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Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band from Birmingham, formed in 1969. The core line-up consists of lead vocalist Rob Halford, … Continued
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AC/DC are an Australian hard rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. The band is … Continued
Savatage formed in Florida in 1978 as Avatar, led by brothers Jon (vocals) and Criss (guitar) Oliva. They changed … Continued
Nightwish is a symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland formed in 1996 by songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, … Continued
After recording two solo albums, former Deep Purple vocalist David Coverdale formed Whitesnake around 1977. In … Continued
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Psalms of Conscious Martyrdom is the third studio album by Sri Lankan heavy metal band Stigmata, released in June 2010. The album has been described as…
Indianapolis-based Christian metalcore band Haste the Day specialize in precision-cut machine gun beats and tight, Iron Maiden-inspired…
8 is the eighth full-length studio album by Canadian/Indonesian avant-garde metal band Kekal, announced on June 23, 2010…
Ghost Stories is the second album by the metalcore music group Silent Civilian, the follow-up to Rebirth of the Temple…
For much of the 2000s, a revitalized Saxon catered to accepting European power metal audiences with a…
Heaven Shall Burn fans know what to expect by now — Germany’s premier metalcore band has been bringing…
As a band, Bring Me The Horizon have been on a consistently upward trajectory, adding new elements to their metal core offerings in an effort…
With a combination of sledgehammer breakdowns and brutal lyrical misanthropy, the Acacia Strain’s fifth album, Wormwood, is a lesson in focused hostility…
In This Moment is one of early 21st century America’s best metal bands. They didn’t start out that way, though. On the band’s debut CD, Beautiful Tragedy, they…
The third full-length by Australian metalcore band Parkway Drive finds them changing producers but not their fundamental approach. Where their first…
Daniel Gildenlöw has described the album in interviews as sounding more “jam oriented” with tracks that sound like they…
One thing that you won’t hear a lot of death metal musicians or death metal fans doing is complaining that they…
Not all power metal is epic power metal, but there are certain power metal albums that make a point of being…
German thrash group Dew-Scented are coming up on their 20th anniversary, having formed in 1992. They…
Call it “sludge with benefits.” Fact of the matter is that Rhode Island residents Howl draw the bulk of their musical cues from…
As a rule, you won’t hear folks who aren’t into death metal using terms like “chops,” “technical prowess,” and…
In the three-year interim between 2007′s Ocean Between Us and The Powerless Rise, San Diego’s As I Lay Dying…
On the third album from Cincinnati’s Beneath the Sky, the band delivers a bloody serving of metalcore, melding crawling brutality…
Charismatic name, progressively melodic, metal shredding, mostly instrumental guitar songs and a few rocking vocals mixed in for good measure…
In many different types of music, one can find the stubborn traditionalists who preach to the choir as well as the crossover artists who have a better chance…
It has been said many times but bears repeating: Pro-Pain are a very angry band. And the alternative metal/hardcore…
You can always count on Exodus to supply some good, old-fashioned, downright vicious thrash metal with each release…
On their seventh studio album, Miracle, Nonpoint continue trudging down the same alt-metal path that they started on…
Four long years after IV, Godsmack’s last effort, fans perhaps had some reason for trepidation about the release of…
