Megadeth

25 Classic Metal/Hardcore Photos from Louder Than Hell

If you've got a lot of time on your hands and a heart full of darkness, you'd be wise to check out Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal, out Tuesday on Harper Collins/It Books. The key word in that title is "Definitive." This is quite a weighty tome, over 600 pages across every twi ... More >>

The Oral History of NYC's Metal/Hardcore Crossover

Excerpted from the book Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal, published by It Books and available May 14 New York is a music mecca—the Brill Building, Broadway, street performers, subway buskers, the Metropolitan opera—but it's not known for its abundance of successful ... More >>

What Makes NYC Metal?

New York City is intrinsically metal. But, before we get into why: what makes anything "metal"? What does calling something "metal" mean? Among those uninitiated into the metal "scene" (a word used mostly by journalists and not so much by the occupants of said "scene"), metal conjures images of ext ... More >>

Twitter Has Ruined the Art of the Musician Feud

Remember when musician fights used to be interesting--or at least memorable for more than two minutes? It's hard to imagine as we expend Twitter scrolling energy on Azealia Banks v. Angel Haze, Gaga vs. the Osbournes, Deadmau5 vs. Madonna, and the rest of the noise. Yet unbelievably, there was a tim ... More >>

Live: Witch Mountain Bring A Little Too Much Polish To Saint Vitus

Witch Mountain w/Lord Dying, Pilgrim, Bezoar Saint Vitus Friday, June 8 Better than: Kittie? Maybe? In theory, Witch Mountain—whose heavy, bluesy fuzz is fronted by the expressive, theatrical Uta Plotkin—should work. But on Friday night at Saint Vitus, Plotkin and her band could only ... More >>

Jones Beach Theater And PNC Bank Arts Center Schedules Announced: Drake, Wiz Khalifa, Kelly Clarkson, And More

Ah, the summer, the time of year when one can enjoy a concert in the glorious out of doors. This morning Live Nation announced the full lineups for its two local amphitheaters—the PNC Bank Arts Center in bucolic Holmdel, N.J. and the Jones Beach Theater, out on the South Shore of Nassau County ... More >>

A Brief History of Dave Mustaine Saying Conservative Things

Courtesy of MSO PRPolitical Pundit Dave Mustaine​ Last night press representatives of Dave Mustaine sent out a statement clarifying the Megadeth frontman's recent supposed-by-not-really endorsement of Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum.

Who Will Win At The Grammys?

Tonight's the running of the 54th annual Grammys, and for the past week Sound of the City has been running the odds on various categories. Below, a list of all the predictions made by our writers this week. (Spoiler: Adele (above) pops up a lot!) Feel free to clip and save, and fill in the (many) ga ... More >>

Oddsmaking: Will The Grammys Declare Sum 41 To Be More Metal Than Megadeth And Mastodon?

The 54th Grammy Awards mark the combination of the Best Hard Rock Performance and Best Metal Performance awards into the single category Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance, which is why Mastodon and Sum 41 are up for the same award. Historically, the metal category has been one of the most confounding ... More >>

Anthrax

Live: Megadeth Keep It Muted At The Theater At Madison Square Garden

Gigantour: Megadeth, Motörhead, Lacuna Coil, Volbeat The Theater At Madison Square Garden Saturday, January 28 Better than: The World Needs a Hero in its entirety tour. Dave Mustaine has spent the better part of this young decade on a mission to restore his image. He's put out a bestselling auto ... More >>

Live: Caveman Heat Up The Bowery Ballroom

Caveman Bowery Ballroom Friday, January 20 Better than: That Geico commercial sitcom spin-off. Caveman couldn't have felt more at home than they did at the cavernous echo chamber of the Bowery Ballroom, an ideal setting for the soft distortion and hazy reverb of what might be best described as tro ... More >>

Megadeath+Motörhead+Volbeat

The 10 Best Live Shows of 2011

The best stuff we saw on stage this year, from thrash to Kpop

Trans-Siberian Orchestra

The Roots' Walk-On Music For Michele Bachmann Was Ha-Ha Funny, But...

Monday night the Republican Presidential candidate and frequent source/target of Photoshop japery Michele Bachmann appeared on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon in an effort to promote both her autobiography and her appearance at last night's Presidential debate. As a rebuke to the Minnesota congresswoma ... More >>

Live: The Big 4 Go To Bat For Metal At Yankee Stadium

River Avenue, 3:45 p.m. Most of the Anthrax shirt-wearers were inside by this point. ​ The Big 4: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax Yankee Stadium Wednesday, September 14 Better than: "Nationals beat the Mets, 2-0. WP: Brad Peacock (1-0), LP: Mike Pelfrey (7-12)" Truth be told, the crowd ... More >>

Anthrax and Joey Belladonna Keep It In the Family

How the band and its once and current singer were caught in an emotional mosh

10 Specials We Hope Bronx Restaurants Will Consider In Honor Of The Big Four's Impending Yankee Stadium Show

Mmm. wingy. ​A week from tonight, four titans of heavy metal—Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, and Slayer—will come together at Yankee Stadium for The Big 4's East Coast concert. It's going to be great! The Bronx is pretty excited about the impending metal invasion, too, as evidenced b ... More >>

Q&A: Violent J Talks Jack White, "Lick Me in the Arse," And Why Doesn't Think Insane Clown Posse Is Really Getting a Better Public Reception These Days

"We went to [Jack White's] mansion--his fresh, huge, gated mansion--I'm talking for real, man, a real-deal mansion, you know? An old colonial huge house. The whole thing, all fresh, was white and red. White house with a big, red chimney!" Going to find as many excuses to use this picture as possibl ... More >>

'The Big 4'

Diamond Head

American Idol: James Durbin's Not-Very-Good Voice Finally Leaves Us

Michael Becker/FOX​ Tonight, American Idol lost James Durbin. I was sorry to see him go, but only because his departure meant that we'll never get to see the live-TV Tourettic freakout that I was really excited about back when he first came into our lives. As it turns out, most people with Tou ... More >>

Rock-Critic Pop Quiz: How Well Do You Know Anthrax's Back Catalog?

​Get ready to be caught in a proverbial mosh, New York, because The Big 4 of thrash--that's Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax--are coming to Yankee Stadium, and tickets go on sale this morning! To all you non-headbanging SOTC readers, this event is essentially as important to metalheads ... More >>

Coming To The Local Sheds This Summer: Lots Of "Heritage Acts" And Country Stars (And Yeasayer)

Yeasayer. Here's hoping things are a bit warmer than this for their shows this summer. ​Today Live Nation announced a slew of shows at Long Island's Nikon at Jones Beach Theater and New Jersey's PNC Bank Arts Center, and in addition to the many classic rock acts (with "classic rock" now being ... More >>

The Big 4 Are Playing Yankee Stadium This September

via FacebookWho gave Mustaine the keys to the Photoshop demo? (Just kidding, Dave!)​This is the news: The second concert event at the new Yankee Stadium has been announced, and oh boy is it a doozy. The metal deities Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax--d/b/a The Big 4--have announced, af ... More >>

Q&A: White Zombie's Sean Yseult On The Band's Early Lower East Side Days: "It Was The '80s, And We Hated Everything"

​White Zombie had rules. One: no solo albums under their own names. So Sean Yseult -- the bassist in the NYC punk-metal monolith, led by growling frontman Rob Zombie, that slowly evolved from mid-'80s CBGBs punks to the '90s alterna-metal titans of "Thunder Kiss '65" and "More Human Than Human ... More >>

Was 2010 The Best Year For Music Ever? American Idol Wobbles, R&B Thrives, And The '90s Rise Again

Welcome to Sound of the City's year-in-review rock-critic roundtable, an amiable ongoing conversation between five prominent Voice critics: Rob Harvilla, Zach Baron, Sean Fennessey, Maura Johnston, and Rich Juzwiak. We'll be here all week! At least one song on this record is really good!​Gent ... More >>

Chink Floyd Are Upset They Didn't Win Our "Worst Band Name In New York" Contest, Which Is A Valid Point

​Fans of this blog's particularly half-assed antagonistic schemes will recall last week's electrifying conclusion to our annual (?!) Worst Band Name in New York contest, won in its inaugural (??!!) year by Ching Chong Song. We have since received, via email, an official objection to this resul ... More >>

Summer Guide: Kelis Tries For A Rebound

With her new album Flesh Tone, the "Milkshake" singer tries on some club-pop

'Art After the Chicano Movement'

A new exhibition tracks an identity through art

Q&A: Iraqi Metal Band Acrassicauda on Moving to Brooklyn, Their Ongoing Green Card Struggles, and Shredding on James Hetfield's Guitar

"I know there are a lot of metal bands that are trying to live like they were already living in war but what I'd say is: you guys have a better life than we did." ​In 2002, with an U.S.-led invasion looming, it seemed unlikely that four young Iraqis, reared on Metallica, Megadeth and Slipknot ... More >>

Arch Enemy+Exodus

We Live In A World Where MGMT Could Lose A Grammy To Hall & Oates

​Hey the Grammy nominations were announced. Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas, Taylor Swift, Maxwell (!!), etc. Best Male Solo Rock Performance is staggeringly old (Dylan, Young, Springsteen, Fogerty, Prince). Best Metal Performance ain't so youthful neither (Slayer, Megadeth, Judas Priest, ... More >>

Live: Children of Bodom, Lamb of God Promote Bloodlust, Energy Drinks at Roseland Ballroom

Michael DownesDue to a broken shoulder, cracked rib, and internal bleeding, Children of Bodom frontman Alexi Laiho tapped out after a mere fifteen minutes on stage last Friday. The show's host, a satellite-radio DJ with a cartoonish growl, goaded out a cheer for the Finnish cripple's effort. But mos ... More >>

Tuesday

BANG YOUR HEAD

It’s metal, metal, and more metal

Celtic Frost Breaks Up

Heavy Metal in Baghdad: Masters of War

A new documentary tracks a brave band's tumultuous quest to rock out

Spring Music Preview: The Teenagers and the Porn/Pop Split

The Teenagers have dirty mouths and an accent

No Context: Exodus and Goatwhore at BB Kings

Download: Lee Hazlewood, 1929-2007

Hasta La Muerte

Vintage thrash metal is back with a vengeance, and it's speaking Spanish

Treasure Chest

Dog Food for Justice

A Tribute to Art and a Tribute From the Heart

Formula Racing

Screeching Old Dixie Down