I'm Walking Towards Dead End, and I'm Walking All Alone: The Tortured Genius of Alexi Laiho “It sounds like Zakk Wylde, but better.” – Zakk Wylde This is the way that Zakk Wylde, Ozzy Osbourne’s axeman for decades and widely regarded
Every Night The Dream Is The Same: Warrel Dane and the Shakespearean Tragedy of Nevermore’s Dreaming Neon Black When the word tragedy gets used in a literary sense, it generally refers to a play or story that ends unhappily due to the fall
CONCERT REVIEW: BAY AREA THRASHERS ‘EXODUS’ INVADE TORONTO Thrash metal legends Exodus unleashed their ferocious "The Battle Of '24" tour onto Toronto’s Phoenix Concert Theatre on November 19th. Lead
All Secrets Revealed Now, In Paragraphs: An Interview with Opeth's Fredrik Åkesson Reflecting on when Fredrik Åkesson joined Opeth in 2007 after the departure of founding member Peter Lindgren, band frontman and general mastermind Mikael Åkerfeldt said:
CANADIAN METAL AND HOW I GOT INTO METAL MUSIC Let‘s talk about my gateway bands that got me into metal. I am the third of four boys (my poor mom). So you would
MACHINE HEAD Announces 2025 North American Tour With IN FLAMES, LACUNA COIL And UNEARTH MACHINE HEAD have announced a massive North American tour alongside Swedish metal icons IN FLAMES, Italian alt-metallers LACUNA COIL and American metalcore maestros UNEARTH. The
Iron Will: An Interview with Stu Block (Into Eternity, ex-Iced Earth) and Frank Hetzel (Beltfed Weapon) Frank Hetzel has been a giant in the Seattle metal community for many years – so much so that it’s been said that any metal
Hamilton's ComicCon: Meeting A Legendary Rock Musician, Movie and TV Celebrities And So Much More Hamilton Comic Con was held this weekend and I had the opportunity to go there and see what it was all about. The place was
Practice What You Preach: An Interview with Alex Skolnick (Testament, Savatage, Metal Allegiance) The term “renaissance man” is generally used to describe someone who excels in a number of different areas across a number of different disciplines. No
And So Dear Friends, You Just Have to Carry On: An Interview with Karl Agell (Legions of Doom, ex-Corrosion of Conformity) When then-hardcore band Corrosion of Conformity was looking for a new lead singer in 1989, they placed an ad in the classified section of The
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.
If You Like What You Hear, Then Go Tell Somebody: An Interview with dUg Pinnick (King's X) Doug (dUg) Pinnick has been at this for a while. In fact, his first interactions with music predate even his own memory. When Steve and
