Metal and Hardcore

Chat Pile Were a Thrilling Enigma in Toronto

Lee's Palace, September 23

PUBLISHED Sep 24, 2023

Chat Pile is a strange and cavernous enigma. Everything about the Oklahoma City quartet — whose members, vocalist Raygun Busch, guitarist L...

Tomb Mold's 'The Enduring Spirit' Is an Unstoppable Ascension

PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2023

Death metal is metal's most overbearing and blunt subgenre. Often depicting cruelty, violence, disease and cynicism, the genre has a reputa...

KEN Mode Are Cold, Brutal and Somehow Inviting on 'Void'

PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2023

There are many ways people deal with trauma, with pain, with isolation. Some retreat into themselves; others search for company and connect...

​KEN mode Reclaim Their Crown: "We Became Like Poison — Pariahs"

PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2023

What do you do when you're a highly respected heavy act who have worked with some of the most sought-after producers in metal and punk, won...

Deftones' Stephen Carpenter Teases New Music with Producer Nick Raskulinecz

PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2023

Deftones had a "little something brewing" last summer following their 2020 album Ohms, and that brew is slowly, but surely coming to a boil...

Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson Announces New Solo Album 'The Mandrake Project'

PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2023

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson has shared plans for a new solo album. The vocalist has announced a new effort titled The Mandrake Pro...

Scream Drummer Kent Stax Has Died

PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2023

Kent Stax, drummer for Virginia-raised, D.C.-based hardcore veterans Scream, has died of cancer. The musician is survived by his wife of 4...

Marilyn Manson Gets Fine, Community Service for Blowing Nose on Photographer

PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2023

While it's hardly the most heinous of the crimes Marilyn Manson has allegedly committed, it was definitely gross and rude. A New Hampshire...