Alternative Music

NONPOINT will release its new EP, “Ruthless”, on December 27. The official music video for single “Back In The Game” will arrive on the same day. With the roar of one word “independence”, NONPOINT has transcended the underground and taken its rightful place in metal history. Even now they continue to change the rules with their newest song “Back In The Game”, which keeps the NONPOINT tradition of inviting you in close, kicking you in the chest, then imprisoning an infectious lyric like “’cause you’re looking at a one-man death squad” into your mind knowing it will never escape. This song and official video go live across all streaming platforms December 27 at midnight along with the remaining songs from the “Ruth...

Photographer Deborah Samuel is credited for capturing the now-iconic album cover images for the RUSH albums “Permanent Waves”, “Moving Pictures”, “Exit…Stage Left” and “Signals”. Now in the 40th anniversary year of “Moving Pictures” — long considered one of rock’s all-time classic albums — fans will be able to obtain extremely rare photograph outtakes from the album cover shoot. Incredibly, these “Moving Pictures” photographs have never been made public. No alternate versions have appeared in magazines, in calendars, in books, or online anywhere, and have now been made available for the first time ever with the release of the Deborah Samuel Collection. Contained in this ultra-limited-edition curated collection ar...

During appearance on “Guitar Autopsy”, the video podcast hosted by Rusty Cooley, ALICE COOPER guitarist Nita Strauss spoke about how she managed to lose 50 pounds and get sober while on tour back in 2015. “My whole approach to sobriety and health and fitness is to educate but not ever force,” she said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “I wouldn’t ever want it to be, like, ‘You have to stop drinking. You have to do cardio every day,’ or whatever. All I can share is really what worked for me, and that was alcohol was extremely, extremely detrimental in my personal life. “I got sober in 2015 and I basically just decided to make the most of it and said, ‘If I’m gonna do this, I’m gonna do it right,'” she continue...

THE IRON MAIDENS, the world’s only all-female tribute to IRON MAIDEN, will team up with Swiss all-female metal act BURNING WITCHES for a limited number of dates in the U.S. in May. Formed in Los Angeles in 2001, THE IRON MAIDENS electrify audiences with their true-to-MAIDEN renditions, tight musicianship, and high-energy stage antics. These women channel their inner Eddies (or Edwinas, more appropriately) to deliver their homage to the mighty MAIDEN, impressing even the most diehard MAIDEN fans across the globe. THE IRON MAIDENS said: “We are pleased to join forces with BURNING WITCHES as we know first-hand what talented, fiery players they are, so be forewarned: this tour is going to melt faces! After all, hell hath no fury like a woman…” BURNING WITCHES was founde...

From rewriting the hard rock rulebook with his Grammy Award-winning trio HIGH ON FIRE to reverse-engineering doom metal with his genre-defining trio SLEEP, Matt Pike has channeled his natural talents and chiseled a steely path straight to the heart of modern-day metal’s molten core. On February 18, Pike will release his debut solo LP, “Pike Vs. The Automaton”, via MNRK Heavy. Born out of the challenges brought on by a worldwide pandemic, birthed under hellish red-orange skies bred from rampaging west coast wildfires, and built amidst the yearlong political riots and rallies in Portland, Oregon, Pike‘s solo debut, “Pike Vs. The Automaton”, is both a musical and emotional release. The record was written by Pike with drummer Jon Reid, features contributions...

Starting today, the Dave Mustaine Flying V EXP in Antique Natural and Silver Metallic finishes is available on Gibson.com and at select global dealers in very limited quantities. A wider release of units is planned for February 2022. Gibson is truly honored to be working with Mustaine, a guitarist, songwriter, and bandleader who formed MEGADETH at the dawn of the American thrash metal movement. Mustaine has sold 38 million records worldwide, earned six platinum albums, and is a Grammy Award winner, cancer survivor, and a certified first degree black belt in Ukidokan Karate, and Songahm Taekwondo, an honorary fourth degree black belt and Goodwill Ambassador in the World Taekwondo Federation, and is currently on the way to a first degree black belt in Gracie Barra Jiu-Jitsu. The Dave Mustain...

During an appearance earlier today (Tuesday, December 14) on the “Holmberg’s Morning Sickness” show on Arizona’s 98KUPD radio station, ex-SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach addressed criticism from his former bandmates that he was difficult to work with during his time with the group. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “They would say to me, if I didn’t like one of their songs, they’d say, ‘You’re hard to work with.'” Pressed about whether he was in fact hard to work with, Sebastian said: “You wanna go listen to the records without me, and then listen to the records with me. Why don’t you, the consumer, go and put the headphones on… Are you hard to work with? Do you like ’18 And Life’. ‘I love ...