Alternative Music

Veteran British extreme metallers CRADLE OF FILTH have released the official music video for the song “How Many Tears To Nurture A Rose?” The clip premiered last night as part of CRADLE OF FILTH‘s “Infernal Vernal Equinox Deadstream”, and now fans all across the globe can also bask in its sublime black magick. Directed by Vicente Cordero, the stunning video winds a haunting tale – sinister, alluring and deadly. But he that dares not grasp the thorn, should never crave the rose… CRADLE OF FILTH frontman Dani “Filth” Davey stated: “This is yet another great video by director Vicente Cordero, encapsulating the occult essence of the song’s lyricism with great sweeping colorful strokes of total batshit-craziness. It really makes ...

Due to back injury, MONSTER MAGNET has announced the cancelation of its performance at Desertfest New York 2022 in May and its European summer 2022 tour. MONSTER MAGNET lead singer Dave Wyndorf suffered a bike accident earlier in the year and is currently in physical therapy. Wyndorf says in a statement: “My apologies to everybody for dropping out at this time. I’m as disappointed as anyone. Doctors say I should be as good as new by summer’s end and then we can start making up for lost time. ROCK!” MONSTER MAGNET released its first covers album, “A Better Dystopia”, last May. The album was conceived and recorded during the pandemic and is composed of “strange bits of musical obscurity,” in the words of Wyndorf. “I didn’t feel much...

A number of friends, family, fans and fellow rockers gathered this past Saturday (March 19) at late OZZY OSBOURNE/QUIET RIOT guitarist Randy Rhoads‘s gravesite at the Mt. View Mortuary & Cemetery in San Bernardino, California to mark the 40th anniversary of his death. Among the well-wishers to a marble mausoleum bearing the Rhoads name were Randy‘s sister Kathy and brother Kelle. Photos of the event can be seen below. People reportedly travel from around the world, as far as Japan and New Zealand, to the cemetery to pay tribute to the iconic axeman. Back in 2012, on the 30th anniversary of Randy‘s death, hundreds of heavy metal fans and fellow musicians gathered at his gravesite, including Tom Morello (RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE), Zakk Wylde (OZZY OSBOURNE) and Frankie ...

Tanya O’Callaghan says that “there is talk” of WHITESNAKE continuing to write and record new music even after the completion of the band’s farewell tour. In November, Tanya was named the latest member of the long-running hard rock outfit as the replacement for longtime bassist Michael Devin whose departure was revealed a few days earlier. When asked in a new interview with VWMusic if she will be staying on to record in the studio with WHITESNAKE as well, Tanya said: “Yeah, hopefully. There’s talk of it already. It’s one of the questions. We’ll probably keep recording, so absolutely. It’s just touring that David [Coverdale, WHITESNAKE frontman] is done and set with. I don’t think he can ever stop writing music, he’s a song ma...

The liturgy of Oso Oso is built from finding the perfect view, feeling sand between your toes, and watching the sun rise. You know the motto: Life Is Good. Though frontman Jade Lilitri culls his sound from the malcontent and often misogynistic legacy of Long Island emo, his lyrics fawn more than they fight, staring doe-eyed at the universe. In his native Long Beach, New York, it’s easy to find the Biblical in the everyday—the vastness of the Atlantic is never more than a mile away, and the town was devastated by Hurricane Sandy only a decade ago. The sea is a running motif in his work, and on Oso Oso’s fourth record, Sore Thumb, it’s a fatal mission: “Captain of my own Titanic,” he sings on opener “Computer Exploder,” trapped in a fated battle against his own worst impulses. If emo had its...

In a new interview with Elliott Fullam of Little Punk People, MESHUGGAH‘s Tomas Haake was asked if he naturally keeps count of everyday tasks since he’s a drummer. He responded: “Not really. I do have one weird thing, though. I don’t necessarily see the connection with me being a drummer, but maybe there is. And that’s… I really can’t walk up staircases without counting the steps. And for a while, actually, I used to count my steps when I was just walking too. But that would be the only thing where I have some kind of weird OCD that kind of kicks in. But you can ask me, all the staircases that I use in life, that I’ve used more than a couple times, you could ask me, and I would tell you the exact amount of steps for all of them. Anything that’...

Heavy horror punk icon Wednesday 13 spoke to Brutal Planet Magazine about his upcoming album which is due later in the year. The follow-up to 2019’s “Necrophaze” will mark the former MURDERDOLLS frontman’s first release for Napalm Records, with whom he signed last year. “I started writing music as soon as I got home [at the beginning of the pandemic], and by the time this whole thing was over, I think I wrote about 50 pieces of music, and I only liked about 10 songs out of it, or 10 songs made sense to me,” he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “I found it really hard to be inspired during this time,” Wednesday 13 admitted. “And I wasn’t gonna force anything, but it was a really difficult time to write. Even though I had a...

According to Variety, Dave Grohl‘s metal album that he recorded as the fictional band DREAM WIDOW in the FOO FIGHTERS‘ horror-comedy film “Studio 666” will be made available digitally next Friday, March 25, with a physical release to follow later this year. The LP’s first single, “March Of The Insane”, came out last month. In “Studio 666”, FOO FIGHTERS move into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock and roll history to record their much-anticipated tenth album. Once in the house, Grohl finds himself grappling with supernatural forces related to related to the studio’s former residents — the aforementioned fictional act DREAM WINDOW — that threaten both the completion of the album and the lives of the FOO FIGHTERS. “I wind...

Outspoken conservative rocker Kid Rock recently sat down with Fox News host Tucker Carlson for a rare one-on-one interview. According to a message on Tucker‘s official Twitter, “nothing” was off the table in this “fascinating discussion”, part of which will air Monday, March 21 on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” at 8 p.m. ET on Fox News. In a short preview clip shared by Carlson, the Fox News host asks Kid Rock, “Why haven’t you been canceled? Like, people aren’t allowed to say what they think. You are.” Rock responds that he is “uncancelable,” and when Carlson asks “why’s that?” Rock responds, “’cause I don’t give a [expletive]. “I’m not in bed with any big corporate thin...