Armored Saint

Plus: Guns N’ Roses, Seth Herzog’s SWEET, Sick New World 2024, Jorja Smith, Zach Bryan, and more tour and festival news.

PLus: Wavves / Cloud Nothings, Big Boi, Balance & Composure, Love and Rockets, Dethklok / Babymetal, Miya Folick, Superchunk, Yo La Tengo, The Mountain Goats, and more tour and festival news.

Head to our store to grab them while they last, along with many other records by these bands and many others.

The virtual metal fest also added members of Megadeth, Samhain, Repulsion, Vio-lence, The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Hatebreed, Municipal Waste, Testament, and much more.

Megadeth bassist and co-founder David Ellefson has launched the “School’s Out” initiative, to provide music lessons and mentoring via Skype from rock and metal musicians to kids who can’t participate in school activities because of coronavirus restrictions.

The Crowbar frontman, Down member, and solo artist made us a self-isolation playlist with some of his favorite classic metal and hard rock songs, track-by-track commentary included…

Anthrax, Testament, Armored Saint, Corrosion Of Conformity, DevilDriver, John 5, Doro, Beasto Blanco, Metal Church, and “heavy metal mariachi band” Metalachi will set sail on Megadeth’s inaugural “Megacruise” festival at sea.

Mercury passed away from complications of AIDS a quarter century ago tomorrow. Since then, it’s been too easy for the metal community to forget the role he played in the music we love. In honor of Mercury’s passing, we reached out several metal musicians to explain, in their own words, the continuing importance of Queen.

Tickets for David Byrne‘s ‘Contemporary Color’ show at Barclays Center with Nelly Furtado, How to Dress Well, Dev Hynes, Kelis, St. Vincent, tUnE-yArDs and Nico Muhly + Ira Glass go on sale today at 1…