Tag: metal
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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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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,”…
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Lorna Shore’s ‘I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me’ May Have Just Claimed Metal’s Album of the Year
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Lorna Shore have never been a band content to simply exist within the boundaries of genre. Since their earliest recordings, they’ve operated like sonic alchemists, transforming deathcore’s raw aggression into something both calculated and apocalyptic. Their forthcoming album, I Feel The Everblack Festering…
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Soulfly Announce New Album “CHAMA” — Reveal Killer First Single “Storm the Gates”
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Not that Soulfly ever disappeared, but their presence in 2025 feels reinvigorated with the release of “Storm the Gates,” the thunderous first single from their upcoming album CHAMA, due out October 24th via Nuclear Blast. Aptly named, the track barrels forward with the…
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Cradle of Filth Implodes: Zoë Federoff-Šmerda and Marek “Ashok” Quit, Citing Abusive Management, Toxic Touring Reality and Brutal Truth Behind the Scenes
Ryan Murray | Co-Owner | Chief Editor | Contributor | Photographer r.m.music84@gmail.com Keyboardist Zoe and guitarist Ashok exit amid toxic touring conditions; Zoe reveals miscarriage, alleged financial exploitation, and warns future members to “READ THE CONTRACT.” Cradle of Filth’s Screaming of the Americas tour has erupted into chaos. First came the shock of keyboardist and…
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