The band has made the song "Shudder Before the Beautiful" available for download, free, no strings attached! Now this is what I'm talking about. Nightwish can be counted on to have a killer opener on every...

The upcoming American tour for Nightwish's "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" tour has Delain and Sabaton, two headliners in their own right, as support. I've seen all three bands quite a few times on various...

Nightwish has just released the first song off of their new album set to release near the end of March. I would describe it as being very... Nightwishy. It's not turbo-speed, not completely slow, somewhere...

Finnish band Battle Beast has just released their third album, Unholy Savior. I first learned of Battle Beast from the song "The Band of the Hawk" off their first album, Steel. Throughout the first two...

So, my birthday was yesterday. It was announced that Origa died that day. Damn. Can't say I understand Russian but I always loved listening to her. I'm going to go listen to Inner Universe and Rise...

Drumcam of Arch Enemy's Daniel Earlandsson Came across this video by Sick Drummer Magazine a few days ago and thought I'd share it. The double-bass drum is the anchor of any metal band and it's fascinating...

I'll be honest, this one snuck past me til now. Babymetal and Dragonforce have collaborated to make "Road of Resistance." It has the trademark speed metal and sound of Dragonforce with the female vocals of...

Happy New Year. Let's do it again....

November 10th at the Regency Ballroom. Four metal bands out for some San Francisco blood. Tonight we see America's Starkill and Huntress opening for one of the godfathers of European thrash metal,...

So Within Temptation's US tour has come and gone but there's still more to see and hear. In about a week the band will be rereleasing their first two releases in the form of the album "Enter" and EP "The...