Culture Bully — 2/1 Anaheim, CA House of Blues 2/2 San Diego, CA House of Blues 2/3 Hollywood, CA House of Blues 2/4 San Francisco, CA Slim’s 2/6 Seattle, WA El Corazón 2/7 Portland, OR Hawthorne Theatre 2/8 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom 2/9 Spokane, WA... more info

Metalsucks — Before Meshuggah was Meshuggah-ing and mind-fucking the feeble confines of what was rhythmically acceptable to our once feeble metal minds, Dream Theater was pushing the boundaries of mind-fuckery with their crushing masterpiece “The Mirror” on t... more info

Guardian Music — News that heavy metal is to receive serious scholarly attention in Salzburg has raised some eyebrows elsewhere in these pages. So is it heretical that the city of Mozart should be putting Metallica and Slayer centre stage? Not a bit of it. Heavy meta... more info

Metalsucks — So a lot of you have been emailing us lately about this band Hacride, a really solid French progressive metal band very much in the Meshuggah / Textures / Benea Reach school. I think they’re pretty F’n cool, even if not entirely original (see als... more info