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October 17, 2026

Acid Bath, High on Fire, The Melvins & Windhand: Four Distinct Visions of Heavy Music Converge in Santa Cruz – Concert Review & Photos

The Quarry Amphitheater — Santa Cruz, California — October 10, 2026 The Quarry Amphitheater at UC Santa Cruz brought together…

October 13, 2026

BEAT Brings Progressive Rock Brilliance to the Quarry Amphitheater – Concert Review & Photos

Santa Cruz, California | October 9, 2026 Some music never loses its ability to surprise. Decades after redefining the possibilities…

September 23, 2026

Stick Men Make Three Sound Like an Orchestra in Santa Cruz – Concert Review & Photos

There are few things more satisfying in progressive rock than watching musicians take a format that should be physically impossible…

September 20, 2026

Phil Soussan: The Bassist Behind “Shot in the Dark” Steps Into His Own Spotlight – Interview

Bassist, songwriter, and producer Phil Soussan has spent over four decades as one of hard rock’s most reliable secret weapons…

September 10, 2026

Brian Tichy Steps Out From Behind the Kit With Led By Vultures – Interview

Drummer, vocalist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Brian Tichy has spent decades as one of rock’s most in-demand sidemen, holding down the…

September 1, 2026

Wolverhampton Drowns, Then Roars: Accept Bring 50 Years to KK’s Steel Mill – Concert Review & Photos

There are shows you attend, and there are shows you survive. Tonight was the latter before it was ever the…

August 27, 2026

Europe’s Mic Michaeli on Forty Years of Reinvention – Interview

Nine years is a long time to leave a room in silence. It’s long enough for a sound to calcify…

July 15, 2026

Classic Albums Live’s Led Zeppelin II: A Masterclass in Musical Fidelity at Bridgewater Hall – Concert Review

Classic Albums Live’s performance of Led Zeppelin II at Bridgewater Hall on Tuesday 30 June 2026 felt like a masterclass…

July 10, 2026

God Bless America – Best of Thirsty: An Interview With the Band Behind the Tribute

Guy Bailey spent his career writing songs that served the song, not himself. As founder of The Quireboys and the…

July 3, 2026

MOONSPELL Return from Exile on the Deliberate, Atmospheric `Far From God` – Album Review

Five years is a long time to be silent — particularly for a band that spent much of the previous…

June 25, 2026

TODOMAL’s `Graveyards of Joy` Is a Trilogy-Closing Reckoning with Loss, Landscape, and the Stubborn Persistence of Hope – Album Review

There is a painting on the cover of Graveyards of Joy — Ruïnes (1865) by Catalan artist Lluís Rigalt that…

June 24, 2026

Download 2026: Three Days of Chaos, Catharsis, and Crowd Surfing at Donington

Download XXIII Festival (2026) – Review by Howard Keogh Photos by Enda Madden Download Festival is still evolving. This year’s…

June 13, 2026

Bloodstock Open Air 2026 Preview: Twenty-Five Years in the Field

Twenty-five years is a long time to keep anything alive – let alone an independently owned, uncompromising heavy metal festival…

June 12, 2026

“Krew i Pył” (Blood and Dust): The Polish Extreme Metal Underground and the Weight of a Nation

My grandmother came to America after the Second World War with her Catholic faith largely intact and almost nothing else.…

June 11, 2026

Iceland’s Next Voice: FORSMÁN Arrive with `Brenndar Rústir & Fuðrandi Fjörur` – Album Review

Iceland’s black metal scene has earned its reputation not through volume alone but through a genuine conviction that is difficult…

June 8, 2026

The Weight of What Remains: FIRES IN THE DISTANCE Deepen Their Vision on `Circadian Promise` – Album Review

There is a category of album that announces itself not through force but through gravity – records that don’t demand…

June 8, 2026

Two Fires, Different Woods: UADA, Blackbraid, and the Soul of American Black Metal

Black metal has always been a music of place. Its most canonical recordings carry geography in their DNA – the…

June 6, 2026

NUCLEAR TOMB’s `Epoch Inhumane` Is the Sound of Progressive Thrash Fully Metabolized – Album Review

There’s a strain of thrash that has always been more interested in the wrong chord than the right riff, more…

June 4, 2026

From Invocation to Benediction: KHEMMIS Conjures Their Defining Statement – Album Review

There is an argument to be made that choosing to self-title your fifth album is an act of either supreme…

June 3, 2026

Two Testaments, One Truth – An Interview with Chuck Billy

He screamed his way into metal history. Then cancer tried to silence him for good. Chuck Billy — the iconic…