In partnership with Warner Bros. If you love music as much as we do at NME, you’ve probably spent a silly amount of time wondering what audio treats your fave artists might cook up in the studio together. Billie Eilish laying down vocal licks over Metallica? Absolutely. A solo-off betweenContinue Reading
What happens when you take the likes of Type O Negative guitarist Kenny Hickey and drummer Johnny Kelly and combine them with Crowbar’s frontman Kirk Windstein and ex-Crowbar bassist Todd Strange? It turns out you get a kick ass sludge metal tune. At least that’s what happened with the bandContinue Reading
German powerhouse Thulcandra are back with a new album, Hail the Abyss, out now via Napalm Records. It carries on their tradition of heavy and melodic metal with some well-placed prog and technical elements. Formed in 2003 by guitarist Steffen Kummerer, also of Obscura fame, and Jürgen Zintz, the band’sContinue Reading
W e’re only a few short minutes into a blazing Tuesday night set at Madison Square Garden (May 30), and it’s been made abundantly clear that Hayley Williams, the small yet colossal voice standing on top of all of Paramore’s music, has cornered the market on righteous rage. Wearing aContinue Reading
Josh Homme and the guys in Queens of the Stone Age are no strangers to the dark. Their music has always had a tinge of the macabre, the melancholy, the strange, that can be traced back all the way to their debut release back in 1998. Yet their most recentContinue Reading
It’s been roughly a month since we last heard from Empire State Bastard, the extreme metal brainchild of Biffy Clyro’s Simon Neil and Mike Vennart, but they’re back and they’ve returned with details on their debut release, Rivers of Heresy. Having only recently signed to Roadrunner Records after recruiting ex-SlayerContinue Reading
Although ostensibly in line with the atmospheric black metal scene, Botanist constantly rejects convention. The San Francisco project’s entire concept centers on the use of Hammered Dulcimers instead of guitars. This unorthodox instrumentation has led Botanist’s discography down many interesting rabbit-holes—apparently only getting accepted into the Metal Archives database becauseContinue Reading
Back in February, iconic rock band Guns N’ Roses announced that they’d be embarking on a world tour this year, with everything expected to kick off next month in Tel Aviv, Israel. Though a number of their European stops are based on the summer festival circuit, the North American datesContinue Reading
They may not have released a new studio effort since 2010 and they may not have announced a new album just yet, but Dååth have put out some new music lately. Their latest release, “Purified By Vengeance,” is a heavy track featuring some heavy tones and killer contributions from MickContinue Reading
Quentin Tarantino has admitted that he doesn’t want the lead role of his new film, The Movie Critic, to be played by a British actor. In a new interview with Deadline, the Pulp Fiction director expressed the view that too many American characters are being portrayed by UK stars, andContinue Reading
