Author: Music World

Admittedly, I didn’t know much – read: absolutely nothing – about the UK’s Wren until their handlers thrust the self-described “progressive sludge/noise rock” Londoners in my face with tantalizing comparisons to Neurosis, Old Man Gloom and Amenra. That, and with the crushing, colossal majesty and incendiary churn of their debut full-length, Auburn Rule, I was sold. Following in the leaden, work boot trudge of their Host and self-titled EPs and a split with a band called Irk, Auburn Rule is about the slow burn, chiselled dynamics and insidious swings between minimalism and “maximalism.” Today, we present a track called “Scour … Continue reading

METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich will dedicate this weekend’s episode of his Apple Music Beats 1 radio show “It’s Electric” to his fifteen favorite heavy metal and hard rock records of all time. The list, which he initially prepared for Rolling Stone magazine, covers a wide spectrum of styles, from the Satanic lyricism of MERCYFUL FATE‘s “Melissa” to the politically charged rap-metal sounds of RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE‘s “The Battle Of Los Angeles”. “For each artist that’s part of my ultimate metal or hard-rock albums, I went for what you would call the definitive moment in their catalogue,” Ulrich told Rolling … Continue reading

A new lyric video for the single “To The Lost” from metal outfit THE DEVIL’S BASTARDS can be seen below. The song comes off the band’s self-titled debut album, which is tentatively due this summer. The disc was produced by Kile Odell and Kris Norris with select songs co-produced by Drew Fulk (MOTIONLESS IN WHITE, MISS MAY I) and Jamie King (BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME). THE DEVIL’S BASTARDS‘ lineup includes former DARKEST HOUR guitarist Kris Norris, dual vocalists Justin Reich and Benjamin Earl, bassist John Ryan Flaherty, drummer Brian Lewis, and the band’s most recent addition, Alex Bois. While … Continue reading

U.K. tabloid the Daily Mail has published new photos of MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee and online video star Brittany Furlan kissing after an apparent date at Banzai Sushi in Calabasas, California on Wednesday night. The 54-year-old rocker is 24 years older than Furlan, who has 2.3 million Instagram followers and was the most followed female video star on Vine until November 2015. Furlan had 9.9 million followers on Vine and more than 4 billion loops on the online video site before the death of the platform that made her famous. She later tried her hand at acting but expressed … Continue reading

SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor recently visited a paralyzed fan in a San Diego hospital. On May 15, Aaron Foley was struck by a pickup truck, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. A huge fan of all of Taylor‘s projects, Foley had met the singer several times in the past, including at the video shoot for the recently released song “Fabuless”. With the help of a local radio station, Aaron‘s mother reached out to Taylor to set up a personal visit to her son. Much to Aaron‘s surprise, Taylor turned up at the hospital, rendering Foley speechless. … Continue reading

According to The Pulse Of Radio, late SOUNDGARDEN vocalist Chris Cornell will appear on a new album that features poems written by Johnny Cash set to music. The project is titled “Johnny Cash Forever Words: The Music” and is the creation of Cash‘s son John Carter Cash, who is also producing the set. The younger Cash published a book of his father’s previously unavailable poems last year, titled “Forever Words: The Unknown Poems”. News that Cornell had contributed to the project surfaced last week via country artist Jamey Johnson, who told the Kentucky Country Music blog: “John Carter has a … Continue reading