Dream Theater

Plus: Tower of Power, Vouna, Corrosion of Conformity/Crowbar/Weedeater/etc, and more tour news.

Last year, Rolling Stone published a list of the 40 greatest punk albums of all time, and today, they ranked the 100 greatest metal albums of all time. The list is all over the metal spectrum, from black and death to hair and nu…

Refused refusing to keep the money they just earned greeting fans on a recent tour.

As always, there’s a ton of metal, hardcore, and more heavy music happening in NYC. We don’t get a chance to post about all of it, so here’s a roundup of some recently announced stuff we haven’t tackled yet: German prog-metal band The Ocean are coming over the US for some shows with prog-doom band Intronaut, and No…

words and After packing the cavernous Best Buy Theater in Times Square with the most metal heads per square foot in the world probably on September 17, heavy metal supergroup Metal Allegiance surprised the metal world by adding a last minute show on Friday September 18 at the mega tiny Saint Vitus Bar in Greenpoint, Brooklyn…

After running at full throttle all fall, the heavy music world began to slow down this week in anticipation of the holiday season. Still, there was plenty to talk about, and here’s what you may have missed: Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead did an extremely entertaining interview with the New York Times…

“Last night at MSG — in between hopping around the stage like an eager So You Think You Can Dance contestant and sharing the spotlight with a ten-foot, ax-shredding demon creature — Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson demonstrated that not even front men for legendary British metal bands were able to avoid The Decision…

Bruce Dickinson shows his patriotism (more by Hardcore Shutterbug) Iron Maiden are back on the road for a string of US dates in support of The Final Frontier, their new LP due in “late summer”…

Opeth live at Ruisrock 2008 (jsantala) You thought Metal Masters was good? What about Neurosis / Mastodon / A Storm Of Light? Chew on this…

“If you don’t like the Scorpions, get the fuck outta here” Mikael Åkerfeldt made clear where he drew the line during the break between songs at night one (May 21) of Opeth‘s two night stay at Terminal 5 – part of the “Progressive Nation” tour…