Muse will promote their upcoming eighth studio album, Simulation Theory, with a massive world tour in 2019. Their North American arena leg launches February 22nd in Houston, Texas and wraps April 10th in Boston, Massachusetts, followed by a run of European and U.K. dates running throughout May, June and July. Muse 2019 Tour Dates February […]
Category: Active Rock
Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ gets a Heavy Metal Mariachi Cover
Queen is one of the greatest, most popular bands in the history of the world because their music has proved timeless and universal. Their music transcends generations and cultures, and it also transcends genres. We’re not talking about how their own discography covers a number of musical style, we mean their music still rocks even […]
Slipknot’s Fans reinforce that Metal will never Die
Slipknot and Imagine Dragons released new songs yesterday. Although both bands are undeniably massive in terms of reach and fanbases, it was obvious that the long-awaited return of Slipknot overshadowed a new song from Imagine Dragons – and now we have numbers to prove it. The music video for Slipknot’s “All Out Life” is currently […]
Psychologists are trying to figure out why people like death metal
Violence among teens is typically blamed on video games or metal music. Fretting parents assumed that if you listened to music with aggressively violent lyrics you would inevitably act aggressively violent. Over the years, numerous studies have proven this thinking to be flawed. But, recently, psychologist William Forde Thompson has begun to question why people […]
The Nightmare Before Christmas gets a Heavy Metal Cover
The Nightmare Before Christmas may be about a terrifying Pumpkin King who lives in a realm filled with horrible creatures, but between its lovable characters and catchy musical numbers the iconic holiday classic doesn’t frighten us. It’s not exactly heavy on the scares, you know? But it would be absolutely horrifying if you changed the […]
High On Fire Cancel Tour Due to Medical Emergency
Bay Area metal rockers High On Fire were expected to head out on the road this fall for the “Speed of the Wizard” tour, alongside other metal bands Municipal Waste, Toxic Holocaust, and Haunt. However, due to a medical issue resulting in frontman Matt Pike having to get his toe partially amputated, the band has […]
We Came As Romans Remember Kyle Pavone at Benefit Concert
We Came As Romans celebrated their late singer Kyle Pavone with an emotional all-star concert on Sunday (Oct. 28) in their home town of Detroit, MI, benefiting the Kyle Pavone Foundation recently established up by the singer’s family. “Kyle’s favorite thing about music was how it brought people together,” WCAR’s other vocalist, Dave Stephens, told the crowd […]
Future Grammy Award Shows Scheduled!
Just so you can book your flights to Los Angeles for the Grammys in Advance, The Recording Academy™ and CBS have generously announced the dates for Music’s Biggest Night® in 2020 and 2021 — The 62nd Annual Grammy Awards® will air on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, and The 63rd Annual Grammy Awards will air on […]
New Audioslave Song to be Released?
Tom Morello says there will be unheard music from Audioslave released at some point in the future, though the guitarist cautioned that there isn’t a lot of it in the vaults. “The question is: ‘Is there a lot of unreleased Audioslave material?’ There’s not a lot, but there is unreleased Audioslave material which is pretty […]
Disturbed Frontman says they won’t Tour like they used to
Although Disturbed just announced a massive worldwide tour for 2019, frontman David Draiman says the band will be touring less frequently in the future. Disturbed singer’s latest comments come as a surprise to fans and critics alike. But the musician explains that the group’s touring circumstances won’t quite be the same going forward. Drainman told Loudwire, […]