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CKY honors the late Brent Hinds with a posthumous solo feature just before his one-year anniversary, while national lineup shakeups at Slipknot, Nevermore, and My Dying Bride offer lessons for Pennsylvania's own thrash, doom, and speed metal underground.
STRYFE's new Candlepower Records deal headlines a week that also touches on Sepultura's warning about art under authoritarianism, Aaron Stainthorpe's post-My Dying Bride doom project, and California's overlooked technical death metal and crust punk underground.
Doro Pesch and Dave Mustaine reflect on survival and legacy while Haywire, Plush, and LA's Stryfe sign new deals — plus Abbath's onstage meltdown and Gene Hoglan's legal fight offer a cautionary tale for the business side of US metal.
Andi Deris, Geddy Lee, and Doro Pesch make the case for playing it straight after decades on stage, while Abbath's Finnish festival meltdown shows what happens when the road wins — all filtered through Ohio's own post-metal, gothic, and thrash underground.
Metal Injection's ranking of the greatest Rivers of Nihil songs puts Reading's progressive death metal scene back in the national spotlight, while Pennsylvania's black metal underground and this week's national headlines offer plenty else to unpack.
Florida metalcore act Wage War lands a new video while Saxon's studio update and Slash's comments on young guitarists offer a lens into the state's traditional metal, thrash, and death metal underground.
US Metal Index tracks 14,970 bands and 1,446 venues, but only 538 upcoming shows — meaning roughly 3.6% of all indexed bands currently have a date on the books, with Denver converting bands to shows at the highest rate of any major city.
From Pain Of Truth's national breakout to Dee Snider's Long Island roots getting dragged into an Ozzy Osbourne feud, this week's metal headlines kept circling back to New York — with Slash, Helloween, and Slipknot's messy lineup shakeup along for the ride.
Dogstar's Fallon appearance, Slipknot's chaotic Sid Wilson exit, and the Osbourne-Snider feud dominate this week's national metal news — but the real story is how California's black metal, grind, and crust underground keeps quietly building around it.
From Dee Snider's Ozzy feud to CKY's posthumous Brent Hinds tribute and a bitter Death/Massacre falling-out, this week's national metal headlines all trace back to legacy, credit, and memory — themes Texas's death metal, doom, and crossover thrash scenes know intimately.
From Chad Gray's high-stakes 30th anniversary solo tour to CKY's tribute to the late Brent Hinds and Wage War's surprise new single, this week's metal news finds the US scene balancing legacy with fresh momentum.
A grindcore tour's accidental namedrop of Ohio's own Asphalt kicks off a wider look at this week's metal news, from Wage War's surprise single to CKY's tribute to Brent Hinds, all viewed through the lens of Ohio's crossover thrash, metalcore, and death metal underground.
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