hard rock

Graveyard‘s Peace is our Best New Noise.

Five Finger Death Punch bassist Chris Kael ranks his top five extreme metal albums.

Stream a dark new song from hard rockers Crone.

Germany-based psych-doom purveyors Black Salvation blow minds on new album, Uncertainty is Bliss.

Stream a new song from D&D-themed 70’s metal outfit Gygax now.

Watch a new animated video from We Sell the Dead (In Flames, Firewind, Spiritual Beggars)!

Our resident birdbrains pecks on new titles from Anvil, Audrey Horne and Corrosion of Conformity.

Our Neill Jameson revisits Metallica’s controversial self-titled album.

Go Beyond the Realm of Light and embrace the Summoner album you’ll find there.

For their next trick, The Wizards show you their new music video.

Hyborian‘s first record will tell the story of an intergalactic traveller. You can hear the first part of the tale now. 

Earth Electric may be newcomers to the scene but they deliver quality hard rock.

The newly-expanded quartet rips into sludgy hard rock on “Disintegrate.” 

Tony Reed of Mos Generator counts down his favorite hard rock/heavy metal albums.

Here are the two main things you need to know about Kharkiv, Ukraine’s future sleaze rock superstars John Gält: 1. The band’s superb debut full-length Served Hot is a brash, hook-filled throwback to hard rock’s better days, marrying a bit of Motörhead aggro and Priest-y chug-soar-chug to an old school Mötley Crüe swagger n’ sneer….

Sure, ripping the annual Grammy nominations (and then later the inevitable head-scratching winner, see above) is like shooting fish in a barrel, but we must point out that to be so utterly clueless about a major part of the music business (metal) for so long really does take some effort. At this point we can’t…