Jason Roche

Saturday, April 5 Behemoth House of Blues Hollywood Now three years removed from winning his battle against leukemia, band leader Nergal is continuing to push the boundaries of death metal with Behemoth's newest album, The Satanist. The Polish trio is relentless in their blasphemous sonic assaults. The group has peppered......

When Los Angeles prog-rock group Bigelf released their 2008 album Cheat The Gallows, momentum seemed to be on their side. After 15 years of slogging it out in the local scene, the group was gaining support slots on arena-rock tours thanks to their brand of catchy pop-rock melodies filtered through......

When we ranked The Top Five Metal Guitarists Under The Age of 30 in 2011, our comments section blew up with readers upset by the fact that we ranked Animals As Leaders mastermind Tosin Abasi number two behind Colin Marston of Behold... The Arctopus. But in 2014, Animals As Leaders......

The character of Oderus Urungus - leader of costumed heavy-metal outfit GWAR - was a loutish brute. An intergalactic space traveler hell-bent on exterminating the human race, he took great pleasure in committing brutal atrocities on the worst examples of our species during live performances. Unfortunately for the human race,......

Venice power trio The Shrine burst onto the scene with their 2012 debut Primitive Blast. The group's mission statement was to skate, surf, and rock the fuck out. Their infectiously catchy tracks appealed equally to fans of early '80s SST Records hardcore and stoner rock acts like Fu Manchu. See......

Thursday, March 6 Christian Mistress E. 7th St. Warehouse Seattle quintet Christian Mistress make thunderous rock, plain and simple. On albums such as 2012's Possession, the group's riffs owe a debt to '70s masters of metal, with paying homage to Black Sabbath and the New Wave of British Heavy Metalers......

In Los Angeles, thrash bands are a dime a dozen. Plenty of others are advocating for the post-metal throne, abdicated by the breakup of Isis. And, disturbingly, there's still plenty of nu-metal. But black metal? We haven't traditionally had much of the genre where "vocals often sound like a goblin being......

A love of hard rock and heavy metal has been a common bond for Conan and Mario Moreno since the cousins dressed up as KISS' Gene Simmons and Ace Frehley for Halloween as kids in the late '90s. Now in their mid-20's, Conan and Mario are the frontman/guitarist and drummer,......