Frank Bello has been the bass guitarist on every Anthrax album since 1984, aside from a very brief departure to join fellow New York noise merchants Helmet in 2005, each evolution of the band since then has...

There will only ever be one Queen, Prince has exited this mortal coil and its unlikely music fans will ever agree on just who the Princess title belongs to (for me there is only one, hip hop...

Emperor. The name says it all. Black metal royalty. The undisputed heavyweight champions of the Scandinavian movement that continues to inspire musicians whose craft is dedicated to the left-hand path. Vegard Tveitan ply’s his trade under the...

Watain… black metal elite! Fearsome Scandinavians… peddling fire, impaled animal heads, tridents and spiked wristbands. Brutally uncompromising black metal inspired by the great Belial himself. Yep, they’re all that! To many fans of the blackened musical arts,...

Michel ‘Away’ Langevin (Voivod) There are few bands across all genres of rock, punk and metal that command the reverence and respect that French-Canadian outfit Voivod receive. From their inception in Jonquière, Quebec in 1982 to the...

Josh Rand – Stone Sour Stone Sour is best known as the band featuring the vocal talents of Corey Taylor (Slipknot). Up until recently the outfit also featured Slipknot guitarist Jim Root leading many to believe the...

Joey Jordison – Sinsaenum As the dying embers of the 20th century flickered and made way for the new millennium, there was one band that captivated the attention of the resurgent metal audience more than most. It’s fair...

Trevor Strnad – The Black Dahlia Murder Touring Australia in September with Belgium’s splatter/ grind masters Aborted, Trevor Strnad from The Black Dahlia Murder shares some thoughts ahead of the shows. As is the norm for most...

When it was announced in 2011 that ex-Hate Eternal percussionist Tim ‘The Missile’ Yeung had replaced Pete ‘The Feet’ Sandoval in Morbid Angel, indefinitely, many fans were caught off guard by the exit of one of heavy...

Is The Passage of Existence an album that offers Monstrosity the opportunity to break out from the shadows of their Floridian death metal contemporaries? Monstrosity is often mentioned as an influential pillar in the revered Floridian movement...