Kevin Stewart-Panko
Streaming: Getting Violent and Rotten with Rottenness’ Violentopia
May 19, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Take the new album by Mexican-American death grinders Rottenness for a spin!
Streaming: Kissing the Sky with Gramma Vedetta’s The Hum of the Machine
May 19, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Hear London-based duo Gramma Vedetta offer their take on stoner rock/metal via third release and debut full-length, The Hum of the Machine.
Streaming: Deaf Club Keep the Hits Coming with Bad Songs Forever
May 5, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Stream Bad Songs Forever, the forthcoming EP by sonic agitators, Deaf Club!
Track Premiere: Aussie Ragers Battlegrave Grow from Humble Beginnings to Cavernous Depths
April 21, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out a new track (and its “divebomb for the ages”) by Aussie rippers Battlegrave!
Video Premiere: Hyperia Showcase Beery Guitar Playthroughs and Wedded Bliss with “Experiment 77”
April 7, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
For Canadians Hyperia, beer and thrash metal are the ingredients to a successful playthrough video and marriage!
Power and Glory Ride to British Columbia: An Interview with Hyperspace Festival Organizer, Joey Hockin
March 24, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Joey Hockin talks about how the ingredients of planning, having faith and never stopping went into Hyperspace Metal Fest 2022.
Full Album Stream: Enter the Sullen Murk of Idol of Fear’s Trespasser
March 10, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Listen to Canadian miserablists Idol of Fear do Canadian metal!
Video Premiere: Catching Whiffs of Dystopia with Depleted Uranium’s “Beta Particles”
February 24, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Take a gander at a two-part video from Toronto grinders Depleted Uranium!
Video Premiere: Entering the Final, Final Frontier With Red Fiction’s “Clone 13”
February 10, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Brass-heavy metallers Red Fiction ask the age-old question: “What happens if the last human to escape the Earth he just destroyed was judged by soul-sucking Aliens?”
Track Premiere: Getting Heshy with Tantivy’s “Worthy Foe”
January 27, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
The new single from rockin’ thrashers Tantivy is certainly worthy of your attention!
Video Premiere and Interview: A Crash Course in How to Rule India’s Metal Scene with Demonstealer’s Sahil Makhija
January 27, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Demonstealer schools us about India’s metal history and premieres a new video!
Full Album Stream: Chilean Sludge/Stoner/Doom Crushers Ocultum Scrape Off the Residue
January 13, 2022 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out a stream of the latest album from Chilean stoner/doom body breakers Ocultum!
Track Premiere: Dust Prophet – “Hourglass”
December 30, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Hear Dust Prophet marry classic metal with literary classics on “Hourglass.”
Video Premiere: Deaf Club Skirts Around the Law with “Shoplift from Jail”
December 16, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Watch the new video from spazzy grind project, Deaf Club!
EP Stream: Check Your Head with Killer Hill’s Fantastic Frozen Head
December 2, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the new Killer Hill EP, featuring current and ex members of Helmet, Guzzard, Afterbirth and Burning Brides!
Jason Newsted Details the History of Flotsam and Jetsam and Doomsday for the Deceiver
November 18, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out an interview with Jason Newsted about Flotsam and Jetsam and latest Hall of Fame entry, Doomsday for the Deceiver!
Mining Metal’s Past With Riding Easy Records’ Scrap Metal Compilation
November 4, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Preview two tracks from the upcoming Scrap Yard compilation of early metal rarities!
Flotsam and Jetsam – Doomsday for the Deceiver
October 28, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Flotsam and Jetsam’s Doomsday for the Deceiver debut is inducted into the Decibel Hall of Fame.
Full Album Stream: Ravenous Put their Power Metal Hubris on Display
October 21, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Stream the new album by Calgary-based power metallers, Ravenous!
Discovering and Digging Through Run For Your Fucking Life’s Archives
October 7, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out some new/old goods from these local San Diego legends!
Video Premiere: Chilling in the Meat Locker with Gorgatron’s “Frost Bitten Amputation”
September 23, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
The second video from the death metallers’ third album will make you have second thoughts about driving alone through the rural outskirts of Fargo.
Album Stream: Deformatory Infuse Death Metal with Sci-Fi Horror on Inversion of the Unseen Horizons
September 9, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the new album from Ottawa-based death metal duo, Deformatory!
EP and Video Premiere: Getting to the Point with Hardcore Supergroup Under Attack
August 26, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the new EP and video from Richmond hardcore heroes, Under Attack!
Streaming: Supreme Conception’s Empires of the Mind Blinds You with Science and Tech-Death
August 12, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Stream the new album from Supreme Conception for a galaxy brain lesson in tech-death.
Video Premiere: Lower Automation Bring the Hairy Noise with “Combover”
July 29, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out “Combover,” the new video from one of Chicago’s noisiest, Lower Automation!
Full Album Stream: Archangel A.D.’s Cassus Belli
July 15, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Sounding like a mix of Dave Mustaine’s veins circa-1985/’86, the floor of the Rochester, NY studio Metallica slept on whilst recording Kill ‘Em All and Lemmy’s liver from 1969 onwards, it’s Archangel A.D.
Full Album Stream: Touching the Bottom of the Sea and the Top of the Sky with Year of No Light’s Consolamentum
July 1, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Take a deep dive into the new album by post-metal monsters Year of No Light!
Video Premiere: Akaivel’s “Comrade” Hates Russian Serial Killers as Much as We Do
June 17, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out the latest video by French death groovers Akiavel!
Track Premiere: Putrascension Aren’t Just Killing Time with “The Ancient Spirit”
June 3, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Check out an advance track from the debut full-length by NJ black metallers Putrascension!
Album Review: Go Ahead and Die – ‘Go Ahead and Die’
June 1, 2021 Kevin Stewart-Panko
Max Cavalera and son Igor spend some quality father-son time together, along with Khemmis/Black Curse drummer Zach Coleman.