photos & words by Austin Spruill As the blistering summer of 2022 winds down into the cooler weather of fall, musicians and fans alike are treated to a number of high-profile festivals raging across the country, from Welcome to Rockville and Inkcarceration to Rocklahoma and Louder Than Life. However, few were as highly anticipated as this year’s incarnation of Blue Ridge Rock Festival, taking place from September 8–11. Hosted at the world-renowned Virginia International Raceway in Alton, VA, hopes were high for the relatively young festival, as the successes and challenges of 2021 propelled the event further into the spotlight… Read more »
Radio Uprising showcases the greatest bands and artists that tomorrow has to offer, including: Games We Play, girlfriends, Then It Ends, and dreamfone
idobi Radio is spinning the alternative tracks you need to add to your day…
There’s nothing about Like Pacific that doesn’t leave listeners with the warm n’ fuzzies.
This week on the Rock The Walls Podcast, Patrick Walford speaks with Suicide Silence vocalist, Eddie Hermida! The two talk in-depth about the band’s new self-titled album, the writing/recording of it, what pushed both Hermida and the band to change sound on the new album, recording vocals on the album and how it was different recording every track on the album start to finish on every take with no punching in and out of parts, working with producer Ross Robinson and more. Plus, does Hermida still consider Suicide Silence a deathcore band? Subscribe to the Rock The Walls Podcast here and… Read more »
Trax and Bryan drop into the Metalix studio and utter the word “sicnasty” as many times as they can.
Whether you’re catching your all time favorite band or seeking out something new, here are a handful of the 2016 tours you’ll want to save the date for.
After working out the kinks with their EP “False Hope” in 2012, Feign comes back hard–seriously hard–with “The New World Order.”
Even if you’re convinced that a band changing their sound is the worst thing that’s ever happened to you, it’s perfectly natural for someone’s music to develop and shift from album to album. But every once in a while, those shifts are so dramatic that the early work ends up sounding like it was released by an entirely different band than the more recent material.
“Sellout” has always been the dirty word of the music world — far worse than anythings with four letters. But does it still hold the same weight it used to?
