Metal Monday will be spending New Year’s Eve with the love of his life in Worcester, MA of all places. While not as extravagant as Vegas or NYC or some other exotic locale, Worcester is where Maryland’s Clutch will be simultaneously ending their 2012 and beginning their 2013. As luck would have it, I’ll be there to witness the glory (Show review coming later in the week). My love affair with Clutch began after seeing the video for “A Shogun […]
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Metal Monday Volume 102 (12.24.12)
I was originally going to use this week’s column to list my favorite shows of 2012. Then I decided to go with a holiday theme and focus on Old Man Gloom’s Christmas. If I had went with the former theme, I would’ve mentioned seeing Ministry for their final US show in Chicago over the summer. That would be the incarnation of Ministry featuring Mike Scaccia who passed away over the weekend after collapsing on stage at the age of 47. […]
Metal Monday Volume 101 (12.17.12)
If you missed Part 1 of “The Metal Monday Top 12 of ’12” here it is . All caught up? Good because we’re rolling on with Part 2! Are ya ready? Great! Here we go: 6. Lamb Of God: Resolution This album just recently seeped back into my consciousness and with good reason: It’s fucking awesome. It’s been a tumultuous year in the LOG camp with that little thing called a manslaughter charge hanging over Randy Blythe’s head. Despite that […]
Metal Monday Volume 100 (12.10.12): The 12 Best Metal Albums Of 2012 (Part 1)
What better way to celebrate 100 columns than with the first part of “Metal Monday’s Top 12 of ’12” list?
Metal Monday Volume 99 (12.3.12)
‘Tis the season to reflect on some badassery to come down the line in 2012 and none be more badass than Texas Hippie Coalition’s Big Dad Ritch. Earlier in the year, THC’s frontman was nice enough to speak with Metal Monday and Popblerd about Peacemaker (One of THE standout metal records of 2012) and all things Texas Hippie Coalition. Happy Metal Monday: Who is Texas Hippie Coalition and how’d you come up with the name? Texas Hippie Coalition started […]
Metal Monday Volume 98 (11.26.12)
The latter half of the fall music release season is undoubtedly filled with greatest hits albums and b-sides/rarities collections. The key to standing above the rest is to have an album such as Kylesa’s recently released From The Vaults, Vol. 1 stand on par with some of your best work. Whether you got into Kylesa through recent gems like Static Tensions of Spiral Shadow or were there from the beginning, there’s no doubt you’ll like something on From The Vaults, […]
Metal Monday Volume 97 (11.19.12)
Another Cavalera with metal chops, Max’s step son Richie prepares the sophomore release from Incite!
Metal Monday Volume 96 (11.12.12)
It’s almost impossible for the deftones to make a bad album at this stage of their almost 20-year recorded career. However, it’s not impossible for them to continually raise the bar in heaviness with each album. On the bands seventh album, they have made the most solid and, quite possibly, best album of their career so far. Deftones albums don’t necessarily fall into the metal category all the time. Their benchmark album, White Pony (Which I still think is just […]
Metal Monday Volume 95 (11.5.12)
Five songs is all it takes for one to completely fall under the spell of North Carolina’s Irata. On their latest EP, produced by Kylesa’s Phillip Cope, the duo masterfully create a sonic maelstrom of tribal beats and intricate riffs that lay siege to listeners senses. Harkening back to grunge greats like Alice In Chains and Soundgarden (Think Dirt and Badmotorfinger in particular) yet filled with the stuff modern duo’s like Death From Above 1979 and Middle Class Rut bring […]
Metal Monday Volume 94 (10.29.12)
I don’t have a lot of regrets in my life but one of them is missing the last show that Isis played in Boston due to unforeseen circumstances. Regardless, I still love the band to this day and wear my Isis/Pelican/Tombs limited edition Shirts And Destroy tee from the last show I had the honor of witnessing proudly on a regular basis. Classifying the band as merely “metal” is often a disservice because once you hear them, it’s oh so […]
Metal Monday Volume 93 (10.22.12)
Ill Nino is the kind of band that I just can’t stop liking. Coming at the tail end of the nu-metal explosion, Ill Nino brought something different: A tribal ferocity that sounded unlike any of the bands they were compared to at the time. On their sixth album, Epidemia, Ill Nino sound even more urgent than that band that blessed fans with Revolution Revolucion back in 2001. “The Depression” is the most solid single and opener Ill Nino have written […]
Metal Monday Volume 92 (10.22.12)
Neurosis is one of those bands that I know I should be a fan of but I’ve never been really. That changed with 2007’s Given To The Rising which I forced myself to listen to because I felt I owed all of the bands I liked already who credited Neurosis as an influence. Given… did not disappoint and I found myself on the edge of my seat with anticipation at the arrival of the one you’re reading about now. But […]
