The Aquarian

Five men stand in front of a church. They are all wearing black – t-shirts, sweatshirts, and jackets. None are smiling the camera, and all of them having tattoos. There are trees in the background have yellow red leaves, indicating the season the photo was taken being fall. There are scratches on the photo to make it look old.

March 19, 2025 0

Death metal, by definition, is music that is distorted and aggressive in its sound. On this new Whitechapel album, the...

Cradle of Filth - The Screaming of the Valkyries (Album Art)

Cradle of Filth Roar Back With More Macabre Metal Mayhem

Vinny Cecolini

Albums

March 17, 2025 0

Lead demon Dani Filth and his current band of miscreants are back with The Screaming of the Valkyries, Cradle of...

Kerry King: Best in Show in NYC

Arts Weekly

Photo Galleries

February 12, 2025 0

The heavy metal party to end all heavy metal parties rolled into town last week – and we were there....

Progressive Metal Icons Dream Theater Are Reborn on Their Dark, Surreal New Album

Vinny Cecolini

Albums

February 12, 2025 1

A tour de force! Mind blowing! Insert your favorite cliché here, because they all apply. Dream Theater’s Parasomnia is not only the...

Move Over Metal Monday – Marty Friedman Enacted Metal Tuesdays in NYC

Arts Weekly

Photo Galleries

February 7, 2025 0

About a week before Marty Friedman took the stage at The Loft at City Winery on February 4, he sat...

An Unveiled Marty Friedman Returns

Debra Kate Schafer

Buzz

February 3, 2025 0

Hailing from Japan, by-way-of-Maryland, Marty Friedman is set to arrive in the Big Apple on February 4 to perform at...

Iron Maiden – The ‘Future Past’ Was Alive in New Jersey

Arts Weekly

Photo Galleries

November 11, 2024 0

Happy National Metal Day, everyone. Here’s photographic evidence of Iron Maiden and The Hu tearing a bigger hole in the...

Iron Maiden at Prudential Center / November 9, 2024

Rebecca Terán

Concerts

November 11, 2024 0

Many will remember this weekend for destructive wildfires in New York and New Jersey, but the smokey atmosphere did not stop...

Minutes Unsettled: ‘A Three Person Village’

Valentino Petrarca

Buzz

September 2, 2024 0

Nothing screams ‘Labor Day’ like heavy metal, right? There have been a few rumblings in the local Rhode Island scene about...

Have You Heard That (Heavy Metal Music) Podcast?

Sherry Thomas

Columns

August 26, 2024 0

In the summer of 1986, I was driving around town with my mom and sister. I clearly remember the first...

Features

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Featured

The Allman Betts Band—Keep On Growing

Reviews

Night One of The Brothers’ ‘Mountain Jam’ & More at Madison Square Garden / April 15, 2025

Mum’s the Word with Mumford & Sons at Brooklyn Paramount / March 26, 2025

HERstory Rocks at the Parkside Lounge – A Decade of NYC Women Rock

Featured

HOT ROCKS: New Releases from Green Day, Stone Temple Pilots, Liam Gallagher, DIO, and Sepultura

Columns

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Rant ‘N’ Roll: Five Discoveries

On The Record: Nighthawk, Smoking Popes, the Seldom Scene, Maria Manousaki, Grey DeLisle, & Johnny Rawls

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Queued Up: Exploring the World of Bong Joon-Ho (‘Parasite’), plus ‘Doctor Sleep,’ ‘The Siren,’ ‘Scandalous,’ ‘Untouchable,’ and more.

Live Events

Excellent Live Music Choices in NYC This Week

Spotlight: Dark Force Fest to Bring Goth, Industrial, & Post-Punk to Parsippany

Spotlight: WPU’s Spring Jazz Room Series

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Phish’s Mike Gordon & Jon Fishman Perform at Bernie Sanders Super Tuesday Rally

An Interview With Whitechapel on Their ‘Sequel’

Cradle of Filth Roar Back With More Macabre Metal Mayhem

Kerry King: Best in Show in NYC

Progressive Metal Icons Dream Theater Are Reborn on Their Dark, Surreal New Album

Move Over Metal Monday – Marty Friedman Enacted Metal Tuesdays in NYC

An Unveiled Marty Friedman Returns

Iron Maiden – The ‘Future Past’ Was Alive in New Jersey

Iron Maiden at Prudential Center / November 9, 2024

Minutes Unsettled: ‘A Three Person Village’

Have You Heard That (Heavy Metal Music) Podcast?

#THROWBACK: Peter Frampton, October 27, 1976

Excellent Live Music Choices in NYC This Week

Spotlight: Dark Force Fest to Bring Goth, Industrial, & Post-Punk to Parsippany

Spotlight: WPU’s Spring Jazz Room Series

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