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DIRTY DEEDS: AC/DC’s Phil Rudd Hits the Road Solo in 2017 for “Head Job”

The unmistakable thunder blasts of down-under drummer Phil Rudd powered twelveof AC/DC’s sixteenalbums. He anchoringthe group’s initial avalanche of hard rock classics from 1975 through 1983; the first half of that period is chronicled by bass-banging bandmate and tour roommate Mark Evans in DIRTY DEEDS: My Life Inside/Outside of AC/DC.Rudd left AC/DC for a decade, then returned in the mid-1990s for a twenty-year stint.

In 2017, the rough-hewnRudd will finally hit the road in support of his 2...

Sat 12/17, L.A.: Saccharine Trust Plays PAGANICONS at WE GOT POWER! Show

Los Angeles legends Saccharine Trust are set to perform their 1981 SST Records hallmark Pagan Icons release in its entirety, along with their 1981 SST single “A Christmas Cry.” The cerebral sermon goes down Saturday, December 17, at 6PM at Los Angeles’s vinyl-only haven Pop Obscure, 735 South Los Angeles Street in Downtown L.A.

The show is part of a series of events in conjunction with the WE GOT POWER! photo show currently installed at Pop Obscure, which includes nearly 100 of the hundreds o...

CITY BABY: Massive G.B.H. Clay Records Reissues Out This Week!

Restricted Release Records this weekreleases the first titles via its new Classic Music Series, including an avalanche of favorite titles from hardcore punk legendsG.B.H. Grab a copy of bassist Ross Lomas’s hilarious memoir CITY BABY: Surviving in Leather, Bristles, Studs, Punk Rock, and G.B.H., and stage dive into these criminally long-unavailable titles in single digipaks or special triple-CD jewel-case sets:

City Baby Attacked By Rats

The band’s debut album is considered a landmark in the...

Bloody Roots of Metal’s Ultra-Heavy Progressive Fringes on Sirius XM

BLOODY ROOTS OF METAL’S ULTRA-HEAVY PROGRESSIVE FRINGES
Week of December 3, 2016

Sat 12/3, 6PM ET
Sun 12/4, 1PM ET
Mon 12/5, 9AM ET
Tues 12/6, 4PM ET
Thurs 12/8, 9PM ET

Today’s show peers into a nuclear telescope to explorethe vast outer fringes of today’s crushing progressive metal pioneers. Emerging from various scenes including death metal, doom, and technical progressive metal, bands including Gorguts, Ahab, SubRosa, the Ocean, Cult of Luna, and Ne Obliviscaris summonmassive atmosphere an...

NYHC: Rolling Stone Mag on the Cro-Mags and Misfits’ Contributions to Sports Anthems

First off, a word from Reno hardcore legends 7 Seconds:

Now then, earlier this monthRolling Stoneran a piece titled “Cro-Mags, Misfits, Dropkick Murphys, and the New Era of Sports Stadium Anthems,”detailing the trendof punk songs being used to rally fans in stadiums all over the planet. For decades, rough-edged New York fans have been pumped by the Ramones’ “Blitzkrieg Bop” and massively known songs by Metallica and Nirvana, but 2016 might be the year jock punk broke:

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HEAVY METAL MOVIES: “We Are X” Plus New Unlocking the Truth and Twisted Sister Docs

Among the towering, unholy mountains of titles and genres covered in HEAVY METAL MOVIES: Guitar Barbarians, Mutant Bimbos, and Cult Zombies Amok in the 666 Most Ear- and Eye-Ripping Big Scream Films Ever!,by Mike “McBeardo” McPadden, are literally hundreds of documentaries dedicated to heavy metal’s mad makers, most majestic moments, and furiousfans.

Since Heavy Metal Movies first arrived, a cloven hoof-ful of new metal docs have arisen thatwarrant their own headbanging tribute. Here’s McBear...

A LONG ONE! New HEAVY METAL MOVIES Blu-ray Releases for November 2016

This month, as Krampus lurksand the Grinch practices stealing gifts, filmdom’s finest and most ferocious purveyors of Blu-ray brutality are busting out their hardest and heaviest releases. The Heavy Metal Movies quotient is high his year, especially in the quintessentially metal realm of the extreme horror cinema. Get ready to return—or experience for the first time—the glory of grindhouse gore and bong-passing VHS parties with this blood-soaked bounty of exquisitely remastered vintage splatt...

GRAVE Is the Swedish Death Metal Band of the Week

“Brilliant, original death metal from the island of Gotland,” writes Daniel Ekeroth about extreme pioneers Grave in his genre opus, Swedish Death Metal. “Their debut album, Into the Grave, remains one of the best Swedish death metal albums of all.”

That’s high praise, but is heavily earned by the still forward-charging metal force initially formed in 1988 by guitarist and vocalist Ola Lindstrom. As far back as 1984, according to multi-instrumentalist and sometimes singer Jörgen Sandström, ear...

Metallica’s New Music Video is a Trailer for an Upcoming Black Metal Biopic

The latest concept video from Metallica’s metaled-up new album Hardwired…to Self-Destructis basically a trailer for director Jonas Åkerlund’s upcoming biopic about Norway’s early-1990s black metal scene. The video presents actors miming a Hollywood version of a Mayhem show circa 1991, set to a mid-tempo, modern-day Metallica song. Parts of the scene areviewed through theperspective ofcamcorder-wieldingSam Coleman from Game of Thrones in therole of Jon “Metalion” Kristiansen.The video feels li...

MISERY OBSCURA: Watch Dave Lombardo’s “Green Hell” Misfits Soundcheck

Punk, metal, horror, and all other worthwhile aspects of life continue to flow from the Misfits reunion shows back in September. Pioneering ghouls Glenn Danzig, Jerry Only, and Doyle stormed Riot Fest stages in Denver and Chicago, backed on drums by ex-Slayer legend Dave Lombardo.

Since all closeup footage of Lombardo playing his drums is precious, and doubly since all Misfits songs are so catchy they can be recognized solely by the drum parts, we’re posting the above. We want to be able to...