Hembree & The Satan Sisters Featured In Ghost Cult Mag

 

Hembree & The Satan Sisters Featured In Ghost Cult Mag

Ghost Cult is pumped to share the full album stream from Atlanta Punk Rock Rebels in Hembree & The Satan Sisters! Tomorrow, September 20th, 2019 sees the release of their new album “F.Y.F.” via Rusty Knuckles Music. Formed by Zachery M. Hembree in December of 2017, he was a founding member of Nuclear Blast recording artist TORO. Hembree yearned to form a baddass, hard-rocking, catchy, punk band and has done just that in Hembree & The Satan Sisters! Throw those horns and jam this album right now! 

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Datura Release Lyric Video For The Song - Keeper Of The Light

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Datura - Keeper of The Light, from the album The Harrowing. Lyric video designed and edited by Justin Casey. Stay up to date with all things Datura on Facebook

Heavy Duty Hammer Forging Process Videos

Nothing feels quite as satisfying as watching hot metal get hammered into shape. Looking forward to getting our forge back up and running this fall and start back into making some knives.

The Gold Web Enlivens Chicago Glam Rock

The Gold Web is Brian Selke, aka Dr. Weed, from left; Max Perenchio, aka Silver Wizard; Rich Lombardo, aka Goldilox; and Jake Serek, aka St. Snake. (Courtesy of The Gold Web)

Art is more important than ever for Chicago musicians.

Just ask Max Perenchio of The Gold Web. The glam rock project may seem like a cultural throwback in a city filled with generic garage rock bands, but Perenchio said the group has greater cultural, social and political goals than its appearance might suggest.

The transition from traditional rock band to glam rock was a quick one for the group. After touring with classic glam rock band Kiss in a different band, Perenchio began incorporating costumes and other extravagant looks into his aesthetic, adopting a character (Silver Wizard) in the process. Other members of The Gold Web followed suit.

"It turned the whole band experience into a ritual where every single show, you're putting on 9-inch platforms and wigs and makeup," he said. "There's something about this energy where you can kind of be whoever you want to be, even if it's just for one night."

ANTiSEEN, "We're Number One" Album Review

Scumfeast Metal 666, recently reviewed ANTiSEEN's latest album, "We're Number One." 

Check out what they had to say below!

"What can You say?  Mighty Joe Young is gone.  It was devastating to the bands, his friends family & fans and most including myself. I could not imagine ANTiSEEN without Joe. At the same time after all these years I certainly could not imagine a world without ANTiSEEN. Joe was as unique as they come in rock n roll. His sound was as important to ANTiSEEN as Jeff Clayton's vocals. The two things that stayed consistent for 30 plus years as a band.  He was loved by the fans and a lot of other people.  RIP Joe. You are still missed. But Ya know. One of the things that makes ANTiSEEN who they are. They don't stop. they don't quit or give up. They continue doing what they do."

Hard, Harsh & Heavy Shows in North Carolina

This is a list of all heavy shows, and events, across North Carolina. The list spans from Wilmington to Asheville, and includes music ranging from punk to hardcore, metal to metalcore, grind to doom and goth to industrial.

We're hoping to bring more awareness to the scene, and share the events that are taking place across  the  our great state of North Carolina!

Please feel free to share and spread the word!

Jan 05 - Crank It Loud presents: Jesus Piece, Absolute Suffering, Vein / The DHP, Fayetteville

Jan 06 - Blind Path Booking presents: Polarity, To Live As Wolves, Vices & Vessels, Our Savior Remains, See Obsidian / The DHP, Fayetteville

Jan 07 - Primitive Ways presents: Chateau, Necroscythe, Bumfeeder, Basura / Slim’s Downtown, Raleigh

           - Winter Metalfest: Bone Shelter, Widow, Kinghitter, Elusory, Hayvyn / Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh

           - Wretched, Auxilia, SkinKage, Kairos, Gruzer, Black Ritual, Shadows Of Deceit / Amos’ Southend, Charlotte

           - Kiss the Curse, Take Heart, Break the Skyline, Through All This / The Maywood, Raleigh

Jan 09 - Blind Path Booking presents: Second Death, Landfall, Broadmoor, Neglected, TBA / The DHP, Fayetteville

Jan 10 - The Toasters, Whimpy Rutherford & The Cryptics / The Pour House, Raleigh

Jan 13 - Johnny ‘Cutt Promotions presents: Saint Diablo, Fall River Massacre, Attracting the Fall, TBA / The DHP, Fayetteville
           - Alter Blood, Baasthyrian, Rotten Obscene, KRVSADE / The Milstone, Charlotte

Jan 14 - Suppressive Fire (CD release show), Deathcrown, Dreaded, Noctomb / The Maywood, Raleigh
           - Johnny ‘Cutt Promotions presents: Kiss the Curse, Sixlight, Five Mile Radius / The DHP, Fayetteville

            - 5&10 Entertainment presents: Saint Diablo, TBA / The Wizard Saloon, Hickory

Jan 15 -Koffin Kats, Motorbilly / The Maywood, Raleigh

Jan 16 - Blind Path Booking presents: NIHIL, Shrine, Bloodforce, TBA / The DHP, Fayetteville

Jan 18 - Blind Path Booking presents: Earth Groans, Blight On Society, TBA / The DHP, Fayetteville

Jan 20 - Knightmare, Children of the Reptile, Avalon Steel / The Maywood, Raleigh

           - Johnny ‘Cutt Promotions presents ‘The Deformity Constellation’ tour: Cognitive, Artificial Brain, Death Of Uriah, TBA / The DHP, Fayetteville

           -Suppressive Fire, Nemesis, Dire Hatred, Greevace / The Station, Charlotte

Jan 21 - Jackyl (their last show at Amos), TBA / Amos Southend, Charlotte

           - The Fill Ins, The Body Bags, The Big Fandamily Band, Old Scratch / The Milstone, Charlotte

Jan 25 - Blind Path Booking presents: Regions, Lowpoints, Desolute, From Wrath To Ruins, Neglected / The DHP, Fayetteville

Jan 27 - Primitive Ways presents: Demon Eye, Toke, Bedowyn / Slims Downtown, Raleigh

            - Cat’s Cradle presents: Cold Cave, Drab Majasty / Motorco, Durham

            - Jucifer, Violent Life Violent Death, AuxilliA, Born Hollow / The Milstone, Charlotte

Jan 28 - Snake & The Plisskens, No Anger Control, Poison Anthem, Karbuncle / Kings Barcade, Raleigh

           - Primitive Ways presents: Rites To Sedition, Shrine, Valle Crucis, Arghast / Maywood, Raleigh

           - Solar Halos, S.E. Ward, GOWN / Local 506, Chapel Hill / Carrboro

           - Johnny ‘Cutt Promotions presents: Seasons After, Nowhere’s Home, Chaos By Candlelight, Solace Betrayal / The DHP, Fayetteville

Jan 29 - Deathcrown, Nemesis, KAVSADE, Violent Gods / The Milestone, Charlotte

Jan 30 - Regan Youth, Pleasures of the Ultraviolet, Dirty South Revolutionaries, No Anger Control / The Milestone, Charlotte

Shows - All Things Hard, Harsh & Heavy - North Carolina

This is a list of all heavy shows, and events, across North Carolina. The list spans from Wilmington to Asheville, and includes music ranging from punk to hardcore, metal to metalcore, grind to doom and goth to industrial. 

We're hoping to bring more awareness to the scene, and share the events that are taking place across  the  our great state of North Carolina!

Please feel free to share and spread the word! 

Dec 29 - Rotton, Baasthyrian, Throne Of Bolts, KRVSADE, / The Milestone, Charlotte

 
Dec 30 - New Year’s Eve Punk Rock pregame: Born Again Heathens, 49 / Short, Raw Dog / The Maywood, Raleigh

 
Dec 31 - New Year’s Eve Show: Datura, Arghast, Horseskull /The Maywood, Raleigh            

             - New Year’s Eve Show: AuxiliA, No Anger Control, Green Fiend, Kairos, No Power No      Crown, Violent Gods / The Milestone, Charlotte

 
Jan 02 - Primitive Ways presents: Shadows, Enemy of the State, Life Alert / Slim’s Downtown, Raleigh

 
Jan 05 - Crank It Loud presents: Jesus Piece, Absolute Suffering, Vein / The DHP, Fayetteville

 
Jan 06 - Blind Path Booking presents: Polarity, To Live As Wolves, Vices & Vessels, Our Savior Remains, See Obsidian / The DHP, Fayetteville

 
Jan 07 - Primitive Ways presents: Chateau, Necroscythe, Bumfeeder, Basura / Slim’s Downtown, Raleigh
           - Winter Metalfest: Bone Shelter, Widow, Kinghitter, Elusory, Hayvyn / Lincoln Theatre, Raleight
           - Wretched, Auxilia, SkinKage, Kairos, Gruzer, Black Ritual, Shadows Of Deceit /Amos’ Southend, Charlotte

 
Jan 09 - Blind Path Booking presents: Second Death, Landfall, Broadmoor, Neglected, TBA / The DHP, Fayetteville

 
Jan 10 - The Toasters, Whimpy Rutherford & The Cryptics / The Pour House, Raleigh

 
Jan 13 - Johnny ‘Cutt Promotions presents: Saint Diablo, Fall River Massacre, Attracting the Fall, TBA / The DHP, Fayetteville

Mike Patton forms Metal Supergroup with Dave Lombardo

Faith No More frontman Mike Patton, who has one of rock’s most versatile voices, said on Monday that he was forming a new metal supergroup with Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo.

Patton wrote on Facebook that the supergroup called Dead Cross will release an album next year.
The 48-year-old Patton has a vocal range of six octaves — one of the greatest of any living singer, even in opera.

Faith No More, with its hard-edged rock and elements of funk and hip-hop, was at the vanguard of the alternative music boom starting in the late 1980s and returned in 2015 with its first album in nearly two decades.
The Cuban-born Lombardo often figures on lists of metal’s top drummers. He is best known for Slayer, a macabre thrash metal band, and has also played with Suicidal Tendencies and Misfits.
Lombardo and Patton previously joined forces for another supergroup called Fantomas.

They will be joined in Dead Cross by guitarist Michael Crain and bassist and vocalist Justin Pearson, who have both played in Retox, a hard-core punk band from San Diego.

A Collision of Quilting and Rock Music

Faith Salie introduces us to the work of a music-loving artist on what you might call the FRINGE:

“I like this machine,” said quilter Ben Venom, “because once it gets going, I liken it to shooting a machine gun.  When it’s at full throttle, like R-R-R-R-R!”

Sit down with Venom in his studio in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, and it doesn’t take long to realize he isn’t quite like other quilters.

“There’s a right way, there’s a wrong way, and there’s the way I just decided to do it -- which is my way,” he said.

“You know, I’ll listen to music or try to watch movies, but ultimately the noise of the machine kind of drowns a lot out. Because my head’s right in it. So pretty much my world is right around here.”
His world is filled with arresting images on quilts.

“Every Tear Drop,” a quilt by by Ben Venom.

Shunned By Radio, Hard Rock Is Still Alive And Well In America

Two hard rock bands, one young and one old, walk into a bar. The bartender asks to see the older band’s ID. “Welcome,” she says. “I loved your music when I was a college student in the 90s.” The younger band hands the bartender its ID. “Sorry,” she says, fiddling with the knob on her FM radio, “you’re far too young to be in here. Go get a few radio hits and come back in a decade or two.”

Ghost BC, a.k.a. Ghost, one of the few metal bands with songs popular at both Pandora and hard rock stations.

Such is the dilemma for young hard rock and metal bands. Radio has all but turned its back on the hard rock and metal stars of tomorrow. It’s a shame. Radio has remained the most common source of music discovery, according to numerous surveys over the years. The old-fashioned format is tied with friends/family at 68 percent, according to Edison Research and Triton Digital. Where do fans of metal and hard rock go for new music? Not commercial radio. Metal, and its umbrella genre, hard rock, has become a format for the middle-aged listener. People wanting to find new, hard music will find what they’re looking for at Pandora.

But hard rock and metal do well at Pandora, a democratic platform that rewards songs for their listeners’ positive reactions, not the decisions of radio program directors. Metal, a sub-genre of the more popular rock category, is tied for 13th in monthly time spent listening and currently gets over 6 million unique listeners per month. Rock, which includes hard rock and other types of rock music, has the most monthly listening hours on Pandora, ranks 2nd in monthly time spent listening and gets 50 million unique listeners each month.

The numbers show the severity of hard rock radio’s problem. According to Nielsen BDS data, only 10.5 percent of hard/active rock stations’ playlists are current tracks while 82.9 percent are legacy/golden tracks and 6.6 percent are recurrents (“active rock” stations have an emphasis on hard rock, “recurrents” are former current songs that still get spins). For comparison, current songs are 85 percent of music played at both pop and rhythmic (a catchall spanning upbeat rhythmic pop, hip hop and upbeat R&B) and 68 percent at country.

Buzzoven, Set To Release Violent Hits CD on November 4th

Buzzoven, Set To Release Violent Hits CD on November 4th

Buzzoven are releasing their latest collection of Violent Hits on cd and digital format November 4th. This album is a collection of their tracks, that is repackaged and featuring art from Christopher Parry / Sinister Illustration.

“All Things Hard, Harsh & Heavy” - Show Listings, on the HEAVIER Side, Throughout North Carolina

Music ranging from punk to hardcore, metal to metalcore, grind to doom, and goth to industrial!

This is a list of all shows and events across NC, spanning from Wilmington to Asheville!

Oct 02 -Russian Circles, Helms Alee /Motorco(D)

            -Skankfest Sunday Matinee: Regatta 69, Konrad Kuechenmeister, The Spectacles, High & Mighties,

             SiBANNAC /Cat’s Cradle(CH/C)

            -Blind Path Booking presents: Fall River Massacre, Filth, Lordis, Hounds, Sustenance, From Wrath To Ruins

             /The DHP(F)

            -Crank It Loud presents: Alestorm, Nekrogoblikon, Aether Realm /Arizona Pete’s(G)

            -Coheed and Cambria, Saves the Day, Polyphia /The Orange Peel(A)

Oct 03 -Saint Vitus, The Skull, Witch Mountain, Demon Eye /Kings Barcade(R)

            -Crank It Loud presents ‘To Hell With the Devil 30^th Anniversary’ tour: Stryper /The Throne Theater(W)

            -5&10 Entertainment presents: Sevendust(rescheduled show), Crobot, AuxiliA, Halden Vang

             /Amos’ Southend(C)

            -The Noise presents ‘The Unbreakable’ tour: Parkway Drive, We Came As Romans, Counterparts

             /The Fillmore(C)

Oct 04 -Disturbed, Chevelle, Nothing More /Red Hat Amphitheater(R) 

            -To Hell With the Devil 30^th Anniversary tour: Stryper, Loretta Jett /Amos’ Southend(C)

            -Anthrax, Death Angel /The Orange Peel(A)

Oct 05 -Svetlands(RU),GASH, KIFF /The Maywood(R)

            -Bloodshed For All tour 2016: Wednesday 13, One Eyed Doll, Fractured Fairytales /Amos’ Southend(C)

            -Journeys presents ‘The Made To Destroy‘ tour: Pierce the Veil, Neck Deep, I Prevail /The Fillmore(C)

Oct 06 -Crank It Loud presents: Neck Deep, TBA / The Throne Theater (formerly Ziggy’s by the Sea)(W)

            -ANTiSEEN, Svetlanas, Hammerlock /The Milestone(C)

            -Legends Of the Fall tour: August Burns Red, ERRA, (silentplanet), Make Them Suffer /The Orange Peel(A)

            -Filth, Lordis /The Odditorium(A)

Oct 07 -Clutch, Zakk Sabbath, Kyng /Lincoln Theatre Street Stage(R)

            -Primitive Ways presents: Necrocosm, Deathcrown, Pathogenesis, Origin Of Disease /The Maywood(R)

            -Rubbish, Blackball, Essex /Sound Factory(C)

            -Fractured Fairytales, Betray Your Own, Take Heart, Decibel 9, A Breath Forgotten, Verrat /The Rock Shop(F)

            -AEG presents Legends Of the Fall tour: August Burns Red, ERRA, (silentplanet), Make Them Suffer

             /Amos’ Southend(C)

            -Birds In Row, Frameworks, Listener, Carbon, Violent Gods /The Milestone(C)

 

Scientists: Here's What Listening to Slayer Does to Your Mind

 
According to a new study from the Journal of Psychology of Popular Media, metal music helps its listeners to deal with their own mortality.

The study divided a group of 30 individuals into two groups, assigning one group to listen to an audio book, while the other group listened to Slayer classic "Angel of Death."

The conclusion - listening to Slayer raises self-esteem and makes you less afraid of death.

Iranian Metalheads May Face Execution For Playing Music Deemed As Blasphemous

Iranian Metalheads May Face Execution For Playing Music Deemed As Blasphemous

Many times we forget what simple freedoms are about in America. It is easy to complain about why you don't have a better job, that liquor stores aren't open on sunday, weed should be legal, or who is the most outlaw. But, think on the big picture and the larger world around us. We actually have the freedom to be able to fully vest these ideas, see them through and to be able to make change. Fuck being an arm chair quarterback, make life happen and create a better world or get back in line with the rest of the sheep. My thoughts are with these fellas in Iran who just want to write and perform their music without being executed for going against the grain. 

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Iron Maiden Finally Gets Their Own Video Game

Iron Maiden Finally Gets Their Own Video Game

Read this post and more over at Mashable

"Up the irons, fans. Eddie's got some quests to finish.

Iron Maiden's beloved mascot is set to star in his own free-to-play video game, Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast, and it's coming to Android and iOS sometime this summer. He'll visit many of the surreal landscapes pictured in the band's album art over the years, taking on different forms (and new abilities) with each location he visits.

Publisher Roadhouse Interactive and developer 50cc Games are working closely with Maiden's management to deliver an enjoyable experience for fans. The various worlds Eddie visits are enhanced by music from the band's archives, including previously unheard live recordings curated by longtime engineer Tony Newton and founding bandmember Steve Harris.

More than Jazz in New Orleans?

Down plays Mardi Gras at the New Orleans Civic Center

Since the city of New Orleans is synonymous with  Mardi Gras, The French Quarter, Bourbon Street, crawfish, and Jazz, it's hard to imagine the city being home to a rock scene.

Stump Tail Dolly's Debut Album Merges Metal And Country Entirely Into It's Own Genre

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We would like to tell yall about a great band and couple of people that have recently joined Rusty Knuckles Music. Damn proud to have Lucy and Ryan on board with their new project Stump Tail Dolly. Equal parts rootsy americana and melded with the riffing and thrashiness of metal, this hybrid sound is a unique amalgamation and about to hit the road for touring.

Ryan Clackner and Lucy Cochran (sometimes separately, sometimes together) have toured, performed or recorded with Bob Wayne, Fifth on the Floor, Shooter Jennings, JD Wilkes, The Legendary Shack Shakers, Red Simpson, Sarah Gayle Meech, The Local Memories, Joe's Truck Stop, Tyshawn Sorey, and many others. They've opened for Social Distortion, Tiger Army, Hank III, George Thorogood, Unknown Hinson, Roger Clyne, JJ Grey, Scott Biram and more. Ryan has appeared in multiple music videos, including "Hush Hush" by The Pistol Annies. Lucy is an award-winning contest fiddler.

Stump Tail Dolly's debut album comes out Friday 11.20.15

Track Listing:

1. I've Endured - Reed (arr. STD)
2. Insomnia
3. Stump Tail Dolly- Traditional
4. Marish Prophet
5. Billy

Shane Martin Knows A Thing Or Two About Bending Metal

Shane Martin Knows A Thing Or Two About Bending Metal

One the greatest aspects of web searches or my new favorite, searching on instagram, is finding raw talent. There are a myriad of things in which we can find distractions in and one of the things I enjoy most is to see new artistic fabrication ideas in steel. What we think of as one secular object, being morphed into an entirely different object is just too damn cool. The patience to create these pieces along with the thought process speaks to the true imagination that might be lurking within any of us. Maybe it's time to take a page out of Shane Martin's playbook and work up some bolts into something cool. 

Build Your Own Backyard Forge

Backyard forge is finally done, now to adjust our heat with a small fan and we are ready to roll

Let the backyard metal casting begin! Getting the right air flow and heat dialed in. Now to just get up to 1900 degrees to melt the metal. Nothing like redneck tech.

Custom Guitar Straps For Young And In The Way

Custom guitar Straps for Young And In The Way

As our artist endorsements on custom guitar straps are rolling forward check, out the straps we recently finished up for the Young And In the Way. One of the baddest black encrusted metal bands to come out of the dirty south and on Deathwish Records.