Category: heavy metal
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Battle Beast Ignite a Glorious New Dawn Through ‘Steelbound’

Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com When Battle Beast come charging, the ground shakes. You don’t listen to a Battle Beast record, you feel it in your bones — in the pulse of your heart, in the metallic roar of something too triumphant to stay caged. With their seventh…
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Edge of Paradise Transform “Requiem for a Dream” into a Cinematic Masterpiece — Reveal Stunning New Music Video

Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Some songs echo through you. This one consumes you. With their breathtaking reimagining of Clint Mansell’s “Requiem for a Dream” (the unforgettable Lux Aeterna theme), Edge of Paradise have unleashed not just a song — but a cinematic event. It’s a reinvention that…
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Tarja Begins Vocal Tracking for the Highly Anticipated Follow-Up to 2019’s ‘In The Raw’

Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com A new dawn rises over symphonic metal: Tarja Turunen has officially stepped into the studio to begin recording vocals for her next solo metal album. Shared via her Instagram reel earlier today, the Finnish soprano strides into the booth with a determined presence…
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Through Fire, Flames, and (Yes) Flying Chickens – DragonForce Tear Up Toad’s Place

Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com When DragonForce storms into town, it’s never just a concert—it’s an adrenaline-fueled spectacle that fuses blistering guitar work with sheer, unrelenting fun. Having covered them before at New York City’s Palladium Times Square, I walked into Toad’s Place in New Haven thinking I…
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Silverstein’s ‘Pink Moon’ Proves the Second Half Hits Hardest

Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Silverstein have always carried a restless hunger. Across two decades and countless reinventions, they’ve never been content to sit inside a neat box of “post-hardcore” or “emo veterans.” Instead, they’ve evolved in real time, their music reflecting both the anxieties and hopes of…
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Amy Lee, Poppy, and Courtney LaPlante Shatter the Internet as ‘End of You’ Breaks One Million Views in Just Over 24 Hours

Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com When Amy Lee (Evanescence), Poppy, and Courtney LaPlante (Spiritbox) announced a collaboration, it sounded almost unreal. A dream lineup of three of heavy music’s most commanding voices. But just yesterday, Sept. 4th, that dream became reality with the release of “End of You,”…