Masked jazz-metal weirdos Imperial Triumphant go pop with new track Eye Of Mars. Not really: they’re still masked and weird.
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Masked jazz-metal weirdos Imperial Triumphant go pop with new track Eye Of Mars. Not really: they’re still masked and weird.
Tech-metal’s golden boys sound as incomprehensible as ever on their new song
Watch the full, pro-shot footage of Meshuggah decimating Summer Breeze festival this summer
Tech-metal masters Meshuggah played a crushing 80-minute set at Summer Breeze in August, and you can watch the whole thing online for free
Watch The Smashing Pumpkins perform three '90s anthems you didn't see them play on TV
The Smashing Pumpkins performed their new single Sighommi on American television last night, but that wasn't all they played
Mike Shinoda might be a world famous rock star, but to his children, he's just another clueless dad
Mike Shinoda recalls how his wife blew their daughter's mind by showing her a Linkin Park live video
"It's a banger!" Swallow The Sun share video for anthemic new single MelancHoly
Finnish doomy proggers Swallow The Sun's new album Shining will be released in October
Swollen Teeth release new single Family, produced by Ross Robinson and Slipknot’s Sid Wilson
Your favourite masked nu metal band (apart from that one and the other one) have returned with a new single, backed by two of their genre’s most influential figures
Prog metal collective The Ocean announce The End Of An Eon, final tour with current lineup
Prog/post-metal beloveds The Ocean will embark on one more European tour before resurfacing with different members
Watch Arch Enemy’s Alissa White-Gluz team with Charlotte Wessels (ex-Delain) in video for brand-new single Ode To The West Wind
The team-up is taken from Wessels’ upcoming solo album, The Obsession
Devin Townsend references his time in The Wildhearts in atmospheric and anthemic new single Jainism
Devin Townsend will release his brand new album PowerNerd, the first of a new trilogy of releases, in October
Watch Linkin Park play new single The Emptiness Machine live on The Tonight Show
Nu metal heroes Linkin Park took over Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show and performed the first single from upcoming comeback album From Zero
Poppy teams with former Bring Me The Horizon and Fever 333 members for metallic new single They’re All Around Us
Former Bring Me The Horizon man Jordan Fish produced the heavy new Poppy track, which was also co-written by ex-Fever 333/The Chariot guitarist Stephen Harrison
Viral shredder Sophie Lloyd announces debut US concert, shares cover of Alice Cooper’s Poison
Guitar virtuoso Sophie Lloyd will play her first-ever US headliner at the Whisky A Go Go in January
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