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We understand your skepticism completely. Yoga is a discipline that strives for the physical and mental well-being of its practicioners. It is the complete antithesis of hard rock and heavy metal, a music and culture that readily embraces headbanging and moshing...

Most of us already know that life isn't about rainbows and unicorns. Nope. You can fall to your death sliding down a rainbow. You can get gored by a unicorn having a bad day. Life can be very sad, ugly and violent. And these 15 crime-inspired songs capture the essence of some of the worst people in history...

Hardcore will never die. It continues to mutate and take on new characteristics, but it's never going away. And this list of 10 new hardcore bands you need to hear now is undeniable evidence of that. There's a shortlist of things these bands have in common...

Although it's been two years since The Dillinger Escape Plan played their final show, fans are undeniably still excited for anything new they can get their hands on. The band's first two albums, Calculating Infinity and Miss Machine, are celebrating their 20th and 15th anniversaries this year and to go along with it they're getting vinyl reissues. Read More: ‘Birds Of P... Read More ...

In the press release that accompanies the new album from Dana Point, California, unit Seizures, the band make a statement that their goal was to create a document that “sounded like us and where we live.” We had no idea that Dana Point—located in sunny Orange County—was a de facto war zone.  Today we’re premie...

Metal and pop music often feel so far removed from each other. But when heavy bands give their take on mainstream hits, the results are often really fun. Most metalheads are highly opposed to the bubblegum dance beats that dominate the tracks...

Austrian poet Ingeborg Bachmann once wrote, “I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.” In irony’s cruel thrust, Bachmann would later be rescued from a bedroom fire, but perish at the hands of doctors who were unaware of the substance abuse problems she had developed. That quote is...

Photographer: Stephen Odom The Dillinger Escape Plan performed their three final shows from Dec. 27 to Dec. 29 at New York City's Terminal 5. On the final night of the progressive hardcore group's three-day sold out residency, they played a massive 19-song setlist as their farewell, as well as performed some epic balcony stunts. Their final enco ...

The Dillinger Escape Plan played their final show, ever, last night at New York City's Terminal 5. Watch videos from their goodbye set below. Read more: The Dillinger Escape Plan crush the first of their three final shows—watch The show marked the final night of the progressive hardcore group's three-day sold out residency at Terminal 5. They played ...

The Dillinger Escape Plan are going out with a bang, completely crushing the first of their three final shows last night, Dec. 27, at New York City's Terminal 5. Faith No More singer Mike Patton even joined the band for a blistering five-song set to start things off—watch it all below! Read mo... Read More ...

It's all over now: For two decades, the Dillinger Escape Plan tore down the seemingly exclusionary walls separating various music genres to create a furious synergy of their own design. While they routinely took metal and hardcore to new levels of extremity over the course of six albums and several EPs, Dillinger were the dictionary definition of danger when it came to live gigs, simultaneously en

If you thought the Dillinger Escape Plan's songs couldn't get more powerful, here's proof they can. Get ready to be in awe over frontman Greg Puciato's isolated vocals from "Limerent Death,"​ off the band's final studio album Dissociation. Puciato shared the version d ...

After Brexit, death, taxes and Reading Festival occurring on the bank holiday weekend at the end of August are the only certainties in the U.K. these days. Starting in 1989, the festival can accommodate up to 90,000 people. It’s the summertime staple that marks the end of the outdoor live music season for many fans. This ...

After 20 years of being a band, Friday, Dec. 29 will be the Dillinger Escape Plan’s final show, to be held at New York’s Terminal 5 venue. Opening the show are Code Orange and Daughters. Dillinger released a statement about the show’s importance to them recently: "For me, in terms of shows, New York has always been one city on a short list of them where every Dillinger show felt like a homeco

Earl Maneein, a violinist featured on the Dillinger Escape Plan's Dissociation, premiered his heavy metal violin concerto Dependent Arising this past weekend in Phoenix, AZ. Read More: 7 classical covers of your favorite songs The unique metal-meets-classical piece was performed by Rachel Barton Pine and the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra, as conducted by Tito Muñoz. Maneein ...

The Dillinger Escape Plan have announced their sixth album, Dissociation, is likely to be their last. Read more: The Dillinger Escape Plan’s Ben Weinman announces Party Smasher’s new global partnership The album, which is due out Oct. 14, will releas ...

In our new episode of "10 Things You Didn't Know," the Dillinger Escape Plan basically  just troll us for two minutes. But that's okay. We still like it when they rip our faces off at their shows. "Those are three things you didn't know about Dillinger Escape Plan. The rest you'll... Read More ...

In an interview with Rockpit, Lamb Of God's Mark Morton has confirmed that Greg Puciato (The Dillinger Escape Plan) and Chino Moreno (Deftones) both feature on the band's upcoming record, VII: Sturm Und Drang. Puciato appears on "Torches," while Moreno appears on "Embers." Read more: Lamb Of God s... Read More ... Read More ...

Killer Be Killed, the new super side project featuring Max Cavalera (Soulfly), Greg Puciato (the Dillinger Escape Plan), Troy Sanders (Mastodon) and Dave Elitch (ex-the Mars Volta), will release their debut album on May 13 (North America), May 9 (Europe) and May 12 (UK). The upc ...

NK, who round out their live lineup with Matt Fazzi and Isaac Bolivar from Happy Body Slow Brain, recently recorded a series of "Garage Tapes." Volume 1 featuring "Kings" debuted last week. Today, exclusively on APTV, you can catch the second volume of the series, featuring "X It Out."  The live audio of bo ...