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Downtown Manhattan, New Year's Eve, 2000. (I miss those particular fairy wings the most.)

Band Submissions Open For DAYS OF THE DEAD FEST 2017

Band Submissions Open For DAYS OF THE DEAD FEST 2017

Halloween may be about putting on a costume and trick or treating around your city block, but in Red Deer, AB it’s about so much more. The rumours in the area describe a mass pilgrimage, a collective gathering from across Alberta and beyond, a zombie mosh pit coming alive. Are the rumours true…? Well during the Days of The Dead Fest, a Heavy…

The Sludgelord Premiere SLAGDUSTER’s ‘Peeping Ron’

 Isolation has most certainly bred inspiration in the shape of SLAGDUSTER. Hailing from Grand Forks, B.C, the band is name after a slang term local to their area for a piece of machinery that was used in the mines over a hundred years ago.

“We are the only four musicians in our small town driven to form a progressive metal band.” says vocalist Shane Sherman.

Inspired by such giants as Goijira.…

#NewMusic: Britney Spears – “Mood Ring” (Produced by DJ Mustard)

It’s Britney bitch and Mustard on the beat hoe! After a couple of weeks of releasing what’s hailed as her best album in almost a decade, Glory, Britney Spears still has more new music to release. Being teased since 2015 in many interviews by DJ Mustard, he and Brit team up for the slow R&B banger titled “Mood Ring.” Dealing with up and down emotions of a relationship, “Mood Ring” was produced by…

CELESTIAL RUIN Premiere New Track ‘Sense of Exile’ via SkullsnBones; New EP ‘Pandora’ May 20th

Horror Photography Combining a heavenly destruction of heavy riffs with beautiful melodies, Vancouver, BC’s European influenced symphonic metal band  CELESTIAL RUIN create catchy, singable and epic tunes that draw on lyrical themes of fantasy and horror, plus sometimes implying deeper meanings or just celebrating the subject matter at hand. Their new EP ‘Pandora‘ is set for release on May 20th to…

April 16 & 22 – Toronto – Semi-Finals – Wacken Metal Battle Canada – One Band To Rule Them All!

 WACKEN METAL BATTLE CANADA is proud to announce the Prairie Finalon April 16th at Distortion in Calgary, AB for this year’s 2016 national competition to send one independent metal talent to the world stage at Wacken Open Air in Wacken, Germany, which holds an attendance of over 80,000 metalheads from around the world. After battle rounds in Toronto, London, Hamilton and Ottawa during the months…