white widows pact

This past year’s been a good one for me as far as music writing goes. Following the early 2015 demise of a site I wrote for with some friends, I wormed my way into regular contributor gigs at three online metal blogs/pubs, all of which I was already a fan. It’s been a good year for metal, too. I’m not gonna lie and say 2015 blew my dick off the way 2014 did… because it just didn’t. But that’s not to say I didn’t hear some killer new shit this year, as well as find out about a handful of new, promising acts with which I wasn’t yet familiar. Continue reading →

Friday at last. Good lord, it’ll be nice to get out of the office. Let’s get right to that. Here’s what we missed today:

Apparently this is a thing people care about? Or maybe Metal Injection just needed some clickbait. I dunno. Regardless, Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares accused Meshuggah, Korn and Coal Chamber of ripping off the band’s riffs. Whatever.
Iron Maiden are set to premiere their new song, “Speed of Light,” next week. This is one of those Harris-free compositions I was so excited about when they announced the thing. But despite what Bram Teitelman says, the album’s more than a week away. September 4, big guy.
Guys. GUYS. It’s okay. Rush may not actually be going away forever.
Hey, look at that, it’s another new Myrkur track! We’re only two weeks away from the release of M, but that didn’t stop Amalie Bruun from sharing “Mordet” with the world.
And finally, here’s a new song from White Widows Pact: