Jason Roche

This week, Shout! Factory finally released their long awaited Blu-ray box set for Penelope Spheeris’ The Decline of Western Civilization trilogy of documentaries. Our attention initially gravitated to the over two hours of interview footage left on the cutting room floor for the 1988 release The Decline of Western Civilization......

Saturday, July 4 Author & Punisher Complex San Diego musician Tristan Shone generates a harsh din on his newest album Melk En Honing. Perfecting a sound that is industrial-metal in both literal and figurative terms, Shone is a mechanical engineer who designs and plays custom-made fabricated instruments that jump out......

Saturday, July 4 Author & Punisher Complex San Diego musician Tristan Shone generates a harsh din on his newest album Melk En Honing. Perfecting a sound that is industrial-metal in both literal and figurative terms, Shone is a mechanical engineer who designs and plays custom-made fabricated instruments that jump out......

Slayer guitarist Kerry King has long been one of the most outspoken members of the heavy metal community. When we spoke to him for this week’s Slayer feature, there were plenty of topics he touched on beyond what ended up in our final article. Below are just a few of......

"I've got a cocktail in my hands," says Slayer guitarist Kerry King, at a bar in Corona not far from his Riverside County home. "Life's good." For about two years, the phrase "life's good" was probably not something King said much. At the beginning of 2011, fellow Slayer guitarist Jeff......

Wednesday, June 3 Amaranthe Club Nokia This Swedish melodic metalcore act does an excellent job of balancing clean female vocals with harsher male voices on albums such as 2014’s Massive Addictive. A European pop songwriting sensibility lends a coat of gloss to the group’s groove-metal riffs, but it makes Amaranthe’s......

Wednesday, June 3 Amaranthe Club Nokia This Swedish melodic metalcore act does an excellent job of balancing clean female vocals with harsher male voices on albums such as 2014’s Massive Addictive. A European pop songwriting sensibility lends a coat of gloss to the group’s groove-metal riffs, but it makes Amaranthe’s......

As the co-founder of Los Angeles metal label Southern Lord Recordings and guitarist/bassist for experimental drone masters Sunn O))), Greg Anderson keeps a fairly hectic schedule. So when he reunited with his turn-of-the-millennium Sabbath-rock quartet Goatsnake at the 2010 Roadburn Festival in the Netherlands, it’s not surprising that it took......

This Saturday will mark the fifth anniversary of the death of legendary heavy metal vocalist Ronnie James Dio. The powerful voice behind genre classics such as “Holy Diver” and “Rainbow in the Dark” was silenced at the age of 67 by stomach cancer. But if Ronnie’s widow Wendy Dio has......

Vocalist John Bush has mostly remained in semi-retirement since leaving iconic heavy metal group Anthrax in 2006. Since he turned his back on the rock star grind to focus on his marriage and children, metal fans have cherished his intermittent recordings and rare live performances as part of his original band,......