It has been six long years since 2014s “The Righteous And The Butterfly” and the revolving door of musicians in Cleveland Ohio Metallers Mushroomhead has kept turning with drummer Steve Felton being the only ever present member of the band which started out 1993. Since that last record, 2015 saw the exit of keyboard player
During Silence Festival in 2019, it seemed as though organizers Underside would not be able to perform their set as their drummer was stranded in India due to civil unrest. In steps the atomic clock Gene Hoglan. His band Testament are playing the festival and with little knowledge of the songs and little sleep the
August 2005 saw Swedish Progressive Death Metallers Opeth make their major label debut with Roadrunner Records. They did so with their eighth studio album “Ghost Reveries“, produced by Jens Bogren (Sepultura, God Forbid, At The Gates) and saw just one promotional single in “The Grand Conjuration“. For the music video for the track saw it cut
If you haven’t seen any of guitarist Ola Englund’s “Coffee With Ola” interview series then frankly you’re missing out. He has shared a freshly ground cup of the World’s finest beverage with the great and the good of Metal and in this latest episode gets to chat with none other than Devin Townsend. Strapping Young
Chuck Schuldiner founded Orlando Florida Death Metal band Death in 1983 and was their vocalist, guitarist and occasionally bassist until his tragic death in 2001. The band were a revolving door of musicians including Obituary guitarist James Murphy and Strapping Young Lad, Testament and Fear Factory drummer Gene Hoglan at various points in time. “The Sound
Formed in 1985 as Forbidden Evil and laterly renamed Forbidden, a San Francisco Bay area Thrash Metal act was founded by Jim Pittman and guitarist Robb Flynn, who went on to join Vio-Lence and then Machine Head. They had numerous line up changes over the years they were active and have had both Slayer drummer Paul
It seems that Devin Townsend has finally made peace with the music he created during his time in Strapping Young Lad as he performed a wealth of the material including “Love?” and “Detox” at this years incarnation of the 70000 tons of Metal cruise. Here are the best of a collection of fan filmed footage
New year, new artwork, same s*** everything else. Mind You. You keep coming back for more, so we can’t be doing that much wrong, can we? Just how long can the “Riff Police” feature go on? Well, how long is a piece of string? We’ve had Testament Vs Nuclear Assault and Testament Vs Lamb Of
“Houdini” marked the major label debut for Melvins in 1993 with Atlantic Records taking advantage of the fan base they had built up with their previous Boner Records independent release “Lysol” the year before. Commercially their biggest success and arguably their most accessible release, it is also an album that has a backstory associated with
We live in hope like some poor deluded fools that one day Devin Townsend will resurrect the much loved Strapping Young Lad and perhaps heal any division that their is between himself and Jed Simon, Byron Stroud and Gene Hoglan. Disbanded in May 2007, Townsend had originally announced his decision to retreat from public view
