Album Review: Awake At Last – Life/Death/Rebirth EP
Awake At Last takes us on a hell of journey resulting in their theatrical concept album.
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Awake At Last takes us on a hell of journey resulting in their theatrical concept album.
Ryan, Jeff and Holly from Bloodstrike talk about the provocative artwork on their new release In Death We Rot, top albums and shows of 2015 and the first Metalix discussion of necrophilia.
Death Cab For Cutie are streaming their new album “Kintsugi” a week before its release.
The debate of the many subgenre distinctions of metal goes on, this time focusing on Japanese band Babymetal. In this editorial, Brad Lopez argues that metal fans are wasting effort attacking or defending Babymetal.
Dissonance In Design vocalist Stevie Boiser discusses Sentient, a progressive death metal science fiction concept album. Metalix airs Mondays at 9p ET on idobi Howl.
Filled with expletives and breakdowns, The Acacia Strain bring a full course meal to the table that the masses will gobble up. It’s the most complete album from them to date, filled with both power and finesse.
Rock The Walls host Patrick Walford had the chance to interview Job For A Cowboy when they were in Toronto on the Metalliance Tour. Vocalist Jonny Davy and bassist Nick Schendzielos provided some funny commentary on heavy music and how they feel about deathcore lyrics.
Death Cab for Cutie and “The O.C.” have had a symbiotic relationship almost since the teen beach drama began in August, 2003. Protagonist Seth Cohen (actor Adam Brody) named-dropped the Washington state indie-rockers liberally and sported posters of the group on his wall, giving them mainstream exposure they probably never expected. In turn, Seth, his refined taste, and the show itself have earned a stellar reputation in music-geek circles. Death Cab have had their music featured in key scenes before, but the group will finally perform on “The O.C.” on April 20. The group will play two songs from its… Read more »
Los Angeles – Academia’s loss is heavy metal’s gain. Ian Kilmister, a.k.a. Lemmy, the frontman for Grammy-winning English rock trio Motorhead, could have made a stimulating history professor, sharing his begrudging admiration for Goering and disdain for “bastards” like Hitler and Roosevelt with eager students. Instead, the 59-year-old achieved cult fame with generations of headbangers by singing and writing furious anthems like “Killed By Death” and “Orgasmatron.” But he remains fascinated by World War II and he spends his money collecting Nazi memorabilia, which is piled high in his two-bedroom apartment off the Sunset Strip. “I was born in ’45,… Read more »
Kurt Cobain and his band, Nirvana, spent only three years in the public eye, and they released only three studio albums. But what he accomplished before committing suicide 10 years ago Monday at age 27 – deciding it was “better to burn out than fade away,” as he quoted Neil Young in his suicide note – was remarkable. Beneath this bridge above the muddy banks of the Wishkah River, a troubled young Cobain would come to escape his unhappy home and the persistent gray drizzle of the Washington coast. Among the cracking concrete supports, he would smoke pot and drink… Read more »
