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Mining Metal: Depravity, Dark Quarterer, Eternal Champion, Liturgy, Fuck the Facts, Megaton Sword, Stormkeep, Undergang
“Mining Metal” is a monthly column from Heavy Consequence writers Joseph Schafer and Langdon Hickman. The focus is on noteworthy new music emerging from the non-mainstream metal scene, highlighting releases from small and independent labels — or even releases from unsigned acts. Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by … hold on let me look outside. Nope, still the winter of our discontent, my mistake. This is the eighth Mining Metal introduction essay that I’ve had to write during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to be honest with you, dear readers, I’m running out of even vaguely optimistic spins to ladle onto our monthly roundup of underground metal’s finest riffs. I guess I could say – at least we know who will lead our nation next year, right? How’s this: when we began th...
THE ROLLING STONES Launch Their Latest Fashion Collection To The World Online
Following the opening of their world-first flagship store in London’s Soho, RS No. 9 Carnaby, THE ROLLING STONES have launched a brand-new, global e-commerce shop equipped with a 360-degree virtual experience so customers can step in and shop inside the store from anywhere in the world. If you can’t get to the store in Carnaby Street London, then the virtual store is the next best thing. Once the shopper enters the virtual store, they can select from the incredible product offering. The site has a seamless user journey over the store’s two floors, including the sound booth room which hosts collaboration pieces such as the exclusive Stutterheim rain mac. Shop the new fashion forward autumn/winter collection for men and women which is influenced by workwear and also showcas...
Canadian Progresive Rockers SAGA To Release New Album, ‘Symmetry’, In March
Canadian progressive rockers SAGA will release a new studio album, “Symmetry”, on March 12, 2021 via earMUSIC. After going on tour in spring 2020, SAGA went straight into its home studios. The result: an album full of acoustic originals. “Symmetry” offers a unique listening experience by bundling complex and delicate arrangements with familiar melodies and sounds. It gives the listener the possibility to explore and discover SAGA classics like “Wind Him Up”, “Say Goodbye To Hollywood” and “Tired World” once more and in a completely new way. SAGA managed to create more than just new versions of their songs; they created a sonic world full of little details that invites the listeners to dive deeper into the complex musical phenomeno...
JUDAS PRIEST’s ROB HALFORD Speaks Out Against Body Shaming
In a new interview with “A Gay And A Nongay Podcast”, JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford, who came out more than 20 years ago, was asked what advice he had for for gay men and women who feel like they don’t fit common gay stereotypes. He said (see video below): “I think that the whole body shaming and imaging is just as prevalent in the straight world as it is in the gay world. You always have to have somebody with a six-pack on [on the cover of] a gay mag, and that’s wrong. You always have to have some beautiful, slim, gorgeous woman on [the cover of] a straight magazine or whatever. It’s just mad that we’re still at that place. Just push by that, ’cause it’s fluff — it really is fluff. It has no relevance whatsoever. “If you’...
WHITESNAKE’s DAVID COVERDALE Unboxes ‘Love Songs’ Collection (Video)
A six-minute video in which WHITESNAKE frontman David Coverdale unboxes a copy of “Love Songs”, a new collection that contains remixed and remastered versions of the group’s best love songs, can be seen below. “Love Songs” is the second release in the band’s “Red, White and Blues Trilogy”, a series of compilations organized by musical themes that began this summer with “The Rock Album” (white) and will conclude next year with “The Blues Album” (blue). The new collection includes a mix of hits and deep tracks that were originally released between 1987 and 2011 on five WHITESNAKE studio albums and David Coverdale‘s third solo album, “Into The Light”. “Love Songs” was released on November 6 a...
Snoop Dogg Narrates Ty Dolla $ign & Post Malone’s ‘Spicy’ Wild West Video
Ty Dolla $ign is a man on a mission in the Wild West video for his Post Malone collab “Spicy.” With Snoop Dogg along for the (horse) ride to narrate a tale of redemption and revenge after the Stick-Up Kids snag Ty’s money, clothes and girlfriend, the visual splits the difference between dusty trails and future tales. And as Uncle Snoop warns, the Kids may have taken it all, but the one thing they left behind was Ty’s guitar — “boy, did they f–k up.” The clip directed by James Larese from the three-time Grammy nominee’s Featuring Ty Dolla $ign album finds Ty riding his mechanized horse to a saloon, where he meets up with his partner in crime Posty. After smashing heads and breaking bottles, the duo gallop up on the Kids and Ty dispatches...
11 Things We Learned From Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions’
Here’s everything we learned from the film. William Bowery Is Joe Alwyn When Folklore was released, an unknown writer named William Bowery was credited on both “Exile” and “Betty.” Fans speculated over the identity, but Taylor confirmed in the doc that it is, in fact, her longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn. The First Song She Wrote Is “My Tears Ricochet” and She Always Knew It Would Be Track No. 5 In Taylor Swift lore, track five on each album always deals in heartbreak and sadness. “My Tears Ricochet” fit that theme. “Chronologically, that’s the first thing. I wrote that one alone,” Swift said to Antonoff. “It’s definitely I think one of the saddest songs on the album.” “I think it’s one of the...
Winans Family Extends Chart Legacy, As Juan & Lisa Winans Lead Gospel Airplay for First Time
While the twosome reigns in its first Gospel Airplay appearance, Marvin Winans, who is Juan’s uncle, adds his second No. 1. He first led as featured on Andrae Crouch’s “Let the Church Say Amen,” for four weeks starting in April 2012. Marvin Winans is a member of landmark gospel group The Winans, which also includes Carvin (Juan’s father) and Michael Winans. The act most recently ruled Top Gospel Albums in 1990 with its LP Return. Juan Winans began his career as a teenaged member of the group Winans Phase 2, with younger members of the family. The act scored a No. 1 on Top Gospel Albums in its lone appearance, as We Get Next led in September 1999. Lisa Winans (formerly Lisa Kimmey) broke through as a member of Christian music trio Out of Eden with her sisters A...
Phoebe Bridgers Reacts to 4 Grammy Nominations, Reveals Plans to ‘Level Up’ Her Skeleton Outfit
Bridgers, who released her acclaimed second album, Punisher, on Dead Oceans in June, earned four nominations: best new artist, best alternative album, and best rock song and best rock performance for the melodic and impassioned single “Kyoto.” While she asserts “there’s not enough nominations for the amount of very incredible music in the world,” she’s excited to see artists she loves, like Chika and Megan Thee Stallion, also in this year’s best new artist class. “I feel like [Megan] turned positivity into being punk rock, you know?” she says of the latter. “If the intersection of nihilism and optimism is ‘f— everything,’ she’s the optimism side.” Bridgers also recalls how Conor Oberst’s former tour manager used to say: “Bright Eyes, best new artist 15 years running” (the band was, i...
RIP Diego Maradona, Soccer’s Tragic Rock ‘n Roll Star
Diego Maradona died on Wednesday morning at the age of 60 a few weeks after having brain surgery. But it was the complications of a heart attack that did him in — coincidentally, for in the words of Rod Tidwell from Jerry Maguire, Maradona was “ALL HEART.” That he survived ’til he was 60 was a miracle in itself. There was no footballer quite like the El Pibe de Oro (The Golden Boy). Diego Armando Maradona defied the odds. A whirling dervish with the spellbinding ability of the Tasmanian devil, the 5’5” Maradona was a literal whirlwind on the field…and off. At the peak of his powers in the 1980s, Maradona had a drug appetite that would have made Lawrence Taylor, the Gallagher brothers and Robin Williams blush. More on that later. Maradona will forever be known for the “Hand of God” — ...
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Borgore, Hekler, and T-Wayne Collide for Epic frshblood Relaunch [Premiere]
In 2014, Buygore launched its frshblood sub-label to create a home for some of the most prominent and rising names in dubstep. However, the label went silent following its November 16, 2018 release with Subkill. Shortly over two years later, frshblood has announced its long-awaited return and is making up for lost time with a massive comeback compilation, Royal Blood. Royal Blood, exclusively premiering today via EDM.com, will host 27 songs from 34 artists including frshblood alums Code:Pandorum, Decimate, and Haunta and fresh faces such as Ace Aura, ARTIX!, Sora, Cyclops, and more. The leading track from the compilation will appropriately be a filthy collab between rising bass star Hekler, rapper T-Wayne, and Buygore founder Borgore called R...
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Dua Lipa, Morgan Wallen to Perform on SNL
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Dua Lipa and Morgan Wallen will be the musical guests on the December episodes of Saturday Night Live. If you remember, Wallen was booted from an episode earlier this year due to violating COVID protocols. He was replaced by Jack White as the musical guest. Jason Bateman, Timothée Chalamet and Kristen Wiig will host the final three episodes of 2020. They will take place Dec. 5 (Bateman and Wallen), Dec. 12 (Chalamet and Springsteen/E Street Band) and Dec. 19 for the Christmas episode (Wiig and Lipa). Springsteen released Letter to You in October. You can read our review of it here. Meanwhile, Lipa had quite a day on Tuesday — picking up six Grammy nominations, including several in the major categories. You Deserve to Make Money E...
