Metal and Hardcore

Metallica - Apollo Theater - 9/21/13

Better Than: Megadeth. It was anything but amateur night at the Apollo Theater Saturday night as Metallica, unarguably the world's preeminent metal band, raged through a two hour-plus private concert on the hallowed Harlem stage. About 1,500 SiriusXM listeners were the fortunate audience members, ... More >>

I Pissed Off Megadeth, My (Former) Favorite Band

When I began interviewing bands eight years ago, my ultimate goal was to interview one person: Dave Mustaine from Megadeth, my favorite band since I was thirteen years old. Sitting in front of my parents' computer and ruining my ears through a pair of oversize headphones, I listened and loved Mustai ... More >>

The Sword's John Cronise: Metal Fans Deserve Better Than the New Black Sabbath Album

By Darryl Smyers Formed in Austin nearly a decade ago, The Sword is one of the heaviest bands to emerge from that scene. Full of monstrous guitar riffs and typically bombastic sci-fi themes, the four Sword albums are intense, thought-provoking and filled with good humor. The band's most recent effo ... More >>

Megadeth

Daughn Gibson

Huntress

The Top 20 New York Hardcore and Metal Albums of All Time

New York has a very rich history of strong contributions to heavy music. While the NYHC pioneers get worshipped (and justly so), New York often gets overlooked in discussions of other influential heavy music scenes. Our below choices for the Top 20 New York Hardcore and Metal Albums of All-Time will ... More >>

From Balloon Boy to Signing Boobs: Meet the World's Youngest Metal Band, the Heene Boyz

Hey, remember the Balloon Boy from 2009? If you don't, that's okay! Wikipedia never forgets. Falcon Heene, the-little-boy-that-could-fly-OOPS-nevermind-he-was-in-the-garage-the-whole-time-and-his-dad-went-to-jail is now the lead singer of what is being (self-) proclaimed as "the world's youngest met ... More >>

Ten Metal Albums to Hear Before You Die

Experts. The world is full of them, now more than ever. There are panels full of them on cable news every night. They're clogging up your Twitter timeline. You overhear them everyday on the train. Everyone everywhere is an authority on everything. Everyone's an expert. Like "hipster" or "passion," t ... More >>

Napalm Death's Barney Greenway on Thatcher, Nostalgia and the Pursuit of Happiness

By Nathan Smith Most of the people who pass Mark "Barney" Greenway in the street every day almost certainly have no idea what the man does for a living. His sensible haircut, unassuming demeanor and soft-spoken Birmingham accent betray nothing of his status as one of the most ferocious and accompli ... More >>

The Best Bands Featuring the Album Art of John Dyer Baizley

Tonight Norwegian power rock band Kvelertak play Webster Hall along with Georgia stoner hardcore metallers Black Tusk. (Canadian punks Cancer Bats open, as well.) Besides loudness and shouted vocals (in very different languages), what do Kvelertak and Black Tusk have in common? That would be the a ... 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 >>

Escape - Saint Vitus - 4/29/13

Better Than: A Cuban cigar. On Saturday night, Cuban metal band Escape played their first NYC gig at Tobacco Road in Manhattan; last night, they played Saint Vitus in Brooklyn. In so doing, they made history. They are the first metal band from Cuba to perform in the United States. And it took the h ... More >>

Death-Metal Band The Faceless Draw Criticism for Becoming Less Death-Metal

By Jason Roche When music from Los Angeles metal group The Faceless' newest album, Autotheism, began to leak out into the blogosphere last summer, fans were divided, and so were critics. "A botched experiment of sorts," opined SputnikMusic.com; "razor sharp," countered ThePRP.com. The group's prev ... More >>

From Hesher to Hardcore: Lewis Dimmick on His New Book This Music

In the early 80's, the phenomenon known as Hardcore Punk whipped through the U.S. like the pissed off, privileged child that it was. By the mid '80s though, most of the bands who coined the sound and term were either donning black and weeping or doing bad AC/DC impressions. There were also those who ... More >>

The Best Metal Shows in NYC This Month (A/K/A Extended Saint Vitus Listings)

These are the best metal shows in NYC in April.\m/

The Best Metal Concerts in New York This Month

These are the best metal shows in NYC this month. See also: The Ten Best Metal Albums of 2012

The Best Metal Concerts in NYC This Month

These are the best metal shows in NYC this month. See also: The Ten Best Metal Albums of 2012

Former Metallica Bassist Jason Newsted Is Back to Kicking Asses Again

Pulling no punches

Dethklok - Roseland Ballroom - 11/14/12

Better Than: Almost everything. Dude. On Friday night, Dethklok played the Roseland Ballroom, and our brains are still recovering from the awesomeness. Here are the ten best things that happened. See Also: - Exclusive Interview: Dethklok's Skwisgaar Skwigelf Makes Fake Boobs Explode - The Ten Best ... More >>

High on Fire

"You Don't Need A College Degree To Rock" and Other Words of Wisdom From Teenage Thrash Band ShitKill

There are two things you should know about NYC thrash band ShitKill. The first is that they're some of the most promising young metal musicians we've seen in a long time. The second is that, when we say young, we mean barely old enough to vote: none of them are over 18-years-old. See Also: - Live: ... More >>

The 25 Creepiest Heavy Metal Album Covers

By Jason Roche Halloween is the time where it's acceptable to wallow in the creepy, the crawly, the dark, and the macabre. Sounds like the themes of heavy metal, year-round! Here then, are those most spine-tingliest metal album covers, for your All Hallow's Eve viewing pleasure. Step inside... Th ... More >>

Prong - The Star of Palm Beach @ Rocks Off Boat Cruise - 10/19/2012

Better Than: Watching Titanic while "I'm sailing away / Set an open course for the virgin seas..." (sung by South Park's Cartman, of course) runs through your head. Setting sail for a metal show on the not-so-open seas, concessions must be made. Booze du nuit: Seven (Seagram's) and Seven's (7-up), ... More >>

GWAR Won't Be Happy Until They Take Down "God Himself"

They don't come much more politically incorrect than GWAR. Despite two Grammy nods (their Phallus in Wonderland video losing to Annie Lennox in one instance), they're not exactly mainstream. Frontman Oderus Urungus, head of the Virginia-bred metal/satire/performance art band since their mid-80s ince ... More >>

The Very Busy Phil Anselmo Talks Beatles And Blues Before Show At Best Buy Theater

The metal lineup thundering into the Best Buy Theater tonight should be called the Housecore Records Tour: ex-Pantera frontman and Housecore Records founder Phil Anselmo has produced or is performing in all but one of the four bands on the bill. Both the openers, Haarp and WARBEAST--from Louisiana ... More >>

Iron Maiden+Alice Cooper

Metallica Hits the Lights

Looking back on its legacy at Orion Music + More

Lasers, Inquisition, And A Cameo By The Wanted: The 10 Most Metal Moments Of Saint Vitus's One-Year Anniversary Week

On April 12, St. Vitus—the metal outpost in Greenpoint—turned one year old, but the birthday celebration went down between April 23 and April 28. Bands, cartoons, go-go girls, celebrities, sacrilege, and a metal magician were in attendance. "It was chaos," says bartender and co-owner Ju ... 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: Lamb Of God Build Their Wall Of Death At Irving Plaza

Lamb Of God Irving Plaza Tuesday, January 24 Better than: Pretty much everyone on Ozzfest 2003. Rap metal entered its death throes in the early 2000s, allowing harder bands that had actually competent musicians and aggression directed at someone other than their parents to come back into vogue. ... More >>

Megadeath+Motörhead+Volbeat

Helmet

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 >>

'The Big 4'

Diamond Head

Q&A: Nader Sadek On Wearing Deicide T-Shirts In Cairo And Humanity's Oil-Fueled Pursuit Of Its Own Destruction

Egypt-born visual artist Nader Sadek has been bringing the worlds of avant-garde art and extreme metal together for several years. His 2007 installation Faceless arose out of his experiences living as a metalhead in Cairo, and combined oddly Edward Gorey-ish drawings of a niqab-clad woman standing ... More >>

Deftones+Dillinger Escape Plan

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 >>

Sepultura

Wormrot

'Finnish Metal Tour 2'

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 >>

The Best Local Music Of 2010: Our Annual Mixtape Starring Sweet Bulbs, Marnie Stern, Sharon Van Etten, and Special Guest Hannibal Buress

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. This is a compilation of 2010's best local music, lovingly curated by YIMBY columnist Christopher R. Weingarten. See last year's tape here. R.I.P. Chris Weingarten's old blue trucker hat. Photo by Rebecca ... More >>

Live: A Revitalized Ozzy Osbourne And Rob Halford Stay Young At Madison Square Garden

Good advice. Pics by Phil Freeman, more below.​Ozzy Osbourne/Rob Halford Madison Square Garden Wednesday, December 1 Better than: Any other Ozzy performance of the 2000s. Ozzy Osbourne is turning 62 on Friday. That makes him older than his new guitarist (the shredtastic Gus G. of Greek power ... More >>

Live: Suffocation Command A Death-Metal Army At Gramercy Theatre

And now, a word from Suffocation's Frank Mullen Suffocation/The Faceless/Through the Eyes of the Dead/Decrepit Birth/ Fleshgod Apocalypse/Suppressed Theory Gramercy Theatre Saturday, October 16 Better Than: Taking an actual beating. Jesus H. Christ. There was a time (I'm not gonna say I remembe ... More >>

Exodus