Photo Credit: Pamela Littky After the success of Corey Taylor’s first solo album CMFT in 2020, it’s safe to say that those familiar with Corey Taylor’s work (whether it be Slipknot or solo) were excited about his next solo project. CMF2 is a sequel to Taylor’s first album and an improvement to its predecessor. One… Read more
Photo Credit: Jason Galea One thing for sure is if you are a fan of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, there is an endless supply of content at your fingertips. They are also one of the most hardworking bands to date, releasing five albums last year (one being a double album). King Gizzard released… Read more
Photo Credit: Andy Ford Earlier in the year, Sleep Token released various singles from their third studio album Take Me Back to Eden, with each single gaining over 17.5 million streams. This included “The Summoning,” which stayed within the top ten of Spotify’s viral global playlists. It’s no surprise that the singles did so well…. Read more
Photo Credit: Lindsey Byrnes The fifth full-length album by electronic music producer and DJ Nicholas Daniel Miller – known professionally as Illenium – opens with “Starfall,” an all-synth electronic instrumental. This is hardly the curtain-raiser a listener might expect if they choose to look ahead to the sixteen-song track listing, to see that upcoming cuts… Read more
Photo Credit: Travis Shinn Chicago’s Disturbed is already one of the most successful heavy metal bands to debut (on record) in the twenty-first century, boasting among other accomplishments four consecutive studio albums going to number one in the U.S. since Believe in 2002 (even Immortalized topped the charts in 2015, despite the band taking an… Read more
You can’t judge a book by the cover, except when you can. Look at these guys: Photo Credit: Zack Smith You KNOW what these guys sound like before you hear a note. If you’ve spent any time in New Orleans, and I do not mean Mardi Gras Bourbon Street, you know that it is a… Read more
Photo Credit: Collages via Billboard Most people will tell you that the only success that translates financially is “success.” In music, certainly, it’s thought to be almost entirely mathematical: the more records an artist has sold, the more “successful” they are (of course, in recent decades the number of downloads and streams would also have… Read more
It’s widely debated if – or at least to what degree – rap is rock ‘n’ roll. In New York City, where hip-hop originated, a few rock bands were among the first to recognize the significance of rap, as shown by the Tom Tom Club’s single “Wordy Rappinghood” and of course Blondie’s number one smash… Read more
Ozzfest at the Tweeter Center Camden, New Jersey 3 Inches of Blood Ankla Behemoth Black Tide Chthonic Devil Driver Hatebreed In This Moment Lamb of God Lordi Nile Static-X The Showdown Photography by: Steve Trager
Korn ‘Family Values’ Tour 2006 with Stone Sour at the Tweeter Center Camden, New Jersey Stone Sour Korn Photography by: Steve Trager