Alternative Music
JAMES HETFIELD’s Son CASTOR Releases Debut Album From BASTARDANE
BASTARDANE, the new band featuring drummer Castor Hetfield, the son of METALLICA frontman James Hetfield, has just released its debut album, “Is This Rage?” In addition to the 21-year-old Castor, the Savannah, Georgia-based hard rock trio includes Jake Dallas on vocals/bass and Ethan Sirotzki on guitar. The group formed in 2019 from a collection of college students who met through jamming in basements, backyards, and anywhere that was available. Their brand of entertainment fuses fast high-gain riffs and power chord grooves with heavy feedback and clean, dissonant chord progressions. “Is This Rage?” track listing: 01. Above All 02. Praise No Bliss 03. Gaslight 04. Chum 05. Revolt 06. Let The Wasted Die 07. Imposter 08. The Cavalier 09. Ad Infinitum 10. Faint-Hearted...
Rap Song of the Week: Fivio Foreign Takes Brooklyn Drill to “Magic City”
Every Friday, our new music column Rap Song of the Week breaks down the hip-hop tracks you need to hear. Check out the full playlist here. This week, Fivio Foreign teams up with Quavo for his new single “Magic City.” Based on association alone, Fivio Foreign was tapped to be the next big star to emerge from the Brooklyn drill scene after Pop Smoke’s murder in February 2020. Those expectations were raised when Drake recruited Fivio for “Demons,” the Toronto rapper’s nod to the hip-hop subgenre, but it’s taken Fivio a few years to increase his profile further and ready his debut album. Along the way, the East Flatbush native found a new mentor in Kanye West, impressing a whole new fanbase with a show-stopping appearance on the Donda cut “Off the Grid.” Last month, Fivio reunited with Ka...
Bladee and Ecco2k Release Surprise Album Crest: Stream
Bladee and Ecco2K dropped a surprise on their fans today in the form of their brand new album Crest via YEAR0001. Stream the full project below. Produced by the pair’s longtime collaborator Whitearmor entirely in a tiny red cabin located in the south of their native Sweden, the nine-track album contains tracks like “The Flag Is Raised,” “5 Star Crest (4 Vattenrum),” “Desire Is a Trap,” and “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.” The Stockholm-based hyperpop duo’s collaborative studio set serves as a follow-up to their latest single “Amygdala” as well as Bladee’s 2021 album The Fool. Ecco2K’s most recent albums, E and Trash Island, were both released back in 2019. Advertisement Related Video Stream Crest and check out the album’s artwork and full tracklist below. This week, the duo will also join Wh...
Fiona Apple Shows You How to Call Maryland Lawmakers in Support of Virtual Court Access: Watch
Fiona Apple is no stranger to political activism. In the past couple of years, the musical powerhouse has protested and donated her royalties to charitable causes. This time around, she’s urging fans to call Maryland lawmakers in an effort to keep allowing virtual access in courts. To make it a bit easier, she’s even shared a step-by-step video guide on how to do so. For obvious reasons, remote court hearings and proceedings have spiked in frequency over the past two years. If Maryland’s House Bill 657 and Senate Bill 469 are passed, Apple explains, courts would continue to be more just. Apple added, “We actually have legislation written but we need to have it brought to the floor for a vote… So here’s what we would do. Just make two phone calls. I made two phone calls already, and I have ...
Pixar’s Lightyear Restores Same-Sex Kiss After Staff Revolt over Support of ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill
Disney continues to do damage control following reports that the company donated to every sponsor of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. After Pixar staff publicly accused the House of Mouse of censoring gay affection in their films last week, Variety has learned that a previously-cut same-sex kiss has been restored to Lightyear. Lightyear is a Pixar origin tale starring Chris Evans as the astronaut upon which the Buzz Lightyear action figure in Toy Story is based. Uzo Aduba co-stars as the character Hawthorne, an astronaut in a relationship with another woman. While the movie reportedly always treated her romantic partnership as serious, a kiss between the characters had been cut. Now, it’s back in the film. It’s the latest attempt by Disney to win back LGBT...
BRUCE DICKINSON Was ‘Done’ With The Lockdown After The First Year
In a new interview with Las Vegas Weekly, IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson was asked how he handled lockdown. He responded: “I had just done two spoken-word show in St. Petersburg and Moscow, and that was the weirdest experience, because they were doing simultaneous translation of a semi-comedic show. You’d say what approximates to a punchline and get no response. Then you go, ‘Anyway, on Tuesday,’ and they’d bust out laughing. There was a 30-second lag on the laughter. “I went from there back to Paris where I was staying with my partner, Leana,” he continued. “I got back on Saturday, and then the president of France comes on the TV and says, ‘Tonight, midnight, all bars are shut.’ I went, holy cow, let’s go out and get a ...
MÖTLEY CRÜE’s NIKKI SIXX To Guest On This Sunday’s Episode Of ‘American Idol’
MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx will make a guest appearance on this Sunday’s (March 20) episode of “American Idol”. The episode will feature auditions on Los Angeles’s iconic Sunset Strip where CRÜE got its start during the 1980s. In a statement to Billboard, Sixx said: “It was a lot of fun to team up with ‘American Idol’ upon the show’s return to L.A. After all, MÖTLEY CRÜE are also from L.A., and so many amazing songwriters call Los Angeles their ‘Home Sweet Home’. “Because of ‘American Idol’, a lot of great, timeless, classic songs have not only been re-interpreted by the next generation of talented singers but have also been re-introduced to mainstream audiences and younger generations of music fans for the l...
Culture Of Violence – EXTINCTION A.D.
RATING: 8/10 These are heady days for thrash metal, not least because we seem to be entering a new Cold War. EXTINCTION A.D. released an absolute face-ripper of an EP last year, and since global events have taken yet another turn for the worse, a full-length from these militant destroyers would seem to be exactly what everyone needs. Laudably livid from start to finish, “Culture of Violence” lives up to its title. Maybe it’s a sign of the times, but EXTINCTION A.D. have the same sledgehammer intensity that has propelled the likes of POWER TRIP and ENFORCED to metallic prominence. Everything from the opening title track, replete with brilliantly odd breakdown, to “National Disaster”‘s visceral climax, is delivered with maximum brute force, and a stellar r...
What Do Americans Think Of The War In Ukraine? TED NUGENT Has His Finger On The Pulse
In a new interview with Eric Bolling, the host of Newsmax‘s “Eric Bolling The Balance”, outspoken conservative rocker Ted Nugent was asked to weigh in on what Americans think of the war in Ukraine. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Well, number one, Eric, I’m honored and humbled that you know I actually connect with the pulse of real patriots, working-hard, playing-hard Americans every day. “I’m glad you had Peter Navarro [the longest-serving senior advisor in President Donald Trump‘s White House] on, because his book title [‘In Trump Time: A Journal Of America’s Plague Year’] pretty much says what’s on the minds of great Americans right now, that this is Trump time. And we know that none of this happened ...
Decapitated Announce New Album Cancer Culture, Unleash Title Track: Stream
Polish death metallers Decapitated are returning with their eighth studio album, Cancer Culture, on May 27th. The band offered up the title track as the lead single. It’s a ferocious slab of technically perfected extreme metal, with a fair bit of melody guiding the snarled vocals of Rafał “Rasta” Piotrowski. Overall, the track falls on the catchier end of the tech-death spectrum. “It wasn’t easy to pick the first single from Cancer Culture,” guitarist Waclaw ‘Vogg’ Kieltyka commented in a press release. “Each song has this different vibe that we would like to show as soon as possible and be proud of. Since ‘Cancer Culture’ is the first song from the album, we decided that this would be the perfect way to introduce you to new music. It is the album’s opening chapter, and you know what you c...
Neil Young Announces Official Release Series Volume 4 Box Set
Neil Young has announced the coming release of his latest box set, Official Release Series Volume 4, out April 29th via Reprise Records. The collector’s item will include three of Young’s albums from the ’80s: 1980’s Hawks & Doves, 1981’s Re•ac•tor with Crazy Horse, and 1988’s This Note’s for You with The Bluenotes, as well as his 1989 EP Eldorado, which has previously only been available in Japan and Australia. Coming to the US for the very first time, Eldorado features the singer-songwriter backed by The Restless (Chad Cromwell and Rick Rosas) on tracks such as “Cocaine Eyes,” “Heavy Love,” and “On Broadway.” Advertisement Related Video The box set will be available in vinyl and CD editions. While the CD version will be available for purchase through all retailers, fans can only get ...
The Riddler Himself Paul Dano to Write New DC Comic Riddler: Year One
Paul Dano didn’t just play The Riddler in Matt Reeves’ The Batman, he got inside the villain’s head. Now he’s ready to put that knowledge to good use with Riddler: Year One, a new DC comic book due out in October. DC Comics unveiled their newest property in a social media post. “A new Riddler comic book hits stores this October with RIDDLER: YEAR ONE,” the announcement read. It also included a first look at the artwork, which shows a very suggestive pair of glasses framing the title. What they did not share was the artist responsible for that first look, thereby continuing a long tradition of comic book companies screwing over the less-well-known people who make their comics. There are other mysteries at this time, too, including the plot of Riddler: Yea...
