Around beginning of the 21st Century, there was a wave of new hard rock and metal acts arriving on the scene, most of whom got lumped into the what was being dubbed "nu metal" at the time. In the ...

Disturbed just started to make their impact on the music scene at the turn of the century, but like many heavier acts of the day they got lumped in with the nu metal movement of the time. Singer David ...

Getting into metal and hardcore in my early teens, the bands on the T-shirts of the older kids at my school enticed and intimidated me in equal measure. The indecipherable logos, crust punk bands ...

The long, intertwined roots of one of the world’s most successful independent metal labels can be traced back to a dorm room in a military boarding school two decades ago. Ash Avildsen, the future ...

Gear Gods scribe Trey Xavier makes a really good point with regards to sending unsolicited demos to record labels: Think of it like this – expecting a label to sign you based solely on a demo you send ...

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Even with “Thank You” and “Ramble On” on Led Zeppelin II, critics considered the LP the birth of metal. (Many still do.) And after III, some wondered if the Zep would pick a lane (i.e., hard or soft).

Bandcamp is easily the best download and streaming platform available to bands. It has everything a record label could ever want, too: the ability to offer streams and/or downloads, customizable ...

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During the course of its 26 years, Relapse Records has become one of the most respected American labels to specialize in metal. Last year alone, it put out praised albums from Inter Arma, Cough, and ...