Photos: The Darkness, Live in Los Angeles
“Gimme a D! Gimme an ’Arkness’!” That’s how frontman Justin Hawkins greeted the packed-to-the-tits, way-beyond-sold-out crowd on Sunday night, February 19,at the House of Blues in Los Angeles....
View ArticleReview: Royal Thunder – CVI
With their debut full-length, Atlanta rock quadrangle Royal Thunder deliver on the unlikely promise offered by their self-titled 2010 EP: deep Sabbathian grooves with a distinct Southern twang fronted...
View ArticleReview: The Melvins – Freak Puke
Leave it to the Melvins to rearrange their lineup again—temporarily, this time—for the sake of weirdness. On Freak Puke, vocalist-guitarist King Buzzo and drummer Dale Crover team up with Mr. Bungle...
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Interview: Director Kat Candler on Her Sundance-Selected Short Film, Black Metal
Interview by J. Bennett The 2013 edition of the annual Sundance Film Festival, which is going down in Park City, Utah, starting on Thursday, will be extra grim and frostbitten this year with the...
View ArticleReview: Belphegor — Conjuring The Dead
Furious. Relentless. Punishing. These are the adjectives that come to mind as Belphegor’s 10th album blasts through the speakers. It’s the band’s first since vocalist-guitarist Helmuth contracted a...
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Interview: Converge’s Jake Bannon on Legendary ‘Jane Doe’ Album Artwork
It seems like you can’t go to a metal, hardcore, or metalcore show these days without spilling your drink on her. Her hooded eyelids and high cheekbones are emblazoned on T-shirts, hoodies, and...
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Interview: Slash Talks Slasher Films and His Next Horror Movie
Slash is a busy guy. Not only does he have a new album featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators, ‘World on Fire,’ coming out September 15, but the former Guns N’ Roses guitarist also runs his own...
View ArticleReview: Iron Reagan — The Tyranny of Will
In just two years of existence, Richmond crossover punks Iron Reagan have cranked out two EPs and two albums for a grand total of over 60 songs. Granted, most of them are only about a minute long, but...
View ArticleReview: At the Gates — At War with Reality
Nearly 20 years after the release of their melodic death-metal masterpiece, ‘Slaughter of the Soul,’ At the Gates delivered the rip-roaring comeback album they swore they’d never make. Exploding with...
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Vocalist Kristen May Responds to Criticism That She’s “Not Christian Enough”...
[futureusgallerycaption id="attachment_69346" align="alignleft" width="400"] Flyleaf’s James Culpepper, Jared Hartmann, Sameer Bhattacharya, Pat Seals and Kristen May (photo by Travis Shinn) When...
View ArticleReview: Lord Dying — Poisoned Altars
Fusing Crowbar’s booming guitar tone and gruff vocal delivery with High on Fire’s relentless chug and the occasional Pantera groove, Oregon brain-blasters Lord Dying deliver a severe riff thunderstorm...
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Interview: Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix Talks New Album, Sobriety, and Working...
The Papa Roach tour bus has just rolled into San Antonio, where the band will play a festival at the Sunken Gardens Amphitheater alongside the likes of Buckcherry, Saliva, and Alter Bridge. Head...
View ArticleReview: Liturgy – The Ark Work
With 2011’s ‘Aesthetica’—and vocalist-guitarist Hunter Hunt-Hendrix’s accompanying manifesto—Brooklyn black metal experimentalists Liturgy instantly became the most polarizing band in the genre. While...
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Interview: Nightwish’s Floor Jansen Talks Joining Band
The following article is an excerpt from Revolver’s April/May 2015 issue. by J. Bennett Floor Jansen was at home in the Netherlands on a Saturday morning in September of 2012 when she got the call....
View ArticleReview: Paradise Lost – The Plague Within
Most bands wilt long before they near the 30-year mark. Not so for British doom overlords Paradise Lost. Their fourteenth album, ‘The Plague Within,’ sees multifaceted vocalist Nick Holmes and his crew...
View ArticleReview: Fight Amp – Constantly Off
Philly noise-rock trio Fight Amp have stocked up on all the finest Amphetamine Reptile titles—The Melvins, Unsane, Jesus Lizard, etc.—and studied them thoroughly. No maniacal drum nuance, deep bass...
View ArticleReview: Gorgoroth – Instinctus Bestialis
Returning with their first album of new material in six years, Gorgoroth mastermind Infernus and his devil-worshipping crew deliver a set of black metal bangers that would do Lucifer proud. Infernus...
View ArticleReview: Author & Punisher – Melk En Honing
One-man industrial band Author & Punisher is the work of Tristan Shone, an innovative mechanical engineer who dons his own custom-built aluminum-and-steel sound- generating machines to create a...
View ArticleReview: Soulfly – Archangel
The opener on Soulfly’s tenth album is called “We Sold Our Souls to Metal,” and it’s hard to argue the claim: Soulfly frontman Max Cavalera has been bleeding extremity since co-founding Sepultura in...
View ArticleReview: Myrkur – M
Following up her 2014 debut EP, Danish multi-instrumentalist Amalie Bruun (also of indie- pop darlings Ex Cops) enlisted Ulver mastermind Garm to produce her first full-length—and members of Norwegian...
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