Short answer: Mastodon is a metal band. Long answer: Mastodon is a Grammy-nominated, heavy, progressive quartet weaned on a unique and complex mix of stoner rock, prog-rock, grunge, hard rock, and heavy metal. The Hotlanta quartet shuns the textbook metal clichés of disingenuous evil and excess, and instead goes for an epic, foreboding, dynamic and […]
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Red, white, and GWAR
Nothing is safe, nothing is sacred in the eyes of GWAR. For the last 30 years, this Richmond, Virginia-based metal band has eviscerated, sodomized, ejaculated, defecated, spewed, chewed, disemboweled, and destroyed social, political, and pop culture convention in a bloody, satirical display. It’s a troubled teen’s wet dream. It’s a comic book nightmare. It’s some […]
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Dark Nemesis rising
Though he generally comes off as a happy guy, for the last two decades or so, Rochester musician Eddie Nebula has spewed buckets of beautifully biographical vitriol. Wearing his bleeding black heart on his sleeve, Nebula has accosted the anger head on with punk energy, metal speed, and the jaded insight of a young man […]
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Viva Metalachi!
The name brings to mind two things, yet not necessarily in the order you would think. Metalachi, doesn’t take traditional mariachi music, plug it in and turn it up for maximum kerrang. No, rather the band takes classic metal songs and strips them down, interpreting them with traditional mariachi instruments. What remains in this mashed-up, […]
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Concert Review: From The Skies, Aggressive Betty at Montage
From The Skies was laying it down with a fierce brutality as I made my way into the Montage Music Hall Saturday night. I’m not the biggest metal fan — I do like it, though — but the sound fit my mood perfectly: cold and pissed. The music blasted out and up thick and angry […]
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Heatseeker
Let’s clear up a bit of confusion. In the hallowed halls of all things rock ‘n’ roll, big often gets confused with loud. Any band can be loud; just turn the sucker up. Plug in and peel out. The reality is that the bands we love aren’t just loud, they’re big. Rochester’s Heatseeker is big. […]
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MUSIC INTERVIEW: Love and Death
In its mid- to late 90’s prime, Bakersfield, California’s Korn helped forge the nu-metal genre by not only incorporating its heaviest and loudest aspects but also going outside — way outside — to untapped sources like hip-hop and electronic music. The band became huge and earned Grammy Awards in the process. At the very heart […]
