It's Maynard's Birthday Party and I'll Buy If I Want To... Usually when you buy a ticket to go see a show, you walk in the doors and are fairly certain of what you’re going
In Flames at Warsaw (Greenpoint, NY) In Flames played their first headlining show in Brooklyn in almost 25 years on May 3rd in Greenpoint, Brooklyn at Warsaw. It was the Swedish
The Sonic Ride: Johan Borgede of Astroqueen on the Band’s Hiatus, Reunion and Future Astroqueen released their full-length debut, Into Submission, in 2001. It is a cult classic in the world of stoner rock and metal. To date, they
No Words: The Versatile Role of the Instrumental on the Classic Metal Album Sometimes, all you need is the music. Literally, just the music. No vocals. I’ve always been a huge fan of a fully instrumental track.
Stepping Outside the (Concert Comfort) Circle: Shadows Fall’s 20th Anniversary Show for The War Within Shadows Fall’s 20th Anniversary Show for The War Within
Nine Songs from the Nineties ...and the Muses That Inspired Them On a surface level, most songs you hear are fairly straight forward in their meanings. You’ve got your classic themes: love, anger, betrayal, depression,
A Light in the Black: Seven Songs That Explain the History and Legacy of Rainbow If you grew up in the late 1980s and early 1990s like I did, you think you know all you need to know about classic
A Series of Unfortunate Concert Events…and Some (Written) Rules to Enhance Your Experience I’ve been to a lot of different shows in a lot of different places lately. And what I’ve been seeing has been making
I’m Judge and I’m Jury and I’m Executioner, Too: Who Deserves the Most Blame for Metallica’s St. Anger? I regret to inform you all that I had a very unfortunate experience about a week ago. I listened to Metallica’s 2003 release, St.
Can't You (Road) Trip Like I Do? Summer is finally here! The weather’s warm and the living is easy. Time to relax, enjoy some time off, and maybe take a vacation
The World's Gonna End in a Month or So: Queens of the Stone Age's In Times New Roman... Josh Homme has been through some shit since we last heard from him and his bandmates on 2017’s Villains. In fact, it all started
Left Far Behind: ‘90s One-Hit Wonders You Probably Forgot About Not all one-hit wonders are created equal. Some endure the test of time and become songs that play on the radio, in grocery stores, in
