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The Tool bassist and the Sweet Noise singer released Matter’s Knot, Pt. 1 in November.
MTVoid’s Justin Chancellor and Peter Mohamed Talk New Album and Collaborative Process
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MTVoid — the duo comprised of Tool bassist Justin Chancellor and Sweet Noise vocalist Peter Mohamed — unveiled their debut album, Nothing’s Matter, in 2013. The LP saw the pair (alongside some guests) incorporating their revered specialities into new musical and theoretical paths. Bursting with philosophical insights, culturally specific attributes,…
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The wildly eclectic LP broke through to the mainstream, becoming a surprising hit in the rock and metal world.
25 Years Ago, System of a Down Embraced Eccentricity with Their Self-Titled Debut Album
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“We are not an Armenian band, we are not a heavy metal band, and we aren’t nu-metal,” guitarist-singer Daron Malakian clarified to alma mater Glendale High School in 2003. “We are System of a Down. … We are what rock music has evolved into.” Of course, those attributes are an…
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25 Years Ago, System of a Down Embraced Eccentricity with Their Self-Titled Debut Album
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Deafheaven’s sophomore album brought the brutality and beauty of blackgaze into the spotlight.
10 Years Ago, Deafheaven’s Sunbather Challenged the Boundaries of Metal
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“The whole shoegaze/black metal, or post-black metal thing, was being done 10 years before we were a band,” founding Deafheaven guitarist Kerry McCoy told Red Bull Music Academy in 2017. Indeed, blackgaze had been around for several years prior to the San Francisco act’s 2010 formation, with Alcest, Fen, and…
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10 Years Ago, Deafheaven’s Sunbather Challenged the Boundaries of Metal
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The metal vocalist proved his brilliance post-Rainbow and post-Sabbath with the debut album from his band Dio.
40 Years Ago, Ronnie James Dio Cemented His Greatness with Holy Diver
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When Ronnie James Dio left Rainbow in 1979, he didn’t wallow in self-pity or rest on his laurels. Instead, he replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath and further solidified his place as one of the genre’s greatest singers via 1980’s Heaven and Hell and 1981’s Mob Rules. He then faced…
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40 Years Ago, Ronnie James Dio Cemented His Greatness with Holy Diver
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The 1983 LP stands as one of Iron Maiden’s best albums and a highlight of classic heavy metal.
40 Years Ago, Iron Maiden Cemented a Classic Lineup with Piece of Mind
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Iron Maiden’s 1982 album The Number of the Beast was a massive triumph, as it exceeded its two predecessors critically and commercially — earning them their first No. 1 spot on the UK Albums chart and proving that singer Bruce Dickinson was the ideal replacement for Paul Di’Anno. The legendary…
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40 Years Ago, Iron Maiden Cemented a Classic Lineup with Piece of Mind
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A look back at the progressive metal band’s first full-length LP.
30 Years Ago, Tool Crafted a Masterful Debut Album with Undertow
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Among other trends, the early 1990s saw grunge take over as the dominant rock scene, leaving the hair-metal bands that had commanded the previous decade in the dust. At the same time, though, the burgeoning subgenre of progressive metal found Queensrÿche, Fates Warning, Shadow Gallery, and Dream Theater offering elaborate…
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30 Years Ago, Tool Crafted a Masterful Debut Album with Undertow
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A new supernatural series from the makers of Dark, Netflix’s 1899 is elegantly twisted — if also slightly familiar and slow.
Murky Truths and Murky Waters Collide in the Compelling 1899: Review
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The Pitch: Several years ago, German creative/romantic partners Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar made their mark with Netflix’s sci-fi/thriller series Dark. Centered around “A missing child [who] sets four families on a frantic hunt for answers as they unearth a mind-bending mystery that spans three generations,” it was heavily…
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Murky Truths and Murky Waters Collide in the Compelling 1899: Review
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The best of the best from psych-rock icons King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard’s 10 Best Songs
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King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are nothing if not eclectic, as their ever-changing creative palette evokes everyone from Can and Frank Zappa to P.M. Dawn and Slayer. Having released nearly two dozen studio LPs since forming in 2010, they’re also one of the most prolific acts of all time.…
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King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard’s 10 Best Songs
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The band took over production duties and delivered a sonically diverse album.
50 Years Ago, Black Sabbath Pushed Heavy Metal Forward with Vol. 4
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It’s difficult to overstate how quickly Black Sabbath became the undisputed kings of heavy metal. Formed in 1968, the quartet took less than four years to put out three of the most celebrated LPs in the genre’s history — sequentially, Black Sabbath, Paranoid, and Master of Reality — and play…
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50 Years Ago, Black Sabbath Pushed Heavy Metal Forward with Vol. 4
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s sixth film anticipated the country’s contemporary cultural divide while drawing from the past.
10 Years Ago, The Master Foreshadowed the Mess of American Politics
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Much has been written about the meanings and intentions of Paul Thomas Anderson’s artfully enigmatic The Master. Upon its September 2012 release, the movie was largely perceived as being inspired by — if not directly based on — the life, teachings, and practices of L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology. Anderson…
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10 Years Ago, The Master Foreshadowed the Mess of American Politics
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