Pollstar has revealed its list of The Most Popular Touring Artists of the Millennium, covering ticket sales from January 1, 2001 through the end of 2025 — basically the entire time most of us have been alive, depressed, or stuck in a merch line. And surprise: Metallica, Bon Jovi, Guns […]
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Former Dogma Members Re-Emerge As VindictA, Drop New Single “The Face Of The Clown” — Yes, There’s Drama
Sometimes new bands form because friends want to jam. Sometimes they form because the universe aligns. And sometimes — like in the case of VindictA — they form because everything around them exploded like a piñata stuffed with legal papers and bad management. The Setup: A Band With Talent… and […]
The Crown announce 2026 farewell tour
Swedish Death metal veterans The Crown have announced that 2026 will mark the official end of their 35-year career. Alongside unveiling their No Tomorrow – Farewell 2026 tour, the band confirmed they are closing the chapter for good, with 2024’s Crown of Thorns standing as their final album. After more […]
NEW MISERABLE EXPERIENCE (Feat. Members Of RIVERS OF NIHIL, EX-REVOCATION, ROSETTA) Announce New Album ‘Gild The Lily’
Philadelphia’s favorite collective of overachievers, New Miserable Experience, have announced their new album Gild the Lily, arriving January 23 via Pelagic Records. Yes, the band with a lineup so stacked it reads like a festival poster—featuring members of Rivers of Nihil, ex-Revocation, Rosetta, and Model Prisoner—is officially back to make […]
Vitriol Implodes Mid-Tour as Three Members Flee, Leaving Kyle Rasmussen at a Vermont Gas Station Like a Lost Tourist With a Guitar
In what may go down as one of the most uniquely American breakups in extreme metal history, VITRIOL’s freshly assembled touring lineup has reportedly nuked itself mid-route, abandoning sole founding member Kyle Rasmussen at a gas station in Vermont — a state best known for maple syrup, horror-movie fog, and […]
ARCH ENEMY Splits With Alissa White-Gluz After 11 Years — Farewell Messages Hint at Tension as Singer Immediately Launches Solo Era
In a development that surprised almost no one paying attention to the increasingly frosty tone of recent band communications, ARCH ENEMY has officially parted ways with vocalist Alissa White-Gluz after more than a decade together. The band offered no explanation for the split, sticking to a notably minimal, “corporate-zen” statement […]
Murder for Satan: A Black Metal Crime Story from Thailand
Norwegian black-metal legends have been recycled so many times they’ve become a cultural commodity. Netflix makes teen drama-horrors about them, academic anthologies dissect the “bloody dawn,” and Euronymous–Varg stories circulate like campfire tales. They’ve turned mythic, sanitized by distance and repetition. Varg’s long out, Mayhem have become elder statesmen, and […]
“Merch Cuts Are Killing Touring — And Fans Are Paying the Price
The conversation blew up again this week after Make Them Suffer posted that, due to venue policy and commission structures, they would be selling all merch from a pop-up outside the Royal Oak Theatre in Detroit — next to their bandwagon. A simple message, but it triggered the same debate […]
New Study Finds 70% of People Prefer Live Music to Sex — the Other 30% Clearly Haven’t Seen Iron Maiden Live
Forget Tinder — the real love story of our generation is between fans and live music. According to a massive new survey from Live Nation (a.k.a. the planet’s biggest gig dealer), 70 per cent of people would rather go to a concert than have sex. Yes, you read that right: […]
Bay Area Thrash Titans SADUS Drop New Video for “Pain”
Bay Area thrash veterans SADUS have dropped a brand-new music video for their track “Pain,” taken from their long-awaited comeback album The Shadow Inside. Released in November 2023 via Nuclear Blast Records, the record marked the band’s first studio effort in 16 years and a powerful return to their roots. […]