February 23, 2020 — Hails to all you APESHIT goons, has it been a year already? How time flies when you’re blasting underground metal on a daily basis. We hit up the Winter NAMM show, and here are a few things we found interesting in 2020!
January 14, 2015 — Unlike everyone else, we waited until 2014 was actually over to recount our favorite albums. It’s been a great year for extreme music with a healthy amount of excellent releases.
March 12, 2014 — The month of January brings excitement to the City of Anaheim every year, and the NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) 2014 show is no exception!
January 13, 2014 — Members of MACHINE HEAD, METALLICA, SLAYER, TESTAMENT, EXODUS, DEATH ANGEL, FORBIDDEN, SPIRALARMS, SUICIDE SILENCE, and RUBBLE will perform classic songs by BLACK SABBATH as part of an all-star tribute band that will headline the Robb Flynn & Friends Benefit Concert on Friday, January 17, 2014 at the Oakland Metro Operahouse in Oakland, California.
October 6, 2011 — MACHINE HEAD guitarist/vocalist Robb Flynn joins Gary Holt of EXODUS, Alex Skolnick of TESTAMENT, and other Bay Area thrash metal luminaries contributing written material to the deluxe upcoming photo book Murder in the Front Row: Shots From the Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter, by Harald Oimoen and Brian Lew.
August 30, 2011 — [caption id=“attachment_6836” align=“aligncenter” width=“500” caption=“Oscar Martinez (credit: Sarah Vanessa Photography)”] [/caption] Metal t-shirts - we all own them and likely have amassed a lot of them in our closets as the years have gone by.
March 30, 2011 — CANNIBAL CORPSE guitarist Pat O’Brien will fill in for EXODUS’ Gary Holt when Holt leaves the SLAYER European tour to play with EXODUS at the Estadio Nacional in Santiago, Chile on April 4.
August 9, 2010 — After taking a breather in their respective other bands, namely THE HAUNTED, OPETH, and ARCH ENEMY, the members of WITCHERY offer Witchkrieg, the first album with vocalist Legion (ex-MARDUK) on board.
April 19, 2010 — Bay Area thrash veterans EXODUS will be playing two album release shows with HEATHEN in Los Angeles and San Francisco this June: Friday, June 11th - Los Angeles @ Key Club with HEATHEN, BONDED BY BLOOD, plus two local openers
October 14, 2009 — Sweden’s ARCH ENEMY have announced the Tyrants of Evil headlining tour of North America in support of their latest release, The Root of All Evil (which came out last week via Century Media Records).
August 18, 2009 — Ex-EXODUS vocalist Steve “Zetro” Souza and lead guitarist Glen Alvelais (FORBIDDEN/ex-TESTAMENT) has joined forces with ex-STRAPPING YOUNG LAD members Jed Simon, Byron Stroud and Gene Hoglan in a project known as TENET.
April 17, 2009 — In an interview with HardTimes, EXODUS guitarist Gary Holt and frontman Rob Dukes confirmed that they are working on their first official live DVD. Here’s what Holt had to say:
January 24, 2009 — The third annual California Metalfest, presented by Nederlander Concerts and Headbang For The Highway, is confirmed for March 28th at The Grove of Anaheim. Confirmed talent thus far includes CARCASS, EXODUS, SUFFOCATION, THE FACELESS, WHITECHAPEL, SAMAEL, ARSIS, DECREPIT BIRTH, VEIL OF MAYA, PSYCROPTIC, and others to be announced in the coming weeks.
December 11, 2008 — With Hordes of Chaos (the follow-up to 2003’s ultra-successful Enemy of God), KREATOR delivers ten tracks of pure unadulterated thrash metal like only the true masters can.
January 2, 2008 — It’s been a grossly successful 2007 for APESHIT, and though we find it hard pressed to make that same general claim for metal in 2007, a handful of albums did manage to leave a strong impression on us.
November 8, 2007 — EXODUS needs no introduction. For nearly 27 years the band has stayed true to their cause of uncompromising, blistering metal. The Atrocity Exhibition (the band’s eight studio album) is no exception.
October 17, 2007 — The new EXODUS album, The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A, can be heard in its entirety through October 22nd here. PC Users: You will have to click on each individual track to hear them.
March 15, 2007 — EXODUS guitarist Gary Holt checks in with this breaking news from the EXODUS camp: “I’d like to take a moment here and welcome back Tom Hunting to EXODUS’ drum throne.
November 1, 2006 — UK metal band, BIOMECHANICAL, have posted guitar tablature for their most recent album, Empires of the Worlds. All tabs for the album (except for the track “Sibelius”) are available here in Guitar Pro 5 format: http://www.
September 1, 2006 — HATEBREED begins their Monsters of Mayhem Tour today in support of their new album, Supremacy. Special guests for the tour include THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, NAPALM DEATH, EXODUS, FIRST BLOOD, and DESPISED ICON.