Slayer (Band)

H.R. of Bad Brains is Not Crazy, Insists Jamie Saft

With a monstrously flowing godlike beard, multi-instrumental guru Jamie Saft resembles a Hasidic mountain man who should be jamming on meaty blues licks with his beloved ZZ Top instead of the downtown avant-gardist and John Zorn ensemble vet for which he's known. The catch is, dude actually makes hi ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts in New York This Weekend, 3/15/13

Here are the 10 best concerts to check out around the city this weekend, in no particular order.

Brutal Truth

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 >>

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 >>

Say Goodbye to Angels & Kings, RBC NYC

​​It's a dog-eat-dog world out there. Know of any restaurants or bars opening or closing? Drop us a line. East Village bar Angels & Kings by Peter Wentz closed several weeks back and no one seemed to notice. According to their Facebook page: "Unfortunately, its with great sadness that we annou ... More >>

Live: Pilgrim Plant The Doom Metal Flag At Public Assembly

Pilgrim Public Assembly Thursday, March 1 Better than: Seeing what new lows The Office has sunk to. A few things you should know about Pilgrim before we even get started. The band members are named The Wizard, Count Elric the Soothsayer and, perhaps most awesomely, Krolg Splinterfist, Slayer of Ma ... More >>

Anthrax

Megadeath+Motörhead+Volbeat

The Afghan Whigs Are Getting Back Together And Playing Next Year's I'll Be Your Mirror Festival In Asbury Park

​A year and change ago SOTC emerituses (emereti?) Rob Harvilla and Zach Baron said it seemed at least a bit likely, and now it's really happening: The Afghan Whigs, the Cincinnati chroniclers of suffering for love while swaddling one's self in soul to help ease the pain a bit, will be getting ... 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 >>

'The Big 4'

Diamond Head

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 >>

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 >>

Rock-Critic Pop Quiz #8: Can You Name All Three Members Of Sleater-Kinney?

Ordinarily there'd be some sort of joke in this caption, but at the moment we're a little intimidated.​For weeks now, our weekly music-writer embarrassment session "Are You Smarter Than a Rock Critic?" has puttered along innocently, proving just how precious little this generation of Wikipedia ... 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 >>

Exodus

Summer Guide: Kelis Tries For A Rebound

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

Opeth

Kreator

Sloan-Kettering Wins Iron Chef of Hospital Food; Pop-up Restaurants Abound

​Pop-up restaurants are a great way to allow young chefs to experiment with new menus without the risk of bankruptcy. And, unlike underground supper clubs, they're legal. [NY Times] Memorial Sloan-Kettering's executive chef took top prize when kitchen chiefs from top hospitals around the city ... More >>

Open & Closed: Say Hello to Carteles; Goodbye to Aamchi Pao

Colicchio & Sons has opened in the Craftsteak space with a menu based on the Tom: Tuesday Dinner series. The front Tap Room boasts a wood burning oven and extensive beer list. [Eater] The Munch Truck has launched at the corner of 56th Street and Park Avenue, serving standard cart food (falafel, gyr ... More >>

Arch Enemy+Exodus

The Top 5 Records Sold Last Week at Music Matters in Brooklyn

In 2009, the traditional practice of exchanging physical copies of records for money is a trade that might best be called quixotic. But New Yorkers are stubborn people, and the record store is not dead. Below, the top ten records that actually sold in the last week at a store near you. ​Befor ... More >>

Booze News: Custom Ice Abounds; Booze Hounds Healthier Mentally & Physically

​A new breed of mixologist is obsessed with ice, using enormous cubes custom made by ice sculpture suppliers, ice balls the size of oranges, and long ice tubes for highballs. Dilution has become a dirty word. [NY Times] With a new Whole Foods in the space formerly occupied by the legendary ja ... More >>

All Hail White Wizzard and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal

Tranny-welcoming L.A. dudes hop in their GTO and escape from evil girlfriends, each other

The Ecstatic Violence of Villains

Jovially brutal metalheads actually say the mean things you're thinking

WHEN VIKINGS ATTACK

Opeth and Enslaved wield their battle axes

I SHOT THAT

Tod Seelie goes from Vice to solo show

Fast, Brutal, and Out of Control

One thing war is evidently good for: metal

Hasta La Muerte

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

The Man in Black

Banks Violette tones down the death metal, but still torches drums

More tough talk from America's catchiest badasses

Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight

Hip-Hop's New No Wave

Downtown's odd relationship with rap bravado continues this fall—now with Muppet costumes

Thrash Jihad

Another season in the abyss with outraged, outrageous metalheads. Write your congressman.

So Dark

Dark Room turns one; Cyril's in the Hamptons

Metal Survivors and Doom-Jazz Upstarts Sludge Into the Void

Feline Metal Band Delivers Metal Album, Like Many Metal Bands Before Them

Music

Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

Seminal speedmetal thrashers, despised by their own fans, seek and find psychiatric help

Hellspawn Freeze Over

Swedes Stay Put for Satan

Slay Miserables

Notes From Underground

Territorial Pissings

Dookie from Dubuque

Dope Whites on Non-Punk

The Unbands

Is That a Synthesizer in Your Pants?