworski stood in for Grady Avenell and recorded “The Hierophant“, the fourth studio album from Sacramento California’s finest Noise Metal outfit Will Haven. The styles of the two bands

Bootleg: Spineshank in Fort Lauderdale!

Including an interview with guitarist Mike Sarkisyan at the end, here’s a full set from Industrial Metallers Spineshank. It took place at The Chilli Pepper in Fort Lauderdale Florida on 18th March 1999, a 2nd Generation VHS tape transfer with a set of tracks from their “Strictly Diesel” era, once again saved by Liberated Tape

Riff Police! Pull Over! #132: Legend Vs Slipknot!

“This is another me-and-Paul [Gray, bassist] creation. It was similar to ‘Duality’, in that I had mixed feelings about whether it was a good song… Then we got together and started working on it as a team and it just came together. A lot of bands, who I won’t name, have ripped this song off.

Bootleg: Higher Power In The K! Pit!

If there has been one band to crack the US in recent years, it’s got to be Leeds Hardcore Punks Higher Power. Signing for Roadrunner Records for “27 Miles Underwater” has to be a moment in anyone’s book. Returning to London and the dive bar that is Blondies, they’ve smashed a set for Kerrang Magazine

Playthrough: “Pictures In The Gold Room” from Chimaira!

So much more than a playthrough, the man, the myth, the legend that is Chimaira guitarist Rob Arnold has given us a full on guitar lesson for “Pictures In The Gold Room” from the bands sophomore major label record “The Impossibility of Reason“. Incase the imagery doesn’t give it away, the song lyrically takes its

Bootleg: Machine Head in Moosic Pennsylvania!

“It’s been around for a thousand years, And it’ll be here for plenty more, It is the face hidden in disgrace, That has become now an open sore, It is a false messiah, It is the face of pain, The bringer of the bittersweet, The heretic insane, Take my scars…”

Throwback: “The Price Of Reality” by Amen!

Known for a chaotic live show that had the potential for injury to be sustained at any point with frontman Casey Chaos leaping from pretty much any elevated object within reach, Amen are a band who have a reputation that far outweighs their commercial success. Four studio albums and a couple of rarities collections, multiple

Bootleg: “To The Grave” from Motionless In White!

Cut from the 10th Anniversary pay per view live stream “Creatures X” for their major label debut “Creatures” which took place on 28th October, Motionless In White have given us the “To The Grave“. The album is still available on limited edition cassette for all you grave robbers and bone collectors out there…