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This isn’t your garage band’s origin story. The musical moniker of Swiss-American Manuel Gagneux, Zeal & Ardor, was founded as an experiment. While living in New York, as an exercise to stay creative, he asked 4chan (the wholly anonymous forums, where anything goes — including conspiracy theorists and unchecked bigotry, a “cesspool,” as Gagneux offers […]

Whitechapel helped the spookiest time of the year draw to a close with their latest album, Kin, released October 29. Prior to the album’s release, the band also dropped a music video for the single “Orphan,” preceded by “A Bloodsoaked Symphony” and “Lost Boy.” While the Halloween season is officially being over, Whitechapel still have […]

Although hardcore is often considered a more simplistic style of aggressive music, bands have broken that mold by breeding offshoot subgenres with unique approaches. As the ’90s metallic hardcore movement developed, many took a more technical approach and began experimenting with every piece of their sound, leading to the entire mathcore movement. Like the songs themselves, […]

Is imitation a form of flattery? Or is it simply annoying? That’s what some bands and a lot of fans have to consider when faced with album artwork that looked a little too close for comfort. Call it homage, a tribute or straight-up theft, here are nine times when bands were accused of copying album […]

Djent is a relatively new genre built by many incredible bands. While it’s become a standard part of metal now, it wouldn’t be as common without a handful of acts who pushed it to the mainstream. Sure, the earliest djent bands cite Meshuggah as inspiration for its formation, but without Volumes, Periphery, SikTh and others, […]

Metal has come a long way across the past two decades. From breaking away from the ’90s nü-metal boom into the new wave of American heavy metal and the shift to metalcore, deathcore and hardcore taking over once that scene started to fizzle out, there have been a ton of developments from bands both old […]

Soundtracks are an important part of movies, but given they mostly want to appeal to a wide audience, metal is often left out of the film industry. When a heavy band does make it into a movie, it’s something fans celebrate for years to come, even if the majority of the movie’s audience doesn’t always […]

In a bit of underground music news that’s somehow not a Hard Times article, Swedish prog-metal innovators Meshuggah have offered a tongue-in-cheek apology for inciting the rapid-paced, highly repetitive metal sub-genre known as djent. Read more: Here’s Lil Uzi Vert moshing at a deathcore show As pointed out by Revolver, Meshuggah guitarist Mårten Hagström recently […]

Mastodon have come out victorious: The band won the Grammy for Best Metal Performance for “Sultan's Curse.” Mastodon were nominated alongside August Burns Red's “Invisible Enemy,” Body Count's “Black Hoodie,” Code Orange's “Forever” and Meshuggah's “Clockworks.” Read more: Avenged Sevenfold prefer a rock nomination to metal at the Grammys “Sultan's Curse” is taken from the band's 2017 album […]

For years, “the big four” (Anthrax, Metallica, Megadeth and Slayer) have dominated the Best Metal Performance category of the Grammys. Other legendary bands that repeatedly make the nominees list include Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and Slipknot. Even for the upcoming 2018 Grammys, Mastodon has been chosen, yet again, for the category. Every year, metal nominations […]

Few bands can legitimately claim to have spearheaded an entire movement in music, let alone a genre all its own. Meshuggah can. Read more: Megadeth announce summer tour with Meshuggah, Tesseract, Lillake If you enjoy bands such as Periphery or Tesseract, Animals As Leaders or Monuments, you have Meshuggah to thank. It was the late ‘80s, […]

Megadeth have revealed a North American summer tour with support from Meshuggah, Tesseract and Lillake. Check out the cities and dates below. Read More: Megadeth video game invites you to fight the ‘Invasion’ AP previously covered Megadeth's upcoming U.S. fall tour with Scorpions. It looks like the band will be hitting the road hard this […]

Meshuggah are known for being relentlessly heavy, and even after 27 years of earth-shattering riffs, they have no plans to turn the volume down any time soon. “We still feel there is so much we can do within this framework that we are,” drummer Tomas Haake told Metal Wani. “We're not completely free. We can't […]

This year has already been a whirlwind of great metal releases but the second half of 2016 looks like it’s going to pack just as much of a punch as the first. Here are a few albums you should be looking forward to throughout the coming months. 16 — Lifespan Of A Moth July 15 […]

It’s no secret that vocalists tend to take center stage—not only on the actual stage but basically everywhere else too. So we’re going to give the frontman a break for once and focus on the musician who is always pushed to the back—literally. For those of you who simply can’t get enough of the double […]

The internet truly never fails to impress, surprise and amuse its inhabitants, and here's yet another example of all three. Youtuber Pete Cottrell has created his own version of Meshuggah's “Straws Pulled At Random” using only a guitar and sugary snacks. The recreation is titled “MeSugar,” pun completely intended. Check out the video below—I dare you […]

Extreme metal outfit Meshuggah have shared their performance of “Do Not Look Down” from the upcoming live DVD, The Ophidian Trek. You can check out the live video below, and leave us a comment with your thoughts. In light of the band's 25th anniversary since the recording of their debut EP, they are releaseing The Ophidian Trek (a live […]

Between The Buried And Me will be hitting the road in support of Meshuggah this summer. Meshuggah will be celebrating their 25 year anniversary and fans can vote online to help decide the band's setlist. Voting will close tomorrow, April 2. The full list of tour dates can be seen below. 06/06/14 The Wiltern – […]

Everyone Dies In Utah +//- (Polarities) While an argument could always be made that the world doesn’t ever really need another band like Everyone Dies In Utah (or an album title like +//- (Polarities), for that matter), some significantly redeeming qualities can be found on the Texas post-hardcore band’s second album. Take “Simply Me//2,” for […]

Meshuggah Koloss Those that have followed Swedish extreme-metal band Meshuggah’s career will no doubt be enthralled by their latest opus, Koloss. It’s every bit as epic, heavy and serpentine as the other albums in their swelling discography. The trouble is, not much sets this new album apart from their career benchmarks, like 2002’s Nothing or […]