Valkyrie

When you hit the road in late December, is that a light atmosphere, time to enjoy the holidays, or is that just business as usual? : I think everyone is in a bit of a festive mood then…

Relapse Records have released their annual sampler, which is available as a name-your-price download at bandcamp. As always, the label offers a diverse slate for metalheads (and rock fans), with popular bands like Torche and Windhand standing alongside truly brutal niche acts like Maruta and Primitive Man, classic rock revivalism in Christian Mistress and Royal Thunder, borderline-metal genre experiments like Pinkish Black and Zombi, and old standbys with some gas left in the tank Goblin Rebirth and Skinl……

Maryland stoner rock vets Clutch returned earlier this month with their eleventh album, Psychic Warfare, on Weathermaker Music. It includes the song “X-Ray Visions,” which they’ve got a video for, and you can watch that be…

Plenty of great metal, hardcore, and other heavy NYC shows are getting announced all the time. We don’t get a chance to write about all of them, so here’s a roundup of some of the recently-announced stuff coming up: ’70s proto-metal band Bang, who played their first-ever NYC show in 2014 and opened for Pentagram here later that year, will return to NYC again on May 10 at The Shop (234 Starr St in Bus…

Kerry King of Slayer (more by Caroline Harrison) Now that we’re in December’s not-terribly-icy-so-far clutches, things have finally begun to slow significantly on the heavy music front, but the newswire never goes cold…

The ever-fecund heavy music scene has produced yet another worthy band — Sinister Haze, a psych/doom act that shares guitarist/vocalist Brandon Marcy with the great doom act Cough, who released a killer split with fellow VAers Windhand earlier this year…

UPDATE: It’s true, and it’s called Orion Music & More Metallica @ Yankee Stadium in 2011 (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin) Metallica sent out a “Save the Date” on Friday…

Hull at The Studio at Webster Hall (more by Markus Shaffer) Now that they’re finished beating down The Studio at Webster Hall with their 100db riffs, Hull will headline Ace of Clubs TONIGHT (7/20) as the band teams up with Iron Tongue (featuring CT and Reid of Rwake), The Dirty Streets and Flaming Tusk…