There have been some amazing documentaries about heavy metal bands over the years and a new one based on New Zealand’s Alien Weaponry is making its way to this year’s Tribeca Film Festival in New York City next month. Directed by Kent Belcher and produced by Nigel McCulloch, Alien Weaponry: Kua Tupu Te Ara takes a deep look into the band’s...

They may be performing at this year’s Metal Injection Festival, but that won’t be the only time you’ll have a chance to catch Cognitive live in the near future. Turns out they’ve also got a tour lined up with Dysentery and Atræ Bilis set for this summer, too. Running from July 18 in sunny Clifton, New Jersey and coming to an end in Mechanicsburg,...

Two death metal bands from across the pond descended upon the Warsaw in Brooklyn last month, giving American fans a taste of their chaos and fury. Or in other words, Polish outfit Decapitated joined forces with Grecce’s Septicflesh for a night of brutality on April 28. As you can tell from the photos expertly shot by Smitty Neal, it was a helluva...

With his debut solo album coming out this Friday, the media firestorm surrounding Slayer guitarist Kerry King has been constant. We’re almost reaching peak “what does Corey Taylor think” levels here, but what can we say — the dude knows how to spout out an interesting soundbite. Take, for instance, his latest commentary on Iron Maiden and their recent...

What do you get when you take a topic like artificial intelligence and create a song based on the combination of a proggy, experiemental post-hardcore socio-political musical project with the batshit vocal stylings of The Callous Daoboys’ Carson Pace? You get more than the word salad in that last sentence — you get “Commence Mutation”, the latest...

Yet another major step in the apparent Marilyn Manson return arc has taken place, as he’s now signed with major metal label Nuclear Blast Records. Revealed in a short video online, it seems like the shock rocker’s marching forward to a place of apparent normalcy for his career just a couple years after being summarily tossed out of the industry back...