Sessa's charming stage presence, irresistible Portuguese vocals, and the whole band's groovy sunshine energy made the entire room fall in love with the musicians from São Paulo.
Bach sounds like an absolute natural performing this material. While he lacks the New York brassiness of Dee Snider, the group's iconic original frontman, his own manic energy transfers well to the performance.
It was always more rough and violent, says Destruction vocalist and bassist Marcel Schmier Schirmer of Germany's initial approach to thrash. We never tried to be the best musicians we tried to write songs that punched hard. On English heavy metal albums, it was always the first song on the album and the first song on the second side of the vinyl that were the fastest tracks.
I was too embarrassed to sing in my apartment, he says on a video call. But my roommate at the time was dating the preacher's daughter, and had keys to the church across the street. In the dead of night, the madcap bassist and singer took his recording equipment to the empty church, set up on the podium, and first sang his anti-war song Too Many Puppies.
No, it doesn't come out in May. We're putting out our first song and video in May. The record is not coming out till September. We pushed it back a little bit. We just had to do a couple of other things to it. It's coming out in September, but the first song and video will be out in May.
Terror remain a veteran hardcore band that is deeply involved with the current hardcore scene, and every band opening this tour is a band that's shaping the future of hardcore as we speak: LIHC ass-kickers Pain of Truth, Baltimore's charismatic End It, and LA youth crew revivalists Start Today.
We wanna do two days in Aston Villa [in Birmingham] and then come to America. And we wanna hear from everyone where we should go in America. And also we've gotta find a lot of young, new talent, because that's what [Ozzy] would want. That's what Ozzfest was all about. That second stage, that was the incubator - that's where so many [bands] came out of.
Master of Puppets is one of the few "perfect" albums in rock history (in other words ... all killer, no filler), and arguably the greatest thrash metal LP ever recorded. Tragically, though, it would prove to be the last Metallica album to feature the legendary Cliff Burton on bass.
Exodus with Rob Dukes is a whole 'nother beast. "3111" marks the vocalist's return to the fold after last appearing on an album in 2010, and what a return it is. On a song that's about narco killings in Juarez, Dukes gives a sufficiently menacing performance that's startlingly unhinged. The other members of Exodus said Dukes gave "the performance of his life" on the band's upcoming album
Sepultura have been making their way through a very long farewell since 2024 and now they've announced a 2026 trek that they say will be their final North American tour. They'll be joined by a pretty incredible batch of bands for this, including thrash legends Exodus, metallic hardcore veterans Biohazard (who are fresh off making a big comeback with last year's great Divided We Fall), and new-school death-metallers Tribal Gaze.
Bass Magazine celebrated all things bass at their annual awards on Thursday night (1/23), which happened at The Observatory in Santa Ana. Les Claypool was one of the evening's honorees, and he performed with Primus, who had a few special guests on hand for the occasion. They brought out Green Day's Mike Dirnt and Tool's Justin Chancellor for "Too Many Puppies," Metallica's Robert Trujillo for "My Name is Mud," and Marcus Miller for "Tommy the Cat." Watch attendee-taken video below.
There isn't one songwriter, and so the flavour of the band is always going to change, says Dave Vanian, reflecting on 50 years of the group of which he has been the sole constant member, the Damned. Captain Sensible is a great fan of syrupy pop music and prog and glam rock. So his writing is very poppy, melodic and quite wonderful.
The trek celebrates Five Finger Death Punch's 20th anniversary, and the veteran band will be allocating a portion of ticket sale proceeds to support high-performance programs for US athletes as they prepare for international competition, including the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic and Paralympic Games. Specifically, founding guitarist Zoltan Bathory has selected USA Judo, the National Governing Body for Judo in the US, as his beneficiary, while vocalist Ivan Moody will direct his contribution to the USA Cycling BMX Racing and BMX Freestyle teams.
Saturday, July 18 is headlined by Iggy Pop, with Otoboke Beaver, Scowl, The Spits, The Fadeaways, and Primitive Ring rounding out the bill. Sunday, July 19 is headlined by Bikini Kill and also has The Return of Jackie and Judy (aka Sleater-Kinney & Fred Armisen's Ramones tribute band), The Dead Milkmen, Frankie & The Witch Fingers, Frightwig, and Las Nubes.
